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What was the first joke you ever told?

Asked by Josh Board

March 19, 2008

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James Esper

From San Diego (Car Detailing)

I used to like telling jokes and funny stories when I was little. At some point kids go from running around making sounds they think are funny to trying to tell jokes. The first I tried was probably at summer camp at Palomar. I was eight years old and doing a stand-up routine. It’s not going to be that funny, but it was “What did one dead frog say to the other dead frog? Croak.”

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Jonathan Imes

From Mission Valley (Navy)

My first joke had to be an Aggie joke. I’m from Texas. I lived there until I was 18 and came out in the Navy. So we’d make fun of Texas A&M, the Aggies. I was probably around eight at the time, and the joke was “How do you confuse an Aggie? Put him in a round room and tell him to find a corner.

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Gretchen Brunette

From Mission Valley (Waitress)

I remember I was really young. Maybe around eight, I don’t know. It wasn’t a joke as much as it was part of a routine. I had heard Rita Rudner and repeated something she said. I didn’t even realize what it meant until years later. I would say, “I don’t plan on growing old gracefully. I’m gonna get face lifts until my ears meet.”

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Mal Hall

From San Diego (Comedian)

I actually didn’t tell jokes when I was a kid. So, I’d have to say the first joke I told was a few years ago, when I was 20. I would joke about my eyebrows. As a kid, I wasn’t the class clown. I was a shy nerd. I saw Eddie Murphy’s Raw, and I wanted to make people laugh. So I tell jokes now, but I didn’t back then.

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Kevin Ball

From Pacific Beach (Student)

I don’t know if I really remember. Oh, yeah, I remember one my friends and I used to say all the time...we’d say, “Do you want to hear a dirty joke? A boy fell in the mud. Do you want to hear a clean joke? That boy took a shower.” When you’re a kid, you think stuff like that’s funny.

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Cookie Randolph

From Encinitas (Radio Personality)

I never told a joke well, but I cracked up my fellow third-graders with my impression of John F. Kennedy. After Dallas, I shrewdly moved to Barney Fife. I also do a killer Ben Franklin. If you closed your eyes you’d swear he was in the room.

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