Some folks say that the knock-knock joke dates all the way back to Shakespeare, but such a sophisticated origin really only makes them that much less palatable. Dear Bard, how far we’ve fallen. Thankfully, at this point, no one mistakes knock-knock jokes for high art. Still, they don’t seem to go away. But with such history, we can at least see the tracings of learned…
Ariel Schudson examines the ‘new old school’ appeal of this modern action icon.
