“The Funniest Joke In The World“ is a sketch from Monty Pythons Flying Circus wherein a manufacturer of jokes accidentally writes down on a piece of paper The Funniest Joke In the World and promptly dies from laughter. The Joke soon catches the attention of the British Army who were fighting the Germans during WWII, and was translated into German by translating one word of the joke at a time. One translator saw two words of the joke and had to be hospitalized for a few weeks. The Joke was used on the battlefield causing massive losses for the Germans. The Germans then tried to use another joke as a counter attack which was ineffective. In 1945, when peace broke out, the Geneva Convention outlawed joke warfare and one of the surviving copies of the joke was buried in “The Tomb of The Unknown Joke“. The joke, in faux-German, reads :“Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput&
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