Post Your Corniest Joke

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

55. My son, who is mildly autistic, has been known to tell this joke:

What's the most important thing in telling a joke?

"Timing"

Here's the thing. There are two ways to say the punchline. One is to say it over the obvious question some will ask ("I don't know, what's the most" -- "Timing!&quot The other is to wait a long beat, fifteen seconds or more, and then say, "Timing". Run through the two choices in your head, and you'll see why either one is genuinely hilarious.

At different times I've heard him do that joke each way, and it always gets a hearty laugh.

While not a corny joke, and I don't recall precisely the joke itself, my brother used to tell one that had some sort of mild obscenity as the punchline. So one time I was with him and he started telling the joke to a respectable woman that I could not possibly imagine it would be appropriate to tell this joke to. Before I had a stroke, it turned out my brother had a totally clean version of it to tell.

He's an excellent teller of jokes.