00:00Have you always wondered the origin of the plain old joke?
00:03I'm sure those early cave dwellers had some real knee slappers,
00:08comparing their mother-in-law to a woolly mammoth or something like that.
00:11But nothing was ever written down, so that era of history is lost to us.
00:17Archaeologists in the Middle East uncovered clay tablets from that time
00:20that contained the earliest written evidence of jokes.
00:23They were written in Sumerian, so it only makes sense that the oldest recorded language
00:27also has the oldest recorded jokes.
00:30So, the first known joke. Here we go.
00:32Something which has never occurred since time immemorial.
00:36A young woman did not fart in her husband's lap.
00:40There you have it. Now, maybe in context it worked better.
00:43Always wondered. Stream it now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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