'A groan is still a reaction' ⬇️ How to write and tell the best Christmas cracker jokes
Christmas is a family occasion, so a good cracker joke needs to be understood by multiple generations , and surely there is none greater than the Christmas cracker joke. Most other elements of the cracker are absolutely fine – there’s a mildly pleasing explosion, a hat that immediately rips on any non-tiny head, and a toy that is never as good as the one the person opposite you got. All parts of a pleasantly average festive experience.
“Why did Santa have to wear a helmet in his workshop?” you deliver with all the gravitas you can muster. “Elf and safety.” Then you tuck into your sprouts knowing that, if you’d made a few slightly different choices, you’d be on Live At The Apollo. , so a good cracker joke needs to be understood by multiple generations. That means simple language, wordplay and nothing too intellectual, esoteric or blue. For obvious reasons, a five-year-old, 40-year-old and 85-year-old aren’t going to crack up at the same thing, but with generation-straddling hilarity out of reach, crackers achieve the next best thing: generation-straddling mediocrity.
Before kids properly “get” jokes, crackers provide a lesson in the grammar of old-school gags, a formal prompt to laugh. They’ll often laugh their heads off however underwhelming the punchline, because they’ve been cued up: brace yourself Junior, hilarity is coming. The nice thing for a parent, of course, is that a kid deliberately laughing at something completely rubbish is in itself very funny.
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