Bad Jokes Department: Banana Peel Humour
Created | Updated Mar 2, 2024
Bad Jokes Department: Banana Peel Humour
Somebody on Twitter groused, 'Did anybody ever actually slip on a banana peel?' This question but reveals, once again, the exquisite temporal provincialism of the self-involved denizens of the 21st Century. Of course they did: from its introduction to pushcarts of the late 19th Century and for several decades after, the banana, with its discardable (but recyclable) outer covering was responsible for many a fall.
Yes, but why did people find this humorous? Because the person who fell could be a pompous nincompoop with a mincing gait whom everybody would like to see lose their composure. Hence the jokes.
Anyway, it's all the fault of Sam the Banana Man, the gangster who first imported bananas in bulk to the US. Yes, he was also responsible for destabilising governments in Central America, thus giving rise to the term banana republic. Now go and read the bad joke. Ed.
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