Do You Actually Understand the Most Common Joke in the English Language?

Why the chicken joke is the worst one to tell children.

Melissa Balick
ILLUMINATION
Published in
3 min readAug 18, 2021

--

Photo by sippakorn yamkasikorn on Unsplash

I didn’t understand the first joke I ever learned.

“Why did the chicken cross the road?”

Why?

“To get to the other side.”

--

--

Melissa Balick
ILLUMINATION

Fiction writer with a couple stories published in literary magazines, nanny, reader of way too many books.