Jokes that have made people laugh for thousands of years
Shameless plug: a few months ago I was frustrated by a similar article's lack of jokes and compiled some funny jokes from antiquity:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28468098" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28468098</a><p>A favorite:<p><pre><code>  A provincial man has come to Rome, and walking on the streets was drawing everyone's attention, as he was a real double of the emperor Augustus. The emperor, having brought him to the palace, looks at him and then asks: "Tell me, young man, did your mother come to Rome anytime?" The reply was: "She never did. But my father frequently was here."</code></pre>