This first joke uses a word that is both relevant to the object, the banana and to what may happen (however unlikely this may be) to it, sunbathing.  As we all know before you eat a banana (and some other fruits of course) it is necessary to remove the outer covering called the peel.  We also know that if we stay in the sun too long our skin becomes burnt and the top layers of skin come off which is also known as peeling.  The common link between sunbathing and bananas is the work peel which is what makes this joke funny.

Q. Why don't bananas sunbathe?

A. Because they'd peel.

It is very unlikely that a dumb farm animal would go out at night, into town and visit somewhere that we humans would go.  This is therefore slightly funny (or strange) before even the punch line has been reached.  The punch line then delivers a play on the word movie by mixing it up with the noise that a cow makes.  This emphasized for those people dumb enough not to spot the joke by putting a dash “-“ between the “moo” and the end of the word.

Q. Where do cows go on a Saturday?

A. The moo-vies

This uses a simple principle of just telling something that is completely true and making it funny by using one or two extra words and changing a couple of others.  We all know that children never turn the lights out and that would brighten the home (because of the extra lights being on……..yes!!) so make it a question and answer, call it a joke and it suddenly becomes funny.

Q. Why is it true that children brighten the home?

A. Because they never turn the lights off.

Clever one this!  If you have ever played golf, in fact even if you only know a little bit about the game you will know that the best shot a golfer can do is called “a hole in one”.  This is when the golfer hits the ball from the tee (look it up!!!!) and the ball goes into the hole without hitting it again.  They don’t happen very often but they do happen sometimes and therefore can be joked about.  The phrase “hole in one” can also be interpreted as getting a hole in one of something.  This “something” is the key.  In this case the something is the golfers trousers and if he did get a hole in his trousers he would have to have a second pair of trousers otherwise ho would not be allowed in the club house after his round.  Clever stuff!!!!

Q. Why did the golfer wear two pairs of trousers?

A. In case he got a hole in one.

Another play on words which is completely lost if not read correctly Denise.  If the punch line is read as Pickled instead of Prickled then the complete point of the joke that links the Prickle with the hedgehog has gone.  See analysis of the joke about the cows going to the movies where the joke writer found it necessary to show clearly how the word should be read by splitting the word with a dash.  It could be that Denises big moment at the Christmas dinner table could have been saved if the joke writer had written the word as Prick-led.

Q. What do hedgehogs have for lunch?

A. Pricked onions

The old ones are the best and there is nothing as old as the chicken crossing the road joke.  This one is not too imaginative and really falls down because it is a turtle crossing the road.  Why a turtle?  A turtle is not very funny.  And can you imagine a chicken on holiday.  No!  Therefore not funny.

Q. Why did the turtle cross the road?

A. Because the chicken was on holiday.

Full of food and bored with telly on Boxing Day.