A joke from ancient Imperial Rome ... Two fellows recognize each other on the busy streets of Rome: Craxus - Is that you, Melius? You must be a ghost! No no I heard you were dead! Melius - but it is me Melius, standing before you alive, breathing! Feel my arm you see? Graxus - I'm not convinced. The person who told me you are dead is much more reliable than you.
@@suckassmork2972 lol ... How would anyone know rumor and propaganda from fact in those days, aside from reputation for veracity in general. My sides ache.
Pretty sure the joke is that he's basically just calling Melius an untrustworthy and unreliable person. He'd rather trust someone else telling him Melius is dead than Melius himself telling him he's not... Even though that's ridiculous. Melius obviously has to be alive to be able to tell him.
We tend to think we are for far ahead the medieval people, far more advanced, almost a new evolutive subspecie...and yet we are telling practically the same jokes they did.
@@ericbrown621 we are the same as a species only the technology really evolved. Even the Society seems the same on its core, we still have our mass hysterias, our fanaticisms and our witch huntings.
Plutarch, in his Parallel Lives, recounts once that a rival of Cato once asked him 'Who is thy father?', to which Cato replied 'Your mother has made it far more difficult for you to answer that question.' For indeed, hers was not the most unsullied reputation.
@@treystephens6166 The way I have always heard it said is, for instance, perhaps setting up a new business. Do you go for a niche market that there might not be enough call for? Or something that is tried and tested like food, funeral parlours? Well, people have to eat to live, and people die. Not everyone has to have the latest expensive high fashion dog clothes. If it is a choice between a holiday or having the boiler fixed, then obviously the plumber gets the money. Thus there are more plumbers than holiday companies. The grass is more trodden into the ground on the path most frequently walked upon. Does that help? In relation to the example of sex, clearly he was suggesting his mother had no pubic hair because she had a lot of nookie. That's silly though as people don't stop having pubic hair because they have a lot of nookie. So I doubt many people uses the adage that way.
A joke written by Leonardo da Vinci: Two monks are travelling to a new monastery and stop by a tavern. The innkeeper offers them a small roasted chicken, for that was the only food left. A fat merchant sitting next to the monks steals their chicken saying "You are monks and you can't eat meat, so I'll be the one to eat the last chicken." The day after the monks and the merchant are travelling together and reach a river without a bridge. "I can't dirty my shoes, and you monks travel barefoot! You shall carry me on your shoulders to the other side!" And the monks agree. They reach the middle of the river with the fat merchant on their shoulders and they ask, "say, do you carry any coins with you?" The merchant replies, "Why of course! I'm a wealthy merchant after all." The monks immediately dump the man in the water. "We're sorry, but our code forbids us from carrying coins."
*Old Viking joke:* Björn was in a feud with his neighbour Thorfinn. One evening Björn assembles a group of friends and go to Thorfinn's farm to see what he is up to. B jörn climbs up onto Thorfinn's roof and spy through a small window. Suddenly a spear up through the hole stabs Björn in the eye. _"Is Thorfinn at home?"_ ask Björn's friends from below. Deadly wounded Björn answers: _"I don't know. But Thorfinn's _*_spear_*_ is at home!"_
That is actually a story from The Saga of Burnt Njal, from the fight that resulted in Gunnar’s death. When a Viking was dying, it was very admirable to make a great joke or compose a poem.
I absolutely love hearing jokes told throughout history. Humanity's sense of humor hasn't changed over many thousands of years, and if you want proof, look up Pompeii graffiti
The graffiti about those two guys being best bros forever makes me smile :y The graffiti in the Hagia Sophia makes me laugh too. For a long time people thought they were some kind of important runes, but they were finally translated as saying essentially "Halfdan was here"
Hardly safer than "Oh, yes, I remember. It was quite the topic in the barracks, as they were all commenting how surprised they were when each they witnessed it!"
The earliest recorded joke yet discovered was written in cuneiform on a clay tablet in Ur. It translates as, "Something occurred which has never happened before in the world. A young wife sat on her husband's lap and didn't fart."
@@beauwhitlock5034 Lol. Now you know the real reason why dogs are called man's best friend, rather than woman's best friend. They've been occasional roommates for ~40 thousand years. That's probably one of the unsung reasons why "man"kind bred them from wolves. To have a warm place to sleep when it was suddenly too cold in the cave, lol.
I'm expecting that we will discover a Neanderthal cave painting of Us having Little Ug pull his finger and blow torching Og and Little Og across the camp fire. Bet it will be discovered though that the first ever known joke was a dick joke...from Homo Erectus.
All I can say is, "The Miller's Tale." I remember reading this in college for the first time and cracking up, mainly because it was so damn disgustingly funny, even by today's standards.
