Even With Jokes There Is Nothing New Under The Sun

This following joke is supposedly very funny, It topped a poll after more than 100,000 people around the world cast their vote on 40,000 jokes. Here it is:

I have doubts that it is really the world’s funniest joke, it’s a matter of taste I suppose. But, even with jokes nothing is new.

A joke going back to the 1950s was very similar and was featured in a sketch for a BBC radio show called the Goon Show. It was written by the great Spike Milligan and featured Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine.

This is how that sketch went:

It really does seem that in life there is nothing new under the sun. The Bible said as much in Ecclesiastes 1:9 – “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”

Shakespeare agreed in his Sonnet 59

If it’s true that nothing is new, I wonder why we keep repeating the same mistakes, the same wars, the same conflicts, the same neglect, the same … well everything. Will we ever learn? Perhaps history can give us the answers.

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