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If jokes told by dads are known as Dad Jokes, what do we call all the other types of jokes?
A roundup of the corniest, crowd-favorite dad jokes that had everyone laughing (or groaning) the most!
Dad jokes are a form of corny joke telling that involves a teller – the dad – and an audience, which allows him to assert his patriarchal privilege in a playful way, bringing people closer ...
The practice, Kalbaugh wrote, was “one of the great traditions of fatherhood worth preserving.” The term stayed remarkably dormant until the internet age: The first entry in Urban Dictionary ...
The term dad joke is credited to a June 20, 1987, editorial in the Gettysburg Times. Writer Jim Kalbaugh praised fathers’ telling of groan-inducing jokes to their children – or, importantly ...
It might be best to think of the dad joke not as a kind of joke but as a kind of performance, one that involves a teller – the dad – and an audience: his kids, friends of his kids, his spouse.