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submitted 10 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] beckerist@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For anyone else wanting to know more about 3000+ year old humor, please check out Irving Finkel on YouTube. He's hilarious, intelligent, spunky and keeps his talks interesting. I can kill an hour listening to him before I realize it.

One example: https://youtu.be/hDA6oIiQS4E

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Just came back to say thanks for this link. Fairly sure I'm heading down a deep rabbit hole.

Also, ancient humor doesn't seem to have had much subtlety, but some of the ideas are timeless -

"An envious landlord sees how happy his tenants are.

So he evicts them all."

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/538490/worlds-oldest-jokebook