From cheesy classics to intentionally terrible zingers, we’ve rounded up the very b est bad jokes out there. Bookmark this ...

When do Mainers tell dad jokes? When they become apparent. For Father's Day, we talk to Maine dads, comics and others about what a dad joke is, why dads tell them and why we love to hate them.

Dad jokes are a form of corny joke telling that involves a teller – the dad – and an audience, which allows him to assert his patriarchal privilege in a playful way, bringing people closer ...

It might be best to think of the dad joke not as a kind of joke but as a kind of performance, one that involves a teller – the dad – and an audience: his kids, friends of his kids, his spouse.

In addition to being “safe,” dad jokes are generally bad, lame, groan-inducing and so forth. But so are plenty of other jokes – all you have to do is turn on the TV and watch a sitcom to find them. It ...

The term dad joke is credited to a June 20, 1987, editorial in the Gettysburg Times. Writer Jim Kalbaugh praised fathers’ telling of groan-inducing jokes to their children – or, importantly ...