Who made knock- knock jokes?

Answer 1

William Shakespeare created the Knock-Knock joke. The first recorded use was in Act two of his famous play wright, Macbeth. After the murder of king Duncan, a drunken scottish man knocks on the door of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The joke was in the exact same format but written in early Modern English. Shakespeare often threw in low-brow humor in his plays to captivate the audience. If the plays got boring, the audience would loose interest resulting in the loss of his reputation and money.

Answer 2

The Knock Knock joke , or gnoona gnoona joke as it was originally called , was devised by Henndrick Driedler , a successful first world war stand-up comedian . It is said that he invented the joke whilst trying to return to his deaf landlady's lodgings . Each time he knocked on the door , the landlady would ask who was there , he would say Herr Driedler , at one point after she thought he had said Hair Dryer he realized the potential humor in the situation and sat outside writing down other jokes until the end of the war .

'why did the chicken cross the road' is credited to an Irishman - Seamus O'Reilly who actually carried out scientific experiments to find out why his chicken crossed the road - after three hard years he concluded that it was indeed to get to the other side . However, at his lecture on the subject ( Birmingham 1897 ) his peers fell about laughing and so , after much deep thought , he re-invented his paper as a joke , which has become the classic we all know and love . His descendants live a life of luxury , living off the royalties of this single joke .