Kids love to laugh at jokes that, to us at least, appear to make absolutely no sense. In this sketch a man writes a joke that is so funny it is fatal to anyone who reads or hears it. The joke is eventually acquired by the British Army and used as a weapon against the Nazis.
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Of all the things we hand down to our children, our sense of humor is the one thing that will never lose its value, particularly if it’s coiled around them like a Monty Python, squeezing out every last chuckle.
