18 Ancient Jokes That Are Still Shockingly Funny Today

These jokes have held up better in hundreds of years than Seinfeld has in 20.
18 Ancient Jokes That Are Still Shockingly Funny Today

We can use any number of adjectives to describe our ancestors: innovative, dumb, horny, prude, violent, enlightened, close-minded, dead.

One thing they rarely get credit for is being humorous. Because, as you're about to find out, those sexless, orgy-proned, warring, eggheads could actually be really funny.

From the Facetiae by Poggio Bracciolini: In Florence, a young woman, somewhat of a simpleton, was on the point of delivering a baby. She had long been
RIDDLE ME THIS: WHAT HANGSATA MAN'STHIGHAND WANTSTOPOKE THE HOLE THAT IT'SOFTEN POKED BEFORE? AKEY CRACKED COM OLDEST JOKES FROMBRITAIN.CIRCA 9OO AD,
Something which has never occurred since time immemorial, a young woman did not fart in her husband's embrace, And you know what else? Somebody stati
Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? n his tail. Jn his tongue. yours, if you talk of tails: Whose tongue? and so farewell! What, with MY t
TROLLING GRAMMAR NAZIS... in the 1800s Published in 1802, (self-proclaimed) Lord Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones contained no punctuati
A MISOGYNIST PAID HIS LAST RESPECTS AT THE TOMB OF HIS DEAD WIFE. WHEN SOMEONE ASKED HIM, WHO HAS GONE TO REST? HE REPLIED: ME, NOW THAT I'M ALONE.
In John Tobin's The Honeymoon, Rolando reverses his anti-marriage stance to wed Zamora because she's angel. To which sassy Volante an quips: Ay, so
In the 14th century fabliau Le Sentier Battu, a beardless knight was paying court to a queen when she asked if he had fathered any children. The knigh
The Roman poet Martial (c. AD 40- C. AD 103) writes about an awful dinner he attended. The host Zoilus insults his guests and feeds them scraps, leavi
A gentleman taking his leave of his mistress said, I kiss your hands and your feet. She answered, Forget not, I pray, the station between. -Wits F
A witty young student sold his books when he was short of money. He then wrote to his father: Congratulate me, father, I am already making money from
LIGHTINGI FARTS FUNNY AS FAR BACK AS THE 18TH CENTURY: I'th' nt'rim. fond of mischief telling, The rainbow-goddess flies to Helen: Most modern farts I
The Satyricon depicts an illicit affair between an older man and the youthful son of his host. The son at first rebuffs his advances: Either you go to
A hump-backed laywer named Galba was pleading Caesar a case before Augustus and he kept saying, Set me straight if you find any fault Augustus retor
IN LYSISTRATA BY ARISTOPHANES, THE WOMEN OF GREECE GO ON A SEX STRIKE TO FORCE THE MEN TO END THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR. THE TITULAR CHARACTER MUST TRY TO
How do you entertain a bored dunno, pharaoh? how? You sail boatload of a young fishing women dressed only in nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh t
(n a recent episode of Family Guy, the family dog defends bimself for stealing a wheel of cheese. A defense attorney wants to excuse Brian's crimes be
Meanwhile in Rome. Hi there, random Say.... Uhm, hi there, you sure provincial guy! look Emperor an awful Augustus. lot like me... Is anything up? Any

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