The World’s Oldest Joke Book Review…

I have boys and one thing that you can always count on with little boys (or at least mine) is that someone is always telling a joke. It’s great though because even times when you are feeling down the little guys know how to turn your frown upside down. 

We were recently contacted and asked to review the book, The World’s Oldest Joke book. I don’t normally do book reviews simply because I can never seem to get through a book in a timely manner. I love to read, but with 5 boys, 2 pets, a blog and all of the other stuff I’m always signing myself up to do, I just don’t have a lot of time to read. (I wish there were more hours in a day!) 

In The World’s Oldest Joke Book you will find jokes that have being told for centuries. These are jokes that were translated from what historians believe is the oldest joke book in the world. You will find jokes from absurd situations, to farting and foolishness (wow, farting has been funny since the beginning, and here we just thought it was our crazy family! ha ha!)

Just to give you an idea of some of the jokes you can expect to read in this book…

-An idiot hears that a crow can live for up to 200 years, 

So he buys one to see if it’s true. 

-An Abderite meets a cunuch who’s chatting with a woman, and asks him if this is his wife. When he’s told the eunuchs can’t have wives, the Abderite says, “My mistake-it must be your daughter.”

There are over 200 wisecracks and absurd one-liners in The World’s Oldest Joke Book.

If I’m going to be completely honest I must say that the jokes were a little stupid. However, when reading some of them to my young boys they laughed. I think it depends on your sense of humor, however this would probably make a great gift for the men in our lives that tell terrible jokes!