I read it in high school and same. I couldn’t believe what I was reading and even told my English teacher. She was a stuffy old lady and didn’t want to hear it. Bitch, you gave me this book to read! You don’t want to hear about farting on a guy’s head?
I love these jokes because for me it shows that there was inherent intelligence and lots of thought put into them. These are the kind of wits born from observation as well as extensive understanding of their surroundings. In other words, glory to the ancestors!
@@bloodangel19 well yes they were for the most part fully developed Homo Sapiens Sapiens, our species cognitive abilities has evolved very little in the past 50.000 years. But we always like to think that we’re smarter than the ones before us, as it is far easier to see their errors, contrary to our own.
@@bloodangel19 on average, they probably had more accumulated knowledge of how everything works. Today's kids are so manipulated by social media and school propagandas.
8:22 that was gold! I love how these little quips have been kept in perpetuity so I thought they were so clever that they should write them down and here we are literally 1000 years later listening to them
Fave jokes: Q: 'Why does Edwood Woodward have so many 'D's in his name......A: 'Because if he didn't, he'd be called Ewoo Woowar'. Makes me laugh anyway!
I quite enjoyed some of the jokes in Simplicissimus Teutsch, written in 1668 about a boy, later man, adventuring through the 30-years war. The book has some mood swings, describing war crimes in chapter, and following them up with goody jokes in the next. It starts out with the protagonist being a boy, witnessing knights taking over his family's farm, raping the women, torturing the men to find out where the money is hidden, and eventually burning the place down with everyone inside, with him barely managing to escape and running into a hermit in the woods. The hermit asks him: - Whats is your name? - I don't know. - What does your mother call you? - What's a mother? - Who made your clothes? - My ma did! - This is your mother. What does she call you? - Rascal, goodfornothing, lazyass... - What does your father call you? - What's a father? - Who shares your mother's bed. - My Pops. - This is your father. What does he call you? - Dumbass, idiot... It goes on like that. A while later, there's even a chapter entirely dedicated to the loudly farting in polite society. Not my type if humour, but good to see that it has a long tradition, I guess.
People arent really named Lance very much anymore. But back in medieval times people used to be named Lance ALOT!!!! HAHA. He was friends with the knight that made the round table.... SIR Cumference. Eh? Eh? Get it? Eh?
Yes, great video! Any time we can see our ancestor’s human side, it brings history alive. In this case, it was fun to hear about what made them laugh! Thank you for putting this video out! Well done!
"".I believe you, for grass does not grow on a well-beaten path! "" - Comedy GOLD !!! " The Enigmata " Anglo-Saxon Riddle I am a strange creature, for I satisfy women. I grow all tall and erect in a bed, And all hairy underneath. From time to time a beautiful girl, May dare to grip me by my reddish skin. Pop me in her pantry and rob me of my head, And all at once make her eyes water. What could I be ? Answer: An Onion
Not a Medievalist but I do know that on unexplored, or unknown parts of the globe they would write "Here be dragons". They also firmly believed that there was a country inhabited by a one footed tribe iirc. I'm sure a professional will correct my reply if it's inaccurate.
@@OdeInWessex that sounds about right. i love how humans have always been humans, i know damn well if i was a cartographer and i didnt chart an area id just blame it on dragons
Sea travel has existed basically since recorded time. And fishing was very important for medieval Europe at least, since so much of it is surrounded by water, or filled with lakes and rivers, and any food source was not something to be ignored. I'm half descended from Scandinavia, so my ancestors were very involved in seafaring, shipbuilding, fishing, etc. ...sometimes to the detriment of other Europeans 😅 I'm not sure exactly when it started, but nobility/wealthy people started to create ponds specifically to hold fish/seafood for later meals by the 1500s.
What's funny to me from Medieval times is not the jokes, it's all the unintentionally funny stuff like the wacky paintings and the crazy dumb things they did that were considered normal. Even thinking about it cracks me up! 😅😂🤣
Loved it! 🤣 I have two Medieval jokes that I know: How deep is yonder pond? 'Tis but a stones' throw. When are the feathers heaviest on a duck's back? In the Springtime, when there is a drake there.
Watching this in the canteen on my lunch break. Sitting on my own like Billy no mates so I thought I’d watch this. I literally lolled at the fart one ☺️😂. Now people are looking at me like I’m crazy 😜. Oh the shame 🤣
Once upon a time in fair England, a pastor preached a Sunday sermon to his flock. He warned them as to the evils of debauching a married woman. "Tis better", he said, "to deflower ten maidens than to defile one married woman". The men of his flock aggreed.
Oh snap! “Your mama” jokes are timeless. Or, rather, I suppose they’re as old as interpersonal communication. I needed a laugh and this did it; it made my morning! thank you!
