Dirty Jokes

I can never remember dirty jokes. I'm probably not alone in this because dirty jokes are like snack foods: quickly consumed and quickly forgotten. The only one I can remember is the one they used over and over on the sitcom “Night Court”.

A priest had been living a secluded existence in a monastery for most of his life. He never got out and was completely innocent in the ways of the world. One day he decides out of the blue to walk into the city and check it out. As he’s walking through a beaten-down neighborhood he passes a prostitute on the street. She calls out to him, “Hey preacher, you want around the world? Twenty Bucks!” Now, the priest has absolutely no idea who she is or what she’s talking about so he just smiles and keeps on walking. Later, he can’t figure out what it was about so he goes to the convent next door to talk to the Mother Superior. “Mother Superior”, he asks, “what is around the world?” She replies, “Twenty bucks, same as downtown”.

They used to use this joke a lot on Night Court. They’d cut back from a commercial and someone would just be finishing the joke: “Twenty bucks, same as downtown!” It’s such a standard now that you don’t have to tell the joke, just the punch line.