The Backstory: The history of jokes
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
We all love to laugh, no matter when, where, or how we’ve lived. Amazingly, there are a handful of topics that have given us the giggles for at least 5,000 years. And a lot of them involve 6th-grade humor.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, got a question for you. What makes you laugh? Well, believe it or not, it's probably what people have |
| 0:05.3 | been laughing at for thousands of years. We think that over the millennia we've gotten more sophisticated, |
| 0:11.6 | smarter, and kinder in our humor, but guess what? |
| 0:15.0 | Wrong. |
| 0:16.0 | Turns out, sixth grade humor is timeless. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Patty Steele. |
| 0:20.0 | Get ready to roll your eyes when I tell you the first joke ever recorded from more than 4,500 years ago. |
| 0:27.0 | That's next on the backstory. |
| 0:29.0 | Last season, millions tuned into the betrayal podcast to hear a shocking story of deception. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm Andrea Gunning, and now we're sharing an all new story of betrayal. |
| 0:40.4 | Stacy thought she had the perfect husband, |
| 0:43.4 | doctor, father, family man. |
| 0:46.2 | It was the perfect cover for Justin Rutherford to hide behind. |
| 0:51.5 | They led me into the house and I mean it was like a movie. |
| 0:57.1 | He was sitting at our kitchen table. |
| 0:59.4 | The cops were guarding him. |
| 1:01.6 | Stacy learned how far her husband would go to save himself. |
| 1:07.0 | I slept with a loaded gun next to my bed. |
| 1:10.0 | You did not just say I wish he was dead. |
| 1:13.2 | He actually gave details and explained different scenarios |
| 1:17.1 | on how to kill him. |
| 1:18.7 | He to me is scarier than Jeffrey Dahmer. |
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