Monty Python’s Flying Circus used that joke in their very first broadcast (aired 5 October 1969) in a sketch called “The Funniest Joke in the World”. It was translated into German and used in WWII to help defeat the NAZIs. “All through the winter of ’43, we had translators working, in joke-proof conditions, to produce a german version of the joke. They worked on one word each for greater safety. One of them saw two words of the joke and spent several weeks in hospital.”
Monty Python’s Flying Circus used that joke in their very first broadcast (aired 5 October 1969) in a sketch called “The Funniest Joke in the World”. It was translated into German and used in WWII to help defeat the NAZIs. “All through the winter of ’43, we had translators working, in joke-proof conditions, to produce a german version of the joke. They worked on one word each for greater safety. One of them saw two words of the joke and spent several weeks in hospital.”