There is this guy who walks into a bar and notices a man 12 inches tall playing the piano. Here’s one version of the joke, from commenter Twip (1/19/09) on an xkcd forum (I’ll get to xkcd in a moment): The bartender looks at them and says, ‘What is this, a joke?'” This form has become so well known that it is the subject of at least one joke about the popularity of the joke itself: “A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into a bar. Ouch!”Īnother major variant involves several men walking into the bar together, often with related professions, such as “a priest, a minister and a rabbi.” In effect, this is a merger between the “bar joke” and jokes involving priests, ministers and rabbis (or Buddhist monks, etc.) in other settings.

Sometimes the unexpected happens: “A man walks into a bar.

The types of variations include puns or word plays ( the man walks into a bar and pulls out a tiny piano and a 12-inch pianist, followed by any number of different punchlines or man with dyslexia walked into a bra), or replace the man with woman, a famous person, people of various occupations, animals (a duck walks into a bar, orders a beer, and tells the bartender, put it on my bill) or inanimate objects (a sandwich walks into a bar, orders a beer, and is told by the bartender, we don’t serve food here). Variants: The bar joke has a large number of variations. It is often used by comedians and people telling jokes to their friends. This joke has gained an incredible amount of variants over the years. The initial perception of the joke is that a man is walking into a bar to have a drink, but this only lasts a few seconds as the punchline is quickly uttered. The basic syntax of this type of joke is “A man walks into a bar and ”.

Wikipedia on the bar joke, with the relevant part boldfaced:Ī bar joke is a very common and basic type of joke.

Xkcd tiny piano