Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff
Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff... Da-Dum Tish
This is a meta-joke. This joke makes fun of jokes that end with the jokester making the noise of two drum beats and then a cymbal (which is sometimes called a rim-shot). Jokes that end in that manner often have a weak punchline, and this joke doesn't have a traditional punchline at all.
I suppose that if two drums and a cymbal really fell off a cliff in the correct manner they could make that noise, however this joke is not really that funny.
This is a hilourious joke to use at the end of someone else's bad joke.
ReplyDeleteI agree to that, but then the humor is derived from the fact that the jokester is making fun of the person that told the original joke - it is like saying "your joke was so bad that no-one even understood that it was actually a joke, so I am going to point that fact out to everyone"
DeleteTom Scott & Matt Grey tried this, and put the result up on YouTube (way back in 2009). It did indeed sound like a rimshot.
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