Shakespeare jokes
William Shakespeare is having a grand celebration for the 400th anniversary of his death. Shakespeare is literally everywhere at the moment, and it’s not just in the hundreds of words he helped push into the English language. We have Shakespeare’s Guide to Poisoning Plants, Shakespeare Insults, Shakespeare’s Guide to Parenting and even Shakespeare’ Guide to winning at Scrabble.
I wish I could write a serious post sufficiently literary to mark the occasion, but in the world of Shakespeare, I am a bit of a failure. The only Shakespeare I read was Macbeth and that only because it was on the GCSE English reading list. My thoughts at the time of reading Shakespeare was probably something along the lines of: “He has a good turn of phrase every now and then, but I think sometimes he could express himself a bit more clearly”
I took up Economics, I was no loss to the department of English Literature.
I do like the odd Shakespeare joke though. I hope William would approve, apparently he had quite a sense of humour, but many of his jokes are lost on modern audiences because of changes in the English accent. Probably a good job because some of his jokes could be a little ribald for a GCSE English class.
One of my all time favourite jokes – probably because I heard it told by Peter Kay, with his typical infectious enthusiasm.
William Shakespeare walks into a pub, but the landlord says “Get out, you’re bard!”
Knock Knock Jokes
Knock, Knock.
Who’s there?
Noah.
Noah who?
Noah’s the winter of our discontent. (more…)