[telescope115]

I used to have a series of paperback books:

The Irish Joke Book

The Italian Joke Book

The Black Joke Book

The Polish Joke Book

The Jewish Joke Book.

They were compiled by someone called “Blanche Knott”.

I don’t have them anymore. Everyone gets so darn offended at every little thing anymore…And then there’s Blazing Saddles….. at least they haven’t been outlawed that yet.

[Verginius Rufus]

There are other variations on this kind of joke. In Ireland they have County Kerry jokes. In Texas they have Aggie jokes. I was once told that they have East Frisian jokes in Europe (but that was many years ago). In North Carolina they have Wolfpack jokes (at the expense of NCSU).

Similar jokes were already told in ancient Greece (making fun of the people of particular city-states).

[Leaning Right]

I once had a book called “A Treasury of Ethnic Humor”. Sadly, I lost it in one of my moves.

Anyway, I’m of Hungarian descent. So after I bought the book I immediately went to the Hungarian section. To my surprise, there was only one joke.

Q. How do you make a Hungarian omelette?
A. First steal two eggs.

😀

[Albion Wilde]

Everyone gets so darn offended at every little thing anymore…And then there’s Blazing Saddles….. at least they haven’t been outlawed that yet.

I think the Dean Martin Show "roasts" are still around on YouTube, from the 60s or 70s, where all his many ethnic guest comedians would insult each other, and everyone laughed. That is how America was supposed to be. I think even Ronald Reagan may have been roasted on his show. Check it out! Definitely Don Rickles did many numbers on roastees.