Best Jokes for Kids: So, a priest, a rabbi and a panda bear walk into a bar…..

I started a mental collection of jokes to tell my kids after 62 sessions of “Knock Knock” “Who’s there?” “Poo Poo Head!” threatened to implode my head. For the uneducated, let me explain: Poo Poo Head is not a funny Knock Knock joke. At least not after the 30th time.

Poo Poo Head can be a funny joke, just not a punchline. Once a friend gave my husband a magazine subscription for Christmas and had it mailed to ‘Mr. Logan Popohed’. For months not only did the magazine come to the Popohed home, several catalogs and special credit card offers were also delivered. This is a refined use of the Poo Poo Head joke and therefore much funnier than just a simple knock knock joke.

Comedy is a difficult skill to teach your children, but I warn you a good joke depository is imperative to their growth and development. Unless you want your kid to be that one guy at the party who wears an arrow on their head and calls it a ‘crazy gag’! You don’t want that and I don’t want that.

The trick when telling your kids new jokes is to keep them very simple so they’ll actually tell them correctly. There is very little more painful than sitting through several botched punchlines and laughing politely. It’s like a bad first date without the free meal. You also want to release your jokes in a measured way so that when you are can’t stand one more ‘Why did the chicken cross the road?’ (A= “Poo Poo Head!”) (Not funny!), you’ll have another in your holster to switch gears. Once you have a few jokes between you it’s easier to distract them with a bit of a ‘joke-off’.

Here are a few to get you started and I want to hear your kid’s best jokes and also their most annoying ones.

The Interrupting Cow joke I picked up at Fussy is maybe the best thing I’ve gotten out of the internet in the last 9 years. It’s even better than the fact that I can order pizza on the internet without ever going near a phone. You can hear Mrs Kennedy’s son share a few variations of the the Interrupting Cow joke here.

Knock Knock
Who’s There?
Interrupting Cow.
Interrupt….
MOO!

The Starfish Variation is also a HUGE favorite around here.

Knock Knock
Who’s There?
Interrupting Starfish.
Interruptin….
[Put your 'starfish-like' hand over the face of the victim.]
(I like to make a popping sound with my mouth when I do it. I’m hilarious!)

Pirates are often popular among young children, something about the freedom of the high seas and the constant threat of scurvy really speaks to kids.

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