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minus-squarebeckerist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·11 months agoFor anyone else wanting to know more about 3000+ year old humor, please check out Irving Finkel on YouTube. He’s hilarious, intelligent, spunky and keeps his talks interesting. I can kill an hour listening to him before I realize it. One example: https://youtu.be/hDA6oIiQS4E
minus-squareflathead@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoJust came back to say thanks for this link. Fairly sure I’m heading down a deep rabbit hole. Also, ancient humor doesn’t seem to have had much subtlety, but some of the ideas are timeless - "An envious landlord sees how happy his tenants are. So he evicts them all." https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/538490/worlds-oldest-jokebook
For anyone else wanting to know more about 3000+ year old humor, please check out Irving Finkel on YouTube. He’s hilarious, intelligent, spunky and keeps his talks interesting. I can kill an hour listening to him before I realize it.
One example: https://youtu.be/hDA6oIiQS4E
Just came back to say thanks for this link. Fairly sure I’m heading down a deep rabbit hole.
Also, ancient humor doesn’t seem to have had much subtlety, but some of the ideas are timeless -
"An envious landlord sees how happy his tenants are.
So he evicts them all."
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/538490/worlds-oldest-jokebook