Bar jokes are short stories that aim to amuse the audience with a punchline. The most common theme is “a man walks into a bar,” with jokes featuring animals or objects. Some popular examples include “a man walks into a bar and says ‘ouch'” and “a horse enters a bar, and the bartender says ‘why the long face?'” Some bar jokes are offensive, while others make fun of the genre itself. Each generation adapts the jokes to suit the current audience.
A joke is a short attempt at wit or an extended story that concludes with a punchline. The desired goal is the amusement of the audience, and the joke can take many forms. Indeed there are prescribed themes on which they can rotate and one of these is the famous or infamous joke.
The bar joke often begins with “A man walks into a bar…” This can vary and can include a great many different types of people, animals or strange animated objects that walk into a bar. There are many jokes that start out like this, and most people know some of them particularly well.
The first of these is “A man walks into a bar and says “Ouch!” A simple joke, but in the story it can be very funny if the audience understands it. Another well-known joke is the following: “A horse enters a bar. The bartender says: “Why the long face?”
These two simple bar jokes are part of the common repertoire and can get a laugh if the audience hasn’t heard them. Other bar jokes can’t bear to be repeated as they are also often labeled as sexist, racist, or otherwise offensive.
One of the popular long lines often adapted to the “walk into a bar” scenario is as follows:
A rope enters a bar. The bartender gives him an angry look and says, “Hey, we don’t serve bows here.” The string leaves, puts on a costume and comes back. Again the bartender kicks him out of the bar and says, “We don’t serve strings here!” The rope lies outside and gets tied in a knot because he desperately wants a drink. Then he starts fraying the edges of the knot so that the top of his head looks like hair. At this point, the string feels like it’s done enough of a transformation to get a drink at the bar. When the rope enters the bar, the bartender looks at him suspiciously and says, “Hey, aren’t you that rope?” The string replies, “No, frayed knot.”
Another form of bar joke that has become increasingly popular is the meta-joke. This is a joke that makes fun of a particular form, such as the bar joke or the clown joke. One mocking of this genre is as follows:
A rabbi, a minister and an imam walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Is this some kind of joke?” The joke here is that typically, the bar joke here would become some probably anti-religious reference. Instead, the bartender is simply amazed that this particular group, often from the bar’s joke set, all show up together.
Most people know a few bar jokes and might have a favorite. Many have been told for decades, but each generation tends to modernize the joke and adapt it to the current audience.
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