Today’s post comes from our sister site, Newdie Mag and covers the history of the dad joke:
We posted a new trivia quiz based on dad jokes. In honor of that quiz, we will give you a some history of what dads everywhere have been proudly making people groan with for years:
The truth is, no one actually knows where the term “dad joke” comes from. (We know, what kind of history is this???)
But wait! There’s more!
The term was certainly being used in the early and mid-1980s, but there was no one to whom the etymology could be attributed. The first time the term was published was in June 1987 in The Gettysburg Times in an article by Jim Kalbaugh under the headline “Don’t Ban the ‘Dad’ Jokes; Preserve and Revere Them”.
The first known use of “dad joke” on the internet was in 2003, but searches for the term didn’t really take off until 2013. In 2017, it skyrocketed on social media. #dadjokes and #dadjokesrule cemented dad jokes in pop culture that year.
Another big moment for the term “dad joke” came when Barack Obama even made dad jokes a central feature of his turkey pardon ceremony (he had a whole corny one in 2016 and referenced the phenomenon by name).
Read the entire article here
Are you or someone you know a dad joke expert? Get this tee!
