Perfecting the Art of the Knock-Knock Joke

Nov 30th 2009

This holiday weekend I taught Jonas a couple of Knock-Knock jokes.  At first, Hyphenated Husband thought I was being silly.  He figured Jonas wouldn’t get it.  But Jonas became enamored with them.  As soon as he had them down, he wanted to repeat them over and over again, until we finally had to say “Okay, save it for somebody else!”

Here he is doing the famous “OrangeYouGladIDidn’tSayBanana” joke.

And here he is doing his other favorite joke (equally, if not more funny…)

Now, as funny as these are, what’s even funnier is that now the kid thinks that EVERYTHING is a knock-knock joke.  Once he grew tired of these two, he’d start in with his own version.   Today the entire way home from Target, we heard this from the back seat:

Mama?

Yes, Jonas.

Knock, Knock!

Who’s There?

Car!

Car, Who?

Cars drive in the street!

and then…

Knock, Knock!

Who’s there?

Mama!

Mama, who?

Mama is a girl!

…and so on, and so forth, with every noun he could think of between here and Hillside.  Since he finds so much joy in these jokes, and he thinks he’s a regular Don Rickles now, I simply must get on these here internets and find him a few dozen more knock-knock jokes to beef up his act.  Otherwise, he’s gonna put me in the looney bin.

Anybody got any good knock-knock jokes for me to pass on to thigh-high comic?

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Knock knock.
Who's there?
Lettuce.
Lettuce who?
Lettuce in, it's _______ (the police, your parents, whoever)!

Oh my gosh he is so adorable!! I remember my oldest going through the knock,knock phase, I am curious how old the baby will be before it starts all over again.

Knock knock
Who's there
Mama of a 7 year old who still thinks knock knock jokes are the bees knees

That's adorable. When my brother was little, he would make up jokes like that, too, but totally lacking any sense. Like:

Knock Knock
Who's there
The chicken
The chicken who?
My shoes are red!!!

And then he would laugh hysterically. LOL

The first one's from my childhood, the rest are in newer and in current circulation (I too have a little one (3yo) who's into the knock knocks)...

Knock knock
Who's there?
Dwayne.
Dwayne who?
Dwayne the bathtub, I'm dwowning.

Knock knock
Who's there?
Annie.
Annie who?
Annie body home?

Knock knock
Who's there?
Yah.
Yah who?
What are you so excited about?

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Control Freak. Now *you* say "Control freak who?"

I love the interrupting cow one too!

You have such a lovely recorded voice. I hate the way I sound when I hear my voice on a video.

I am a big fan of this one, but little kids don't usually get it:

Knock knock!
Who's there?
Little old lady.
Little old lady who?
I didn't know you could yodel!

My 4-year-old's favourite jokes always have poo as the punchline. Like this:

Knock knock!
Who's there?
Santa Claus.
Santa Claus who?
Santa Claus pooed!

It gets tiresome after a while, I'll admit it.

My kids love this one:

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Interrupting Cow.
Interrupti--
MOO!

(followed, once they figure out the joke, by interrupting cat, interrupting duck, interrupting goat, on into infinity...)

Also:
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Tuba
Tuba who?
Tuba Toothpaste!

That's all I got. I love how he does the boohoo one! He IS hilarious. :)

Knock knock
Who's there?
Boo.
Boo who?
Well you don't have to cry about it!

When my niece was about 3, she would tell knock knock jokes, sort of. They always went something like:

Knock knock
Who's there?
Light bulb
Light bulb who?
Light bulb ON YO HAY-UD! (head)

Occassionally "someone" else would be "there," but it was always a member of the ON YO HAY-UD! family.

@whozat - Haa haa... the "boo-hoo" joke is the one in the second video. He's so enthusiastic about it too.