Q: How is a baseball team similar to a pancake?
A: They both need a good batter!
Explanation: The word “batter” can refer to the person on a baseball team who has the bat and is hitting the ball. The word “batter” can also mean the thick liquid that a cook uses to make pancakes. The batter is poured onto the griddle; the cooked batter is called a pancake. This joke plays on the double meaning of the word “batter.”
Q: What goes up and down but does not move?
A: Stairs!
Explanation: You walk up the stairs and down the stairs. We say “the stairs go up to the next floor” or “the stairs go down to the basement.” That is, the stairs “go” but they do not move! Ha!
Q: Why do bicycles fall over?
A: Because they are two-tired!
Explanation: Bicycles have two tires, that is, they have two wheels. If a car is four-tired (has 4 tires) then you could say a bike is two-tired (has two tires), although no one would actually say that- except in a joke. This joke plays on the words “too tired.” If you are very tired, too tired, you have no energy. Maybe you would fall over like the two-tired (too tired) bike!
Get some rest!
Knock, knock. 
Who’s there?
Luke.
Luke who?
You look like you want to hear another knock knock joke!
Explanation: You see, “Luke” sounds like “look.” So, you look like you want to hear another knock knock joke!
Q: What language does a billboard speak?
A: Sign language!
Explanation: A billboard is one of those really big advertisements found along roads and on top of buildings; a billboard is a type of sign. This joke plays on the word “sign” which can mean a public, printed announcement that is usually large (like a street sign, a stop sign, a road sign, the name of a store on its facade, …) or it can be the first part of “sign language.” Sign language is a language used by hearing impaired people to communicate. So a billboard (a sign) speaks sign language because it is a sign!
As you work on learning English or learning jokes take some time to learn sign language!
Q: What would we get if we threw all the books in the ocean?
A: A title wave!
Explanation: A tidal wave is produced by the daily tides, which are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun (officially, it is not a tsunami). Books have titles. The words “title wave” sound very much like “tidal wave.” Read all about it!
Q: What do you call a sleeping bull?
A: A bull-dozer.
Explanation: “To doze” is to sleep, but just for a little bit of time. A bulldozer is a machine that moves dirt. So, a sleeping bull is a bull that dozes or a bull-dozer which sounds like bulldozer!
Q: How do you make a hot dog stand?
A: Take away its chair!
Explanation: You know what a hot dog is, right? A “hot dog stand” is a small place that sells hot dogs (see picture). This joke plays on the word stand which is also the opposite of sit. If you take away someone’s chair that person has to stand… just like the hot dog in this joke!
Q: What do you call a fish with no eye?
A: Fsh!
Explanation: When you hear this joke you are thinking about a fish with no eye, perhaps a blind fish. What makes this joke funny is that the answer is the sound “fsh” because there is no longer an “i” in the word fish. Ha!!
Q: Why did the girl spread peanut butter on the road?
A: To go with the traffic jam!
Explanation: Peanut butter and jelly is a common type of sandwich in the United States. Jam and jelly are synonyms (they are not identical but very much the same). A traffic jam is when there are so many cars in one place that the cars are stopped (or moving very slowly). This joke plays with the word jam- the kind that goes with peanut butter and the kind that stops traffic. Ha ha ha!
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