They Say the Joke is Dead

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution points to a New York Times reports that the Joke is Dead.


However, as much as the Internet may haved killed the joke around the office, this is not true for those who swing a hammer; where the need for the spoken form is still pronounced, especially on the long tedious days. It also makes for a great ground breaker. The summer after law school while doing some labor for my Dad's company I was left one day with a fellow I'd had only just met. Once we started working, he looked at me and asked, "Okay, which jokes do you NOT want me to tell?" After telling him I'd pass on the racial ones, he went right into a round of equally offensive, but alternatively themed jokes. Bad as they were, they made the time pass quicker.