Tell and Create Knock-Knock Jokes

2. How to Tell
and Make Your Own
Knock-Knock Jokes
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9. Did you get the joke?
(get it, for example? …for Eggsample!)
The pun says one thing, but really means another.
Here is some history about Knock-Knock Jokes…

10. Knock-Knock Jokes may well have been the first
joke you heard or told to someone else.
The very famous William Shakespeare’s, Macbeth,
includes a knock-knock comic skit between a
character and some off-stage knocks1.
The jokes are very popular with people in many
countries, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland,
France, Belgium, Australia, the United States, and
Canada.
The people from the countries of Brazil, India, and
Germany do not find the jokes as popular.

11. Some History:
The Knock-Knock dates from 1936 or earlier.
No exact date is known.
The joke is made up of a short conversation
between a person telling the joke and a person
responding to it.
How it works:
1. The person telling the joke says to the other
person, “Knock-Knock.” The other person
replies, “Who’s there?” to the statement. The
person telling the joke introduces a name or an
object which will become part of the “pun” of
the joke.
2. The joke punch line is the pun. A pun is a play
on words or the punch line which makes us
laugh and want to tell our own joke.

12. Let’s try another joke:

19. How to tell a Knock-Knock Joke yourself (follow
these steps):
1. You think of an object or name.
2. You say, ”Knock-Knock!”
3. They say, “Who’s there?”
4. You say your object or name.
5. They repeat the name or object + say, “who?”
6. You repeat the object or name and tell the rest of
the joke or pun.

20. For Example:
1. You think of Mikey.
2. You say, ”Knock-Knock!”
3. They say, “Who’s there?”
4. You say, “Mikey.”
5. They say, “Mikey, who?”
6. You say, “Mikey won’t fit in the door!”
(get it, my key (Mikey) won’t fit in the door!)

27. Now, it’s your turn (practice with a friend):
1. You think of an object or name.
2. You say, ”Knock-Knock!”
3. They say, “Who’s there?”
4. You say your object or name.
5. They repeat the name or object + say, “who?”
6. You repeat the object or name and tell the rest of
the joke or pun.

28. Here’s another joke to practice:

35. Choose Your Own Ending Game:
Pick an ending that you think is funny for this
Knock-Knock Joke.
Knock-Knock!
Who’s there?
Cash.
Cash who?
(Now, pick the funniest ending from the list below.
Say the joke to yourself or out loud with each
ending and see which you like the best.)
1. I have plenty of cash, thanks.
2. How much will it cost?
3. You don’t accept my check?
4. No thanks, but I’d like some peanuts!

36. Choose Your Own Ending Game:
(Self-check) Actually, the funniest ending is…
4. No thanks, but I’d like some peanuts!
Review:
Knock-Knock!
Who’s there?
Cash.
Cash who?
No thanks, but I’d like some peanuts!
(get it, cashews or peanuts? )

43. Try it for real:
Record your Knock-Knock Joke online in VoiceThread
http://tiny.cc/7nc5cw or have another person record
you telling the joke with a video camera or smartphone
and then add your link to the Google Doc at the
Knock-Knock Joke Community Collection! (or simply type
the joke.) http://tiny.cc/phc5cw
You can also try the Audacity recorder:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
It will be more fun to have another person present, so you
can tell your joke and have them reply to it. (It will be
fun! You might want to practice by yourself, first.)
You can come back to this slide to perform this test.

44. Now for one last joke:

51. Thanks for learning about Knock-Knock Jokes!
Now, have fun with your friends, telling your new
jokes and discovering others online:
AzKidsNet, 172 Knock Knock Jokes (using first
names). www.azkidsnet.com/JSknockjoke.htm
Indian Child, Knock Knock Jokes.
www.indianchild.com/knock_knock_jokes1.htm

52. References:
1 William Shakespeare, Macbeth. Act II, scene iii
2 Retrieved April 3, 2012, from Wikipedia Website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/knock-knock_joke
© Cyndee Tovsen, University of Colorado-Denver,
ILT 6710, Spring 2012