• The Black Joke, sometimes spelled Black Joak, was a bawdy song heard in London around 1730. William Hogarth referenced the song in the Tavern Scene of...
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    The third HMS Black Joke was probably built in Baltimore in 1824, becoming the Brazilian slave ship Henriquetta. The Royal Navy captured her in September...
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  • Black Joke, after an English song of the same name. Black Joke (1720 ship), made three voyages as a slave ship between 1764 and 1767. HMS Black Joke (1827)...
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    Tregear's Black Jokes was a collection of more than 40 anti-black racist cartoons, published in London by bookseller Gabriel Shear Tregear in the 1830s...
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  • Black Joke (Japanese: ブラック・ジョーク, Hepburn: Burakku Jōku) is a Japanese manga series written by Rintaro Koike and illustrated by Masayuki Taguchi. It was...
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  • Black Joke was a ship built in 1720 or 1743. She appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in the issue for 1764. Between 1764 and 1767 she made three complete...
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    A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant...
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    gallows jokes depends on the context of the joke: whether the joke is being told by the threatened person themselves or by someone else. Black comedy has...
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  • saxophone, giving a special touch to Issei Noro's compositions. Tracks like "Black Joke" and "Space Road" became staples of future performances. The album was...
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  • His Majesty's hired armed lugger Black Joke was a lugger of ten 12-pounder carronades and 10892⁄94 tons burthen that entered into the service of the Royal...
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    naval use after capture; USS Nightingale and HMS Black Joke were examples of such vessels. HMS Black Joke had a notable career in Royal Navy service and...
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    Killing Joke are an English rock band formed in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in 1979 by Jaz Coleman (vocals, keyboards), Paul Ferguson (drums), Geordie...
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  • Batman: The Killing Joke is a 1988 DC Comics one-shot graphic novel featuring the characters Batman and the Joker written by Alan Moore and illustrated...
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  • of joke types. Anti-humor Bar joke Bellman joke Black comedy Blonde joke British humour Callback Conditional joke Cringe comedy Cruel jokes Dad joke Dead...
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  • alongside Robert Carlyle in Carla's Song and in 2002 he played the role of Black Joke Chief in the Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York. Kiernan lends his...
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  • Australian contemporary folk band formed in 1993. Their second album Black Joke (1996) was nominated at the ARIA Music Awards of 1997 for Best World Music...
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  • Dead baby jokes are a joke cycle reflecting dark comedy. The joke is presented in riddle form, beginning with a what question and concluded with a grotesque...
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  • A Polish joke is an English-language ethnic joke deriding Polish people, based on derogatory stereotypes. The Polish joke belongs in the category of conditional...
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  • The hired armed cutter Black Joke was a cutter that served the Royal Navy from 12 January 1795 to 19 October 1801. In 1799 she was renamed Suworow, and...
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  • appear in Russian humor. Russian joke culture includes a series of categories with fixed settings and characters. Russian jokes treat topics found everywhere...
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  • A conditional joke is a joke meant for a qualified audience only. If a joke requires from the audience a certain knowledge or a belief, then Ted Cohen...
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    Ribaldry (redirect from Dirty joke)
    evening standup comedy show, and his blue midnight show, which included a joke about impregnating his wife "right through the old midnight trampoline" (her...
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  • elephant joke is a joke cycle, almost always an absurd riddle or conundrum and often a sequence of such, that involves an elephant. Elephant jokes were a...
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  • dazzling verbosity, Act I ends at the pinnacle of sophisticated whimsy, a black joke of fiendish ingenuity. Holden, Stephen (November 21, 1985). "New Sondheim...
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    An ethnic joke is a remark aiming at humor relating to an ethnic, racial or cultural group, often referring to an ethnic stereotype of the group in question...
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    both sides, Black, acting as judge, made the final decision as to which is more evil. In 2008, Black hosted History of the Joke with Lewis Black, a 2-hour...
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  • lightness of killing in a story something that he likes and compares it to a black joke taken to the extreme. Kodaka's characters tend to have amnesia as it allows...
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    Almozawla April Fools' Day List of April Fools' Day jokes Berners Street hoax Bingo Shooting Device Black fax Caltech–MIT rivalry Candid Camera Capping stunt...
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    three major categories of jokes in the book of interviews, Without Humor We Would Have Committed Suicide: self-humor, black humor, and humor about food...
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    also mentions the rhyme, one of the characters in the first volume, The Black Joke, having been a pirate and a slaver. In 2007, a collection of short stories...
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