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Topic: Russian Jokes in English
Posted: January 13 2017 at 16:16

Not every Russian joke is funny to the Western or Eastern ears, and vice versa - but in most cases our senses of funny undoubtedly coincide.

Let's start with this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes

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Posted: January 14 2017 at 07:08

A few years ago, I saw on TV a documentary about this kind of jokes, and I remember this one:

In a gulag, a guy hears his cellmates saying numbers to each other and bursting in laugh: "37! - Oh, yeah! Ha ha ha! Very good one!"
Rather puzzled, he asks the other guys what they are doing: "Well, we're in the gulag for having made political jokes and, since we don't want to spend more years here, we created a code: we gave each joke a number to identify them. So, when we want to tell a political joke, we just have to say a number
- Oh yeah? That simple?! Can I try it, too?
- Of course!
- Well... So, what about... 14?!"
The two other guys look at him, then they look at each other, then they look at the walls...
"What? It's not a funny joke?
- Er... In fact, it is a funny joke, but... You don't tell it very well..."

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Posted: January 14 2017 at 09:06

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Posted: January 14 2017 at 10:18

not exactly a joke, but the stories by Daniil Kharms, for example this one

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Posted: January 14 2017 at 10:54

"....3rd from left, Nikita Kruschev..."

Fantastic!

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Posted: January 14 2017 at 17:42

CPicard wrote:

A few years ago, I saw on TV a documentary about this kind of jokes, and I remember this one:

In a gulag, a guy hears his cellmates saying numbers to each other and bursting in laugh: "37! - Oh, yeah! Ha ha ha! Very good one!"
Rather puzzled, he asks the other guys what they are doing: "Well, we're in the gulag for having made political jokes and, since we don't want to spend more years here, we created a code: we gave each joke a number to identify them. So, when we want to tell a political joke, we just have to say a number
- Oh yeah? That simple?! Can I try it, too?
- Of course!
- Well... So, what about... 14?!"
The two other guys look at him, then they look at each other, then they look at the walls...
"What? It's not a funny joke?
- Er... In fact, it is a funny joke, but... You don't tell it very well..."

So he then says "72" and they fall to the floor, rolling about with laughter for almost an hour.

"Why is that so funny?" He asks.

"We've never heard that one before".

Edited by Dean - January 14 2017 at 17:44

What?

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