World's funniest joke comes from a UK Indian
Posted on Saturday, October 05 @ 18:14:29 EDT by SweenyTod
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LONDON: Predictably enough, the world's funniest joke - across countries, continents and cultural confusion, has been told by a Sikh, whose simplistic humour is rooted in rural Phagwara and nurtured by the gritty life of northern England.
On Thursday, Gurpal Gossal, 31, a second-generation Indian immigrant from Manchester via Punjab, was told the most serious truth of them all - that his submission was officially the funniest of 40,000 jokes from a staggering 70 countries.
"I was delighted, I could spend a lifetime dining out on that joke," the poker-faced Gossal told TNN, "now my wife will have to believe I'm funny - for three years, she's struggled not to laugh".
However, Wiseman's laughlab happily regurgitates Gossal's joke, which goes like this:
Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his cellphone and calls the emergency services.
He gasps: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says: "Calm down, I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: "OK, now what?"
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