Season 2 · Episode 64
History of Knock-Knock Jokes
Comedy History 101
April 15, 201934m 5s
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Show Notes
Knock knock? Who’s there? It’s time for the history of knock-knock jokes… Knock-knock jokes are the classic question and answer kid joke. But did you know that its origin goes all the way back to Shakespeare’s Macbeth? Well it does. In the episode we dive into the joke’s origin - and how Rowen and Martin’s Laugh In - helped it’s comeback into pop culture.
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