The World's Funniest Joke

CNN recently did an article on a study that established the World's funniest joke, and here it is:

Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesnt seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed over. The other guy takes out his cell phone and calls the emergency services.

He gasps "My freind is dead! What can I do?"
The Operator says: "Calm Down, I can help. First, make sure he is dead."

There is silence, then a gunshot is heard, the guy comes back on the phone and says: "OK, now what."

Not too bad at all. The reason why this was found to be the funniest joke in the World is because it does not have any cultural barriers that prevent it from being funny to different cultures. So there may be a joke about Paris Hilton that will make you laugh more, but it would not rank on this list because people from Uganda will not understand it.

Of course, if someone was to play devil's advocate, they would say that these results are biased by the fact that the study was done online, so really this is just "the funniest written joke among people that spend time on the internet."


Here is a link to the actual article if anyone is interested: http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/10/03/joke.funniest/index.html