I'm just appreciating the fact these people even had a sense of humor!! 😆 Given all the death, war and mayhem, I just assumed everyone was a miserable retch. I'm sorry, but the fart jokes never get old.
They probably developed their sense of humor _because_ of all the death and mayhem. We've always made jokes to lighten the mood during tense times, I mean look at the memes being made since Elizabeth II died.
I totally love this channel! Thank you for the great work you do! I have one question: do you think we have emotions today that did not exist during the Middle Ages? Or the opposite - emotions, feelings that they had and that no longer exist today?
@@Hilts931 telll me, how do you think they experienced things like “FOMO,”, feeling “lost”, “burn out”? What words would they use to describe feelings associated with these words today?
@@interestingvideos4me because feelings are chemical reactions in the brain that take tens of millions of years to develop and adapt. Medieval people only lived a matter of a few hundred years ago.
@@Hilts931 Yes, I understand that. I guess my point was more from the cultural perspective. People may have same chemical reactions but make sense of it differently no? So, just like emotions can be understood differently in different places in the planet (although the wiring of the brain is pretty much the same), I was wondering if there would be the same variation as we see across places, but across times. But thanks a lot for the chat! I appreciate it
@@interestingvideos4me no doubt we understand our feelings better, but effectively we feel the same and have the same emotions. The social/survival demands were harsher, but we’re effectively still the same creatures.
‼️Lmao I love the jokes so far! I think you can tell a lot about daily life and society from what they thought was funny and what they thought was scary. I would love to hear some horror stories or horror legends from medieval times as well. I know for a fact the byzantines had lots of stories about haunted houses and women murdering their entire families
@@2Bad4YOUuu thank you I was thinking with spooky season just about to start some horror themed history would be really interesting! Hopefully because he hardened it that means he'll be doing some horror videos coming up
Ah, the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great, great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great, great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great, great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great, great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddad jokes we all know and love!
From Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: "And so when time of first cock-crow was come, Up rose this merry lover, Absalom, And dressed him gay and all at point-device, But first he chewed some licorice and spice So he'd smell sweet, ere he had combed his hair. Under his tongue some bits of true-love rare, For thereby thought he to be more gracious. He went, then, to the carpenter's dark house. And silent stood beneath the shot-window; Unto his breast it reached, it was so low; And he coughed softly, in a low half tone: 'What do you, honeycomb, sweet Alison? My cinnamon, my fair bird, my sweetie, Awake, O darling mine, and speak to me! It's little thought you give me and my woe, Who for your love do sweat where'er I go. Yet it's no wonder that I faint and sweat; I long as does the lamb for mother's teat. Truly, sweetheart, I have such love-longing That like a turtle-dove's my true yearning; And I can eat no more than can a maid.' This Absalom plumped down upon his knees, And said: 'I am a lord in all degrees; For after this there may be better still Darling, my sweetest bird, I wait your will.' The window she unbarred, and that in haste. 'Have done,' said she, 'come on, and do it fast, Before we're seen by any neighbour's eye.' This Absalom did wipe his mouth all dry; Dark was the night as pitch, aye dark as coal, And through the window she put out her hole. And Absalom no better felt nor worse, But with his mouth he kissed her naked arse Right greedily, before he knew of this. Aback he leapt- it seemed somehow amiss, For well he knew a woman has no beard; He'd felt a thing all rough and longish haired, And said, 'Oh fie, alas! What did I do?' 'Teehee!' she laughed, and closed the window too"
Thank you, for getting Medieval on our laughs. I wonder if Geoffrey Chaucer carried a thesaurus of humour during his Canterbury Tales? Best wishes to All from London, Ontario, Canada.
"Historians seem to see the same trends in humor for centuries up until around the year 2020, when jokes and humor fell out of favor and were eventually outlawed."
A women walks into a butcher and asks for some salami. The butcher asks ‘Would you like it sliced Madam?’ She laughs and replies ‘What do you think I am a bloody moneybox.’
My favourite medieval joke:
'Why does the holly tree have the cleanest leaves in the forest?' - 'Because nobody wipes his arse with them'.
lmfao
bruh lmao
Lmao I love these
So damn funny
I googled "lost medieval servant boy" I got... "This page cannot be found."
🤣🤣🤣 badum tssss
Lmfao!
Sir!!!! 😂
@@97ajf Medieval dad joke.
😂🤣😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
A joke from ancient Imperial Rome ...
Two fellows recognize each other on the busy streets of Rome:
Craxus - Is that you, Melius? You must be a ghost! No no I heard you were dead!
Melius - but it is me Melius, standing before you alive, breathing!
