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This article is about research on the relative humour in different jokes and cultures. For the Monty Python sketch about jokes as military weapons, see The Funniest Joke in the World.

The "world's funniest joke" is a term used by Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 to summarize one of the results of his research. For his experiment, namedLaughLab, he created a website where people could rate and submit jokes.^[1] Purposes of the research included discovering the joke that had the widest appeal and understanding among different cultures, demographics and countries.^{[citation needed]}

The History Channel eventually hosted a special on the subject.^{[citation needed]}

The jokes

The winning joke, which was later found to be based on a 1951 Goon Show sketch by Spike Milligan,^[2] was submitted by Gurpal Gosal of Manchester:

Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps, "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says "Calm down. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a gun shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says "OK, now what?"^[3]

During World War II, Ernest Scribbler, a British manufacturer of jokes (Michael Palin), creates the funniest joke in the world. It is so funny that he promptly dies laughing. His mother (Eric Idle) walks in, finds the note on the body, and reads it, at first believing it to be a suicide note, and also dies laughing. A very brave Scotland Yard inspector (Graham Chapman) tells a reporter that he plans to retrieve the joke, with the playing of very sombre music on gramophone records and the chanting of laments by fellow policemen to create a depressing mood in the event he should read the joke. He goes in, but also dies laughing.

The British Army test the joke on Salisbury Plain against a rifleman (Terry Jones), who snickers and falls dead on the range, then translate it into German. Each translator only translates one word of the joke, so as not to be killed by reading the whole joke. One of them sees two words of the joke and has to spend a few weeks in hospital. This German version is over 60,000 times more powerful than Britain's great pre-war joke (a reference to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his speech concerning the Munich Agreement). The nonsensical German translation is used for the first time on 8 July 1944 in the Ardennes, causing German soldiers to fall down dead from laughter:

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!^[1]

The joke contains a number of nonsensical pseudo-German words, and does not translate into anything meaningful.

Another scene is of the joke being used in open warfare is shown, with Tommies running through an open field amid artillery fire shouting the joke at the Germans, who die laughing in response. Afterward, a German field hospital is shown with uncontrollably laughing German soldiers in blood-stained bandages, being attended to by medics with stoppered ears.

Very Very Funny Jokes