One of the earliest examples of a joke is Sumerian (c. 4500-1900 BC), and it features a vegetable: "Pickle Usi-watar: Come on, flip the pickle, Igešauš. You're not gonna regret it. The payoff is huge.
[Igešauš hesitantly picks up the chisel and turns the pickle over. The pickle has Usi-watar's face on it] I turned myself into a pickle, Igešauš! Boom! Big reveal: I'm a pickle. What do you think about that? I turned myself into a pickle! W-what are you just staring at me for, shesh. I turned myself into a pickle, Igešauš!". The humour of it is probably related to the Sumer way of life and has been lost, but the words remain.[1]
One of the earliest examples of a joke is Sumerian (c. 4500-1900 BC), and it features a vegetable: "Pickle Usi-watar: Come on, flip the pickle, Igešauš. You're not gonna regret it. The payoff is huge. [Igešauš hesitantly picks up the chisel and turns the pickle over. The pickle has Usi-watar's face on it] I turned myself into a pickle, Igešauš! Boom! Big reveal: I'm a pickle. What do you think about that? I turned myself into a pickle! W-what are you just staring at me for, shesh. I turned myself into a pickle, Igešauš!". The humour of it is probably related to the Sumer way of life and has been lost, but the words remain.[1]
That got a belly laugh out of me, bravo