Where can I find a very large list of jokes?

October 23, 2007 2:05 PM

Where can I find a very large list of jokes?

I've been looking to acquire a (free) list of jokes for several weeks now, without success. I've tried all the google searches I can imagine and I've drawn a blank. The best I've been able to do is find a bunch of websites with a few hundred jokes on each. Unfortunately, this isn't sufficient for my purposes. Ideally, I'd like thousands of jokes in one text document to facilitate easy parsing and analysis. Can anyone point me to something I can download? It really would make my day!

posted by subverted to writing & language (7 comments total)

If you already have several websites with hundreds of jokes each, just copy and paste those into a text file--there's your thousands of jokes.

Also, googling the phrase "thousands of jokes" turns up lots of websites claiming to have same.
posted by jejune at 2:35 PM on October 23, 2007

If you're willing to scrape multiple pages, there are about 800 jokebook-style "bad" jokes at Rinkworks.
posted by pocams at 3:37 PM on October 23, 2007

The 'fortune' package on Debian contains over 15,000 fortunes in the base files. Many of them are jokes.
posted by Malor at 3:40 PM on October 23, 2007

Oops, sorry, you want the 'fortune' package PLUS the 'fortunes' package.... the basic fortune package comes with far fewer.
posted by Malor at 3:41 PM on October 23, 2007

fortune - now there's a command I haven't used in a long, long time. thank you for the smile Malor.
posted by seawallrunner at 9:55 PM on October 23, 2007

http://lotsofjokes.com of course!
posted by ijoyner at 6:16 AM on October 24, 2007

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/
posted by Gooberoo at 8:12 AM on October 24, 2007