The World’s Funniest Joke

Dec 20, 2001 16:51 · 126 words · 1 minute read

Yahoo! is reporting the selection of the World’s Funniest Joke. 100,000 people from 70 countries voted on Laugh Lab. Read the joke itself below.

Famed fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and his gruff assistant Doctor Watson pitch their tent while on a camping expedition, but in the middle of the night Holmes nudges Watson awake and questions him.

HOLMES: Watson, look up at the stars and tell me what you deduce.

WATSON: I see millions of stars, and if there are millions of stars, and if even a few of those have planets, it is quite likely there are some planets like earth, and if there are a few planets like earth out there there might also be life.

HOLMES: Watson, you idiot! Somebody stole our tent.