Feel my arm you see?
Graxus - I'm not convinced. The person who told me you are dead is much more reliable than you.
Sorry didn't get it. Don't explain it. You might ruin it.
@@suckassmork2972 lol ... How would anyone know rumor and propaganda from fact in those days, aside from reputation for veracity in general. My sides ache.
Maybe I'm not educated enough and this went over my head...
The good ol' "who do you believe? Me or some donkey?"
Pretty sure the joke is that he's basically just calling Melius an untrustworthy and unreliable person. He'd rather trust someone else telling him Melius is dead than Melius himself telling him he's not... Even though that's ridiculous. Melius obviously has to be alive to be able to tell him.
We tend to think we are for far ahead the medieval people, far more advanced, almost a new evolutive subspecie...and yet we are telling practically the same jokes they did.
Compare ancient Roman graffiti with modern graffiti, it's basically the same content
@@ericbrown621 we are the same as a species only the technology really evolved. Even the Society seems the same on its core, we still have our mass hysterias, our fanaticisms and our witch huntings.
The real black pill.
Lol if you’re European to be contrarian.
Maybe you do
Woman walks into a bar carrying a duck.
Barman asks "where'd you get that pig?"
Woman says "it's a duck"
Barman says "I was talking to the duck"
I read "barman" as Batman and it made it even funnier lol
😷
Was the barman Arthur Morgan?
And Henny Youngman takes a bow.
might it be better if the woman was carrying a pig, and the barman says, 'where'd you get that dog?'
-it's a pig
-I was talking to the pig.
Monty Python was more historically accurate than I use to give them credit for.
I opened the comments specifically looking for MP references and hopefully smell some elderberries.
I fart in your general direction!
Well, Terry Jones _did_ minor in medieval history in college, so…
look up joel haver's video on the chest high wall
I fart in your general direction!
"Your momma"
"You too"
Ahh, universal humour.
Plutarch, in his Parallel Lives, recounts once that a rival of Cato once asked him 'Who is thy father?', to which Cato replied 'Your mother has made it far more difficult for you to answer that question.' For indeed, hers was not the most unsullied reputation.
That Knights response talking with the Queen was savage and well deserved.
“Grass does not grow on a well beaten path” absolutely sent me 😂😂😂😂 please please please upload some more medieval jokes
Me toooo 😂
I have heard it said. 'beaten' as in walked on. Not so much a joke as an adage but not pertaining to sex.
@@angr3819 I don’t get it.
@@treystephens6166 The way I have always heard it said is, for instance, perhaps setting up a new business. Do you go for a niche market that there might not be enough call for? Or something that is tried and tested like food, funeral parlours? Well, people have to eat to live, and people die. Not everyone has to have the latest expensive high fashion dog clothes. If it is a choice between a holiday or having the boiler fixed, then obviously the plumber gets the money. Thus there are more plumbers than holiday companies. The grass is more trodden into the ground on the path most frequently walked upon.
Does that help?
In relation to the example of sex, clearly he was suggesting his mother had no pubic hair because she had a lot of nookie. That's silly though as people don't stop having pubic hair because they have a lot of nookie. So I doubt many people uses the adage that way.
@@angr3819 Most people shave their privates before sex.
So in this context would mean she would be planning for constant sex.
A joke written by Leonardo da Vinci:
Two monks are travelling to a new monastery and stop by a tavern. The innkeeper offers them a small roasted chicken, for that was the only food left.
A fat merchant sitting next to the monks steals their chicken saying "You are monks and you can't eat meat, so I'll be the one to eat the last chicken."
The day after the monks and the merchant are travelling together and reach a river without a bridge. "I can't dirty my shoes, and you monks travel barefoot! You shall carry me on your shoulders to the other side!" And the monks agree.
They reach the middle of the river with the fat merchant on their shoulders and they ask, "say, do you carry any coins with you?"
The merchant replies, "Why of course! I'm a wealthy merchant after all."
The monks immediately dump the man in the water.
"We're sorry, but our code forbids us from carrying coins."
That's a good one
Ha! That's great!
Ngl it's hillarious 🤣
Hahahahahah
*Old Viking joke:* Björn was in a feud with his neighbour Thorfinn. One evening Björn assembles a group of friends and go to Thorfinn's farm to see what he is up to. B jörn climbs up onto Thorfinn's roof and spy through a small window. Suddenly a spear up through the hole stabs Björn in the eye. _"Is Thorfinn at home?"_ ask Björn's friends from below. Deadly wounded Björn answers: _"I don't know. But Thorfinn's _*_spear_*_ is at home!"_
Oh those wacky Vikings! ;D
That is actually a story from The Saga of Burnt Njal, from the fight that resulted in Gunnar’s death. When a Viking was dying, it was very admirable to make a great joke or compose a poem.
