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What is the world's oldest joke? I mean the earliest known story, set of affairs, or action that people spread to other people in order to cause the receivers to be amused.

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According to Paul McDonald at the University of Wolverhampton, it's this 3900-year-old one, from 1900BC in Sumeria:

Something which has never occurred since time immemorial: a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.

(I don't get it either!)