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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Post of the year and it ain't even close. Holy crap, I am stealing this for the rest of my life. Top shelf. |
The funniest joke I ever heard in my life was a foreskin joke. I don't necessarily know if it was the funniest just as a standalone joke. But the combination of setting, person who told it and timing was so epic. I'll set the stage.
It's Passover which is a quite somber Jewish Holiday. We are sitting at the dinner table with about 20 other relatives. As you eat the meal, there is a combination of prayers, reciting biblical readings etc.... (I do this for my mother, as I am not a practising Jew.)
Smack dab out of nowhere, in the middle of this whole thing, my Aunt Alice who is in her 80's at the time, chimes up in her smokers voice with the stereotypical North American Jewish accent.....
Her: "So... you all know why Jewish women like their men circumcised?"
Table: Silence, awkward stares.....
Her: She repeats it.
Somebody at the table: "Why Alice?"
Her: "Because Jewish women want 25% off of everything." And she starts cackling with this smokers cough.
It was one of the few times I actually started crying I was laughing so hard. As was the whole table. It was such a Mic drop moment.
I've heard the joke over the years quite a few times and chuckled. But the combination of inappropriate setting, 80 year old 4'11" grandmother and awkwardness was just absolutely perfect.