Find it hard to believe the medieval guys were making jokes about my mum specifically
Well, she is pretty old after all.
Even the Egyptians were talking about her!
She's so big they had to split her between centuries
@@Clearlight201 well played
She's just following longstanding family traditions.
Imagine getting roasted so bad someone makes a painting of it.
I hope to paint Trump being crushed by his own documents
@@nosuchthing8 bro do it. Can't believe I voted for that POS
TH-cam tariq masheed boo chief bear
"I make pictures in the daylight and children in the dark" 👈😄 Good one!!
Could be absolutely from today, made into some kind of meme.
'I get my rest in the daytime........
I do my run-in', run-in', round at night..!!'
I absolutely love hearing jokes told throughout history. Humanity's sense of humor hasn't changed over many thousands of years, and if you want proof, look up Pompeii graffiti
The graffiti about those two guys being best bros forever makes me smile :y
The graffiti in the Hagia Sophia makes me laugh too. For a long time people thought they were some kind of important runes, but they were finally translated as saying essentially "Halfdan was here"
@@BlackOrderAlchemist lmao. I really hope future archaeologist wont judge our graffiti as some kind of temple art.
@@BlackOrderAlchemist Was it that, or was it the one that said "this is really high up"? Because a norseman did that too!
Imagine the last joke and how the entourage goes "oooooh" after the comeback by the knight xD
It would have been funny if Monty Python had done it.
Oh and how their sides must have split when the knight was immediately dragged away to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
@@stonemarten1400 unlikely
@@stonemarten1400 ironically, the only side splitting that occurred that day were those of the knight who was drawn and quartered
Hardly safer than "Oh, yes, I remember. It was quite the topic in the barracks, as they were all commenting how surprised they were when each they witnessed it!"
The jokes are so good it makes us laugh centuries later
Yes, hard to believe that these jokes were being told in the 900's!!
@@larryslemp9698 that just shows, humans are going to be humans.
But no one lives for centuries.
- Does your dog bite?
- No.
- Quch, it bit me.
- That's not my dog.....
Inspector Clouseau
“It’s hard enough to get them to believe it’s 500” I appreciate the understanding and realism of this joke.
That one made me laugh out loud
This one literally made me wheeze
That’s how religion works 😂
That priest was ahead of it's time
@@MartinD9999 🙄The five loaves represent the five books of Mosaic law. I'm not even Christian and I know this...
The earliest recorded joke yet discovered was written in cuneiform on a clay tablet in Ur. It translates as, "Something occurred which has never happened before in the world. A young wife sat on her husband's lap and didn't fart."
Wtf 😂😂
Fart jokes are immortal. Beyond time and space.
This is proof positive right here that history repeating itself is not necessarily a bad thing.
Jokes are jokes are jokes!
And for all our 'progress,' we don't really change much.
A'yuh,@@jean-paulaudette9246 - what you say is true:
*_fart jokes are forever..._*
“Grass does not grow on a well beaten path” Haha! I’m going to try that one out on my wife
Godspeed, brother
I must ask 12 days later, was your dog house comfortable to sleep in that night, lol.
The repacursions will be interesting.prepare yourself for some marriage counseling sessions .
@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER Still in the dog house ☹️😂
@@beauwhitlock5034 Lol. Now you know the real reason why dogs are called man's best friend, rather than woman's best friend. They've been occasional roommates for ~40 thousand years.
That's probably one of the unsung reasons why "man"kind bred them from wolves. To have a warm place to sleep when it was suddenly too cold in the cave, lol.
I wonder how far back in history this type of humour goes. We may see cave paintings in a new light. Your channel is brilliant.
I'm expecting that we will discover a Neanderthal cave painting of Us having Little Ug pull his finger and blow torching Og and Little Og across the camp fire.
Bet it will be discovered though that the first ever known joke was a dick joke...from Homo Erectus.
Special service hotlines perhaps?
As far back as you want, I have no idea why people think they are intellectually superior today
@@Pilafcg Well the Flynn Effect lends of credence to that.
@@Dennis-nc3vw I find the Flynn effect a bad theory
All I can say is, "The Miller's Tale." I remember reading this in college for the first time and cracking up, mainly because it was so damn disgustingly funny, even by today's standards.
I read it in high school and same. I couldn’t believe what I was reading and even told my English teacher. She was a stuffy old lady and didn’t want to hear it. Bitch, you gave me this book to read! You don’t want to hear about farting on a guy’s head?
I love these jokes because for me it shows that there was inherent intelligence and lots of thought put into them. These are the kind of wits born from observation as well as extensive understanding of their surroundings.
