What are Dad Jokes?

Go Natural English with Gabby

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Hey naturals, what's up? It's your favorite funniest American English teacher Gabby Wallace here to talk about

Humor and not just any kind of humor, but not funny

something that is called a

Joke, what is a dad joke well if you look it up online? You're gonna see that it's literally defined as

humor that is not funny or a joke that is not very funny at all but I

Want to tell you about dad jokes because I think they're really fun for language learners because they're going to help you to unlock another

Layer of the English language because a lot of dad jokes

Even though they may be unoriginal or they may seem to not be very funny. They actually play with

language a lot and

Personally I'm a big fan of dad jokes so I'm gonna share five dad jokes with you that I think are hilarious

I hope you enjoy them too, and I hope you don't judge me because I think they're hilarious

But I want to start off by actually

Defining what is a dad joke why do we call it a dad joke it's the kind of humor that?

Middle-aged men particularly fathers, or dads who have family maybe children might tell so they're

appropriate jokes

And they often use puns or play on words so when a word has more than one meaning

or if you can sort of

Put two words together or maybe a word that has you know a double meaning like I said, so I'll show you some examples

Too okay, so I love dad jokes because they play with the English language

And I think that they're rich for us to learn new things about the English language, and that's why we're here right

I love this kind of humor and other languages, too

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Okay, five dad jokes are you ready we're gonna start with number one. How do you know?

When a joke is a dad joke

When it's a parent a

Parents is a word that

means clear or obvious

but when we say in two different words a

Parent a parent could be a mother a father a dad therefore a dad

Joke, huh? It's it's pretty good. Isn't it okay number two?

What did the candle say to the other candle?

What do you think?

The candle said want to go out tonight

So wanna go out obviously means to go out on a date, but when a candle flame

That means that the flame has been extinguished, and there is no more fire

So oh did the fire go out did the flame go out? We can also use that phrasal verb and we're talking about

Candle lights so it's a double

Entendre a double meaning. I love these okay number three

Have you heard of the band?

9999 megabytes no well maybe because they're still looking for a gig oh

Oh if you're a techie I bet you love that one. I love these so nerdy, but they're so good

Okay, number four what do you call a?

Computer that's right a computer that sings

Adele you know the famous singer, but it's also uh

Dell like the brand of computer I know that one's

So-so okay last one number five. Did you hear about the kidnapping at school?

It's okay. Don't worry the teacher woke him up. Oh

I love the most of all especially for English learners because we can talk about the stress on a compound noun

So not only are we talking about nerdy dad jokes, but we're talking about nerdy grammar

This is my favorite stuff you guys. I love to nerd out about this so a

Kidnapping where we stress the first syllable kidnapping is when?

someone takes a child

Illegally against their will and it's not a good thing

Where they steal a child but a kid?

Napping which is two separate words a kid

subject napping the verb a kid

That's fine. That's just where you're sleeping a little bit getting a little bit of rest of course you never want to nap in class

But anyway, that's why this is hilarious very funny

Right isn't it. Don't you think okay? Tell me in the comments if you thought any of these were funny

Or if you have any questions about any of these if you're not sure why any of these should be funny

Or what the double entendre is or the double meaning, and yeah?

I would love to know if you have any dad jokes to share with me

I'm always looking to add to my collection so that I can impress or perhaps

Disgust my friends by telling more dad jokes if you love this make sure as I mentioned to

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