In a sense, lexicon is a booklength version of that sketch, done in. Translation of the funniest joke in the world from the. Baker as truly one of the best books ever written on comedycomedians. Tests on salisbury plain confirmed the jokes devastating effectiveness at a range of up to fifty yards. He is a bespectacled, weedy lancecorporal terry jones. The funniest joke in the world monty python wiki fandom. Germans decide to come up with a joke of their own the vjoke. Its some madeup gibberish words mixed in with some real german words in a proper.
The funniest joke in the world is a monty python comedy sketch. The complete monty pythons flying circus 16 ton megaset. The funniest joke in the world monty pythons flying circus. For research into international humour, see worlds funniest joke. Following the death of monty pythons beloved terry jones, take a look. The funniest joke in the world is the most frequent title used to refer to a monty pythons flying circus comedy sketch, also known by two other phrases that appear within it, joke warfare and killer joke. Monty pythons flying circus is the new late programme on sunday night. The german translation of the joke in the sketch is made of various meaningless, germansounding nonce words. Lexicon, a thriller by max barry the washington post. During ww2, the british inadvertently create a killerjoke. It isnt long before they decide to create a german version of the joke.
What is the english translation of the the funniest joke. The women trying to stop worlds beauty products washing up on. The years ago, there was a monty python sketch about the worlds funniest joke. The funniest joke in the world does not translate into english. The funniest joke in the world also joke warfare and killer joke is a monty python comedy sketch. All media animation western anime comic book fan fics film game literature. Scientists spent years studying over 40,000 jokes and ranking each of them through careful testing and monitoring of the brain when the test subject read the joke. What is the english translation of the the funniest joke in the world from the monty python flying circus comedy sketch in 1969 trivia question questions answer answers. The funniest joke in the world monty pythons flying.
Monty python aside, british scientists have actually found the funniest joke in the world. Camera zooms through slit to distance where a solitary figure is standing on the windswept plain. Secondly, nobody was lying when they said pythons deranged tone owed a great deal to spike milligan, its that. Monty pythons flying circus s 1 e 1 recap tv tropes. Monty pythons flying circus, a bbc comedy series starring graham chapman, john cleese, eric idle, terry jones and michael palin with animation by terry.
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