In other words, glory to the ancestors!
Should you take a baby from back then and raise him today he would be a normal zoomer. They were as smart as us, just with less acumulated knowledge.
@@bloodangel19 well yes they were for the most part fully developed Homo Sapiens Sapiens, our species cognitive abilities has evolved very little in the past 50.000 years.
But we always like to think that we’re smarter than the ones before us, as it is far easier to see their errors, contrary to our own.
@@bloodangel19 on average, they probably had more accumulated knowledge of how everything works. Today's kids are so manipulated by social media and school propagandas.
This had me laughing so hard my husband made me replay it so he could share the humor. Well done -- please post more like this!!!
Couples who laugh together stay together
8:22 that was gold!
I love how these little quips have been kept in perpetuity so I thought they were so clever that they should write them down and here we are literally 1000 years later listening to them
🤣🤣🤣 glad to see that our sense of humor has not changed
"I'm telling you Mavis, the man used sorcery and turned his form into a pickled cucumber, truly it was the most joyous thing I have ever witnessed"
Fave jokes: Q: 'Why does Edwood Woodward have so many 'D's in his name......A: 'Because if he didn't, he'd be called Ewoo Woowar'. Makes me laugh anyway!
Edward Woodward sounds like a fart in the bath!
I love the snark in these. Everyone was a smart ass.
Wouldn't you be too if a splinter could kill you?!
Grass don't grow on well beaten path 😂😂
'grass doesn't grow on a well beaten track' Classic.
I quite enjoyed some of the jokes in Simplicissimus Teutsch, written in 1668 about a boy, later man, adventuring through the 30-years war. The book has some mood swings, describing war crimes in chapter, and following them up with goody jokes in the next. It starts out with the protagonist being a boy, witnessing knights taking over his family's farm, raping the women, torturing the men to find out where the money is hidden, and eventually burning the place down with everyone inside, with him barely managing to escape and running into a hermit in the woods.
The hermit asks him:
- Whats is your name?
- I don't know.
- What does your mother call you?
- What's a mother?
- Who made your clothes?
- My ma did!
- This is your mother. What does she call you?
- Rascal, goodfornothing, lazyass...
- What does your father call you?
- What's a father?
- Who shares your mother's bed.
- My Pops.
- This is your father. What does he call you?
- Dumbass, idiot...
It goes on like that. A while later, there's even a chapter entirely dedicated to the loudly farting in polite society. Not my type if humour, but good to see that it has a long tradition, I guess.
This channel is rapidly becoming one of my favorites. This episode was one of the best so far.
People arent really named Lance very much anymore.
But back in medieval times people used to be named Lance ALOT!!!!
HAHA. He was friends with the knight that made the round table.... SIR Cumference.
Eh? Eh? Get it? Eh?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
[jester emoji goes here]
Jester? I don't even know her!
Yes, great video! Any time we can see our ancestor’s human side, it brings history alive. In this case, it was fun to hear about what made them laugh! Thank you for putting this video out! Well done!
I was always tickled by that quip said by The Fool in King Lear, about the cockney who, for love of his horse,, buttered its hay.
"".I believe you, for grass does not grow on a well-beaten path! "" - Comedy GOLD !!!
" The Enigmata " Anglo-Saxon Riddle
I am a strange creature, for I satisfy women.
I grow all tall and erect in a bed,
And all hairy underneath.
From time to time a beautiful girl,
May dare to grip me by my reddish skin.
Pop me in her pantry and rob me of my head,
And all at once make her eyes water.
What could I be ?
Answer: An Onion
For the record: I loved this, and would LOVE to see you guys do more
I absolutely love these videos. Educational and well put together.
This channel is so educational, especially because I'm starting A level history
This is by far one of the best channels.
love your content man! what did medieval people think of the ocean? sailing, fishing, exploring, etc.
Not a Medievalist but I do know that on unexplored, or unknown parts of the globe they would write "Here be dragons". They also firmly believed that there was a country inhabited by a one footed tribe iirc. I'm sure a professional will correct my reply if it's inaccurate.
@@OdeInWessex that sounds about right. i love how humans have always been humans, i know damn well if i was a cartographer and i didnt chart an area id just blame it on dragons
Sea travel has existed basically since recorded time. And fishing was very important for medieval Europe at least, since so much of it is surrounded by water, or filled with lakes and rivers, and any food source was not something to be ignored. I'm half descended from Scandinavia, so my ancestors were very involved in seafaring, shipbuilding, fishing, etc. ...sometimes to the detriment of other Europeans 😅
I'm not sure exactly when it started, but nobility/wealthy people started to create ponds specifically to hold fish/seafood for later meals by the 1500s.
