Is ‘Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road’ just a Dumb-Joke?

Jokes are a great way of making the conversation interesting; they are sometimes incredibly funny and sometimes extremely lame. The ‘why did the chicken cross the road’ falls somewhere close to the latter category.

This extremely generic joke has become famous and almost iconic, despite being overly used and becoming somewhat redundant, it is still widely popular with the masses.

“Why did chicken cross the road “is a line that we have often heard, and it is a popular form of the joke that is also a riddle? The answer to the joke is a lame one ‘to get to the other side’ which shows that the whole logic behind the joke is its anti-humor quality. While the listener waits for a funny reply, it is instead given a straight face lame answer. The riddle made its first appearance in the 1847 edition of ‘The Knickerbocker,’ which is a New York City monthly magazine.The magazine had said that there are quips that seem like big conundrums until the actual answer is revealed and one such riddle is ‘Why did the chicken cross the road.’ It might sound like a complicated problem but the answer is a simple ‘to get to the other side.’

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