Chickens Telling Elephant Jokes! No, Really! — Randy’s Chicken Blog

Then, in 2016, I started writing the first version of this blog. Those early posts contained a lot of those pictures. Eventually, I started adding dialogue balloons. And somehow that morphed into elephant jokes. Yep, elephant jokes. Nope. I don’t know why either. But all my followers seemed to like them at the time. All twelve of them!

If you’re under a certain age, it’s possible you’re ignorant of the elephant joke phenomenon. Elephant jokes have definitely waxed and waned in popularity since they first made their appearance in the late 1950’s. At the moment they don’t rank up there with ANC earbuds, TikTok or Taylor Swift. But it’s only a matter of time before they make their comeback.

All you need to know about elephant jokes is that they have two elements: One, elephants; Two, absurdity. That’s all it takes. Almost everybody realizes that they don’t approach the pinnacle of sophisticated humor. There are, of course, the select few who understand that elephant jokes are simply beyond the comprehension of the common rabble.

Isaac Asimov, in his book, Isaac Asimov’s Treasury of Humor, suggested that elephant jokes would remain forever “favorites of youngsters and of unsophisticated adults.”  He failed to mention anything about young or unsophisticated chickens. Yet Snowball kept the Coop 2 hens in stitches. Especially Angitou.

From deep in the files of blog posts past, here are Snowball, Angitou, and some elephant jokes!