@@moomyung9231 humans have always wanted to explore places they dont fit in huh
That painting at 1:11 is amazingly photorealistic.
Now imagine medieval people reacting to memes and shitposts
They would probably love them, assuming they were caught up on our current events of course.
Sick burns.
Medieval style.
I find it so comforting that they enjoyed humor in such scary and uncertain times. Good for them.
I mean, the Middle Age lasted a thousand years. There had to have been humour in at least *_some_* point
The worse it got, the better the humor🎭
It's scary for us because we are living in a much better time, but for them, it must be normal.
They saw themselves as lucky .. apart from the plague.
I wouldn't say uncertain considering how barely anything would change in your entire lifetime, especially if you were a peasant.
What's funny to me from Medieval times is not the jokes, it's all the unintentionally funny stuff like the wacky paintings and the crazy dumb things they did that were considered normal. Even thinking about it cracks me up! 😅😂🤣
Loved it! 🤣 I have two Medieval jokes that I know:
How deep is yonder pond? 'Tis but a stones' throw.
When are the feathers heaviest on a duck's back? In the Springtime, when there is a drake there.
Which side of the said duck has the most feathers?
The outside!
Well, I got a good chuckle out of this.
Watching this in the canteen on my lunch break. Sitting on my own like Billy no mates so I thought I’d watch this. I literally lolled at the fart one ☺️😂. Now people are looking at me like I’m crazy 😜. Oh the shame 🤣
"For grass does not grow on a wellbeaten path." Lmao roasted 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Once upon a time in fair England, a pastor preached a Sunday sermon to his flock. He warned them as to the evils of debauching a married woman. "Tis better", he said, "to deflower ten maidens than to defile one married woman".
The men of his flock aggreed.
….is this supposed to be funny?
@@Chrochella It's a genuine medieval joke, albeit paraphrased.
@@Chrochella medieval WHOOSH
Agreed, not really funny. Would put the joke teller in a trebuchet as a better joke. 😎
@@peterstuyvesant9815 enlighten me I do not understand
Thank you for posting, This are very enjoyable.
😂😂😂 OMG I failed the key joke completely ... and thought "otherwise" ...
Honestly, I would have failed too, if I hadn't heard it before on a podcast a while back...
...the rest were **new** to me though!
The biggest hint is that it mentioned the key being "by a man's thigh",
*_not_* /between/ them!
Time warp blast from the past the old ones are best great video cheers
My mill grinds pepper and spice!
Your mill grinds rats and mice!
That first one … yep my mind went there 😂
I love the slides you chose to use. A great variety!
"My wisdom is in this hole" that got me good.
So the chef replies, “King Arthur is a flour..” to which his assistant responds:
“No wonder Guinevere left him for Lancelot..”. [insert rimshot here]
Oh snap! “Your mama” jokes are timeless. Or, rather, I suppose they’re as old as interpersonal communication.
I needed a laugh and this did it; it made my morning! thank you!
me, answering the riddle: ?a crook?
me, incorrectly answering the first riddle: oh. and i like how the key was, ahem, animated.
I'm just appreciating the fact these people even had a sense of humor!! 😆 Given all the death, war and mayhem, I just assumed everyone was a miserable retch.
I'm sorry, but the fart jokes never get old.
I gas not...
They probably developed their sense of humor _because_ of all the death and mayhem. We've always made jokes to lighten the mood during tense times, I mean look at the memes being made since Elizabeth II died.
I totally love this channel! Thank you for the great work you do! I have one question: do you think we have emotions today that did not exist during the Middle Ages? Or the opposite - emotions, feelings that they had and that no longer exist today?
No
@@Hilts931 telll me, how do you think they experienced things like “FOMO,”, feeling “lost”, “burn out”? What words would they use to describe feelings associated with these words today?
@@interestingvideos4me because feelings are chemical reactions in the brain that take tens of millions of years to develop and adapt. Medieval people only lived a matter of a few hundred years ago.
@@Hilts931 Yes, I understand that. I guess my point was more from the cultural perspective. People may have same chemical reactions but make sense of it differently no? So, just like emotions can be understood differently in different places in the planet (although the wiring of the brain is pretty much the same), I was wondering if there would be the same variation as we see across places, but across times. But thanks a lot for the chat! I appreciate it
@@interestingvideos4me no doubt we understand our feelings better, but effectively we feel the same and have the same emotions. The social/survival demands were harsher, but we’re effectively still the same creatures.
Another very well done video! I love your channel!
‼️Lmao I love the jokes so far! I think you can tell a lot about daily life and society from what they thought was funny and what they thought was scary. I would love to hear some horror stories or horror legends from medieval times as well. I know for a fact the byzantines had lots of stories about haunted houses and women murdering their entire families
You really think they're funny? Jesus.
