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The Best Knock-Knock Joke Ever

I’m posting this account of something that happened some years ago just because I happened to think of it. A little girl of seven or eight, who didn’t speak with perfect grammar, was telling the knock-knock joke that goes like this, with her doing the knock-knock part:

Knock knock
—Who’s there?
Banana
—Banana who?
Knock knock
—Who’s there?
Banana
—Banana who?
Knock knock
—Who’s there?
Banana
—Banana who?
Knock knock
—Who’s there?
Orange
—Orange who?
Orange you glad I didn’t say banana

But this is the way she told it, with the wildest sort of glee on the punch line:

Knock knock
—Who’s there?
Banana
—Banana who?
Knock knock
—Who’s there?
Banana
—Banana who?
Knock knock
—Who’s there?
Banana
—Banana who?
Knock knock
—Who’s there?
Orange
—Orange who?
Ain’t you glad I didn’t say banana!

She was more than pleased with the amount of very genuine laughter this produced.

Maclin Horton

13 responses to “The Best Knock-Knock Joke Ever”

  1. Anne-Marie

    My youngest used to tell that joke, but with apples instead of bananas, and ending with, “Orange! Isn’t it a good thing I didn’t say apple again?” She, too, was full of gleeful satisfaction at the laughter she generated.

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  2. jordan retro 4

    Life have happy and angry, shoes have bad and good. Everything have two sides. But we can choose favorable side,As we need to choose a pair of shoes as well.

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  3. Paul

    Sigh

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  4. antiaphrodite

    You do get some very interesting spam, Sir.

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  5. Janet

    Darn! Now I’m going to have to spend the whole day trying to figure out which one of my shoes is bad.
    AMDG

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  6. Mac

    I have a worse problem: my shoes are ok, but one of my feet is bad. I wonder if it’s angry.

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  7. antiaphrodite

    LOLZ, y’all!

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  8. Mac

    Does tumblr support audio clips? I think we need to hear you say “y’all” in what I presume would be some degree of Filipino accent.

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  9. antiaphrodite

    Yep, there’s a template set aside for audio clips. But y’all will be disappointed–all you’ll get is a very fake generic American accent :-/

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  10. abenk

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  11. Mac

    abonk

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  12. Janet

    Well, that might be the best benk-bonk joke ever, but only because it’s probably the only one.
    AMDG

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  13. Mac

    I don’t think it even rises to the level of “joke.” I should just flag these things as spam, which makes them disappear, but some mean impulse makes me edit them to remove the links which are their purpose for being, and possibly add a snide remark.

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