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 ...

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.

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 ...