The Back Room: 16 Dreadful Jokes

Why not? They are funny, mostly?

I believe I was something of a pioneer, telling jokes on public radio, and it was a problem for many listeners, hearing barroom humor on a radio network associated with classical music and award-winning journalism, so I tried to class up the jokes by putting them out in rhymed meter. This made them more acceptable to some people and not to others, but…