Dumb jokes will always be popular because they make the reader feel superior, wrote Joey Adams…

Mr Adams devotes a chapter to dumb jokes with examples like these: He saw a moose head hanging on the wall. He asked the host, “Can I go into the next room and see the rest of it?”

And: The farmer ordered a prefabricated house and after using it for a week, he wrote the company a letter: This dern new-fangled hosue you done sent me ain’t no good. In fact, it’s plumb lousy. I think mebbe I put it up wrong. Leastways, everytime I step out the front door, I fall off the roof!

And: Which reminds me of the Sam Levenson story about the woman who confessed to the psychiatrist that her husband blew smoke rings during the day. The psychiatrist said, “Lots of men do that.”

“But,” said the woman, “my husband doesn’t smoke.”

And another dumb joke: “Whats’ that you have in your hand?”asked Taffy of her roommate.

“It’s a sleeping pill,” was the answer.

“Well, don’t wake it up!”

Finally: “I was so surprised when I heard it,” he screamed, “I couldn’t believe my eyes!”

Mr Adams concludes: So, you don’t have to be smart to amount to anything in this world – you can always inherit it!

-See Strictly for Laughs by Joey Adams. His other books include The Borscht Belt; Gags to Riches; How to Make and Tell Jokes for All Occasions; and Cindy and I.