M odern authoritarian humor has its roots in the Jewish struggle for emancipation in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. The Jews, being outsiders, had developed a folklore ironically exposing the hypocrisy, falsehood, and hollowness of political elites, their stupid or brutal bureaucratic minions, and society at large.
But everyone once in a while, you encounter a few stupid jokes so jaw-droppingly ridiculous, they transcend their own awfulness to reach a higher plane of funny. Try as you may not to laugh, we are all, on some level, powerless to a funny joke that revels in their own cringe-iness. To prove it, we've rounded up 250 of our favorites.
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