Knock-knock jokes are question-and-answer jokes, playing off of words typically ending with a pun. For example:
person 1: Knock-knock
person 2: Who's there?
person 1: banana
person 2: banana who?
person 1: Knock-knock
person 2: Who's there?
person 1: banana
person 2: banana who?
person 1: Knock-knock
person 2: Who's there?
person 1: banana
person 2: banana who?
person 1: Knock-knock
person 2: Who's there?
person 1: orange
person 2: orange who?
person 1: orange you glad I didn't say banana?
the word "orange" is a "play on words" for "aren't"
There is a reason I have chosen this particular joke as an example - I just didn't know if I should include it before or at the end of my post. It was Jenna's first joke - well sort of.
I had just returned home to find her in her room perhaps just a few months before she turned three.
"Hi, Sweetie," I said.
"Knock-knock" she said.
I played along, "Who's there?"
She was silent for a minute and then continued.
"Knock-knock" she said again.
Once again, I played along, "Who's there?"
This went on for about five or six rounds. I stopped playing along.
Finally, she looks up at me and says, "Banana" and I started laughing. I had no idea that she was telling her first knock-knock joke until that very moment. She just looked at me like, "I just don't get why that is supposed to be funny". I thought it was funny because she had told it incorrectly, but also proud of her accomplishment that she had attempted to tell me a joke.
I made this page for her scrapbook:
Daylight Savings Time is a HORRIBLE joke.
