Rude Short Jokes

   Good turning 40 jokes are hard to come by. More often than not, riddles about people’s ages are lame, uncouth, and absolutely pointless in social settings. When it comes to finding good turning 40 jokes, you have to know what you are looking for and how to get it. To do this, you have to look at the anatomy of a good joke.

   To start off with, good jokes (especially 40th birthday jokes) need to involve a little bit of an intellectual play on the theme. Nobody will laugh at any jokes unless there is something that makes them think and tickles their funny bone. Long jokes are often good for this. The best long jokes, though, only turn out if the person telling them is a gifted storyteller. For this reason, the best jokes are short jokes. Anybody can tell a good short joke and the best short jokes ever leave a punch that sticks in the brain and the diaphragm (after all, if the joke sticks in the diaphragm, the laughs will keep coming).

Best Short Jokes Ever

   Enough about your anatomy, though—we want the anatomy of a good joke. So far, we’ve discovered that a good joke needs to be short; good turning 40 jokes, then, need to be short. As well, though, you have to avoid the lameness inherent in some of these. To get a good round of 40th birthday jokes, you can’t just rattle off the first pun that comes to your head. Puns are funny creatures. When they form the basis for riddles, they serve a valuable purpose. The answers for all riddles almost always include a bit of a play on words; in this way, the short nature of good riddles and the punny nature of the answer combine to make a very effective (and humorously affecting) puzzle. However, puns on their own are far from being the best short jokes. Ever slapping a sarcastic knee but never getting a genuine laugh, puns have their place—and believe us, it is not among good 40th birthday jokes.

   Rude short jokes (frequently about anatomy), unlike puns, often help reveal the anatomy of a good 40th birthday joke. Rude long jokes owe more in their payoff to their length rather than to their effect. Having good rude short jokes means knowing how far to trust your audience and how to keep crass and comic in separate categories. Because turning 40 jokes so often involve an understanding that the 40 year old victim of the jokes is experiencing a series of failings (to various degrees) in various body parts, functions, and hormones, rude short jokes, though almost the norm, need a fresh and clever side to keep the laughs coming. Rude short jokes are funny when your audience finds them funny; keep that in mind.

   In discussing the anatomy of good 40th birthday jokes, we have found a series of requirements. They need an intellectual play (such as a riddle—and remember, the answers for all riddles must be funny), they need to be short (some of the best short jokes ever are probably about turning 40), and always remember that rude short jokes can fit the bill if they are used carefully.