Old jokes are the best.(News)

The Daily Mail (London, England) | April 16, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: Compiled by Charles Legge

QUESTION What is considered the earliest surviving joke? THE world's oldest joke book is called Philogelos (The Laughter Lover), a collection of 265 gags in Greek, put together in the 4th century AD by a pair of jokers called Hierocles and Philagrius.

Doctors, men with bad breath, eunuchs, barbers, men with hernias, bald men and shady fortune-tellers all come in for ridicule, and many of the jokes can still raise a smile today.

There's a direct ancestor of Monty Python's 'dead parrot' sketch, where a man complains ...

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