Horror stories 👺 good idea 💡
@@2Bad4YOUuu thank you I was thinking with spooky season just about to start some horror themed history would be really interesting! Hopefully because he hardened it that means he'll be doing some horror videos coming up
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@@fitzfitzchivalry4538 Hey if you can make any better jokes let's hear em' now.
Just for the bishop’s teeth story… GOTEM!
Just saw an article about this video! Dude, you're famous!
There really is a timeless quality to these jokes LOL
"You clearly need Jesus!" 😂👍🏽😂
Wow this cheered me up so much.
Ah, the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great, great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great, great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great, great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great, great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddad jokes we all know and love!
If all his descendants had a son in their 20's, that would mean your great⁴⁰ grandfather would have been born around the 13th century 🤓
From Chaucer's Canterbury Tales:
"And so when time of first cock-crow was come,
Up rose this merry lover, Absalom,
And dressed him gay and all at point-device,
But first he chewed some licorice and spice
So he'd smell sweet, ere he had combed his hair.
Under his tongue some bits of true-love rare,
For thereby thought he to be more gracious.
He went, then, to the carpenter's dark house.
And silent stood beneath the shot-window;
Unto his breast it reached, it was so low;
And he coughed softly, in a low half tone:
'What do you, honeycomb, sweet Alison?
My cinnamon, my fair bird, my sweetie,
Awake, O darling mine, and speak to me!
It's little thought you give me and my woe,
Who for your love do sweat where'er I go.
Yet it's no wonder that I faint and sweat;
I long as does the lamb for mother's teat.
Truly, sweetheart, I have such love-longing
That like a turtle-dove's my true yearning;
And I can eat no more than can a maid.'
This Absalom plumped down upon his knees,
And said: 'I am a lord in all degrees;
For after this there may be better still
Darling, my sweetest bird, I wait your will.'
The window she unbarred, and that in haste.
'Have done,' said she, 'come on, and do it fast,
Before we're seen by any neighbour's eye.'
This Absalom did wipe his mouth all dry;
Dark was the night as pitch, aye dark as coal,
And through the window she put out her hole.
And Absalom no better felt nor worse,
But with his mouth he kissed her naked arse
Right greedily, before he knew of this.
Aback he leapt- it seemed somehow amiss,
For well he knew a woman has no beard;
He'd felt a thing all rough and longish haired,
And said, 'Oh fie, alas! What did I do?'
'Teehee!' she laughed, and closed the window too"
my favorite was the one with Jesus and the breads, i died laughing, Dante's reply was also quite genius.
Can we have more of these?? These are great!
Nice touch with the medieval drum rolls…😂
Thank you, for getting Medieval on our laughs. I wonder if Geoffrey Chaucer carried a thesaurus of humour during his Canterbury Tales? Best wishes to All from London, Ontario, Canada.
These were great! 🤣 The first one totally got me.
Great video! Jokes give a good insight into the mentality and culture of a particular time in history.
Hilarious! Please do more of these when you can!!
The thumbnail alone is amazing 😭😭😭
The last words of the guy making the last joke before his beheading: worth it.
Thank you for your excellent videos!
I quite enjoyed this video, and the jokes were quite smart. Thank you for uploading.
More jokes please.
Farting never ceases to be funny.
And fanny jokes.
I literally laughed out loud at that one, this in the canteen in work on my own. Now people are looking at me like I’m crazy
Don’t mess with Dante
Or he may make you a main character
In the Inferno
Thats one book
You definitely don’t want to be a main character in
A classic work of popular fiction? I would have been honored to be featured as a character in his works.
Love that this is 2 haiku
The knights one was the best haha
The ad came immediately after the testicles joke and I couldn't stop laughing
“Either someone farted in this room or there’s a Dane less than 5 miles away from here”
Thank you - you’ve cheered up my day. Excellent video!
The last joke...The queen responds "Off with his head!!!!"
THEY HAD SOME GREAT JOKES!! I LAUGHED AT SO MANY!!
What a cool idea for a video lol I loved this! Thanks man!!
omigosh laughed so hard, great zingers in there lol bravo on the vid!
"Historians seem to see the same trends in humor for centuries up until around the year 2020, when jokes and humor fell out of favor and were eventually outlawed."
The Woke have the Reverse Midas Touch. Everything that was once golden that they touch, turns to feces.
Loved it! Subscribed.
Damn.... These are kinda funny! Thanks. What a wonderful video
A women walks into a butcher and asks for some salami. The butcher asks ‘Would you like it sliced Madam?’ She laughs and replies ‘What do you think I am a bloody moneybox.’
That was good for a few chuckles. 😂🤣