Jokes are difficult to pull off with generational and cultural differences...

My favorite part of visiting family is staying up late at night talking.

Last night at the dinner table at about 10 PM, Yai announced she had a joke to tell us.

Yai: Ok. I have a joke.
Maria: Oooh!
Yai: A long time ago in a small village in Greece, there was a donkey...
[Maria and Steve erupt with laughter]
Yai: What's so funny?
Steve: Jokes don't usually start like that. They're usually about something racist or sexist or gross, not small villages in Greece.

Yai finished her joke and had to explain the punch line because we didn't get it.

Steve decided to share a more modern joke about three hungry guys who go to a stranger's farm asking for food. The farmer lets them pick whatever they want as long as they show him before they leave. The first guy comes back with grapes. The farmer says, "you can have them but you have to shove them up your butt."

Here's the end of the joke. Yai needed some explanation too.

Generation gaps. Such a pain.



Telling Dirty Jokes With Yai from Maria F on Vimeo.