The best jokes ever told What makes a joke one of the best jokes of all time? Its inclusion on an arbitrary list according to one person’s tastes, of course. I mean, that’s just science!

One of the most talked about films this year is a tiny documentary that features a bunch of talking heads telling a variation of the same story. Sound boring?

Central New York favorite Doug Stanhope is among a who's who of comedians listing the 22 "greatest jokes ever told" for Esquire magazine. Janeane Garofalo picked a joke told to her by Al Franken.

The researchers, led by Professor Robert Dunbar, told a bunch of jokes to volunteers from the London School of Economics and asked them to rate each one. These were the ten best of the bunch.

The Greatest Joke Ever Told With Lewis Black Over the course of two hours, host Lewis Black, with the help of a few dozen fellow comedians, analyzes what makes jokes funny and looks at the ...

According to some of the funniest people on earth, these are the 50 most hilarious jokes of the last 12 months, whether they were told in nightclubs, on television or around a platter of fries at ...

Sir Clement Freud told this joke on the Telegraph World Cup Pubcast, describing it as the funniest on record. A professor investigating the psychology of humour had previously claimed the ...

Did Clement Freud tell the funniest joke ever told? Sir Clement Freud was famous for many things and at the heart of most of them was his incredible sense of humour. At the Daily Telegraph we were ...