40 Funny, Dumb, Old-School Style Jokes To Take You Back To A Time Before We Got Our Humor From Memes

I went to a wedding this weekend and the father of the bride’s speech was filled with dumb, but nevertheless funny “old-school” style jokes like “If you ever want to make sure remember your anniversary, just forget it once.”

It brought me back to a time when dads, uncles, and even kids shared humor, not through texting memes to each other, or even emailing the latest Ebaumsworld fail video, but through telling corny jokes with kinda clumsy setups.

This then led me down the nostalgia rabbit hole of seeing if I could remember some old jokes, and I stumbled upon a Reddit thread that pretty much had all of the best puns and stupid jokes I heard or told as a kid.

1. Recently, one Redditor asked users to share their go-to ‘old school’ style joke;

2. From quick puns, to long set ups, here’s what they delivered…

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Jason

Jason Mustian

Jason is a Webby winning, Short-Award losing humor writer and businessman. He lives in Texas with his amazing wife and four sometimes amazing kids.