On Father’s Day of that year, Kalbaugh not only introduced “dad joke” to the public, but he also made an impassioned plea to keep the genre alive: “As we approach Father’s Day, I would like to propose that ‘Dad’ Jokes not be banned. At the confluence of neutral yet punchy is where the beauty of dad jokes stand. “Dad jokes take the audience away from everything awful to something so neutral and inoffensive, without even trying,” says Seven. His tweets share his daily struggles raising four girls, summarized in four-lines of dialogue that are almost all prime examples of dad jokes. The 2017 online video series “Dad Jokes” pits comedians and celebrities against each other in dad joke competitions, in which competitors lose if they laugh at their opponent’s jokes.

Source: National Post June 14, 2019 16:18 UTC