‘Tis the season to be jolly. ‘Tis the season to recite
lawyer jokes. Lawyer jokes are ubiquitous right now. Picked up the state bar
news, found an article on lawyer jokes. Received an email addressed to evidence
teachers, and it contained humorous videos. Seems we bump into lawyer jokes
everywhere this holiday season.
Because you
might enjoy them, I’m passing some of them along with places you can find them
– they might make suitable gifts.
First,
there is the perfect stocking stuffer for a lawyer who dislikes lawyer jokes,
and it is a new book entitled Comebacks for Lawyer Jokes: The Restatement ofRetorts, by Malcolm Kushner, Museum of Humor.com Press (2015) – only $9.95 with
Amazon Prime. This will arm your lawyer friend for those lawyer jokes that
inevitably get told at cocktail parties. This book provides retorts to insert
before the punch line at the end of the lawyer joke. Examples:
“Why are lawyers so good at
racquetball?”
Before they
say: “Because they stoop so low.”
You say:
“They know their way around a court.”
“What’s the
difference between a lawyer and a skunk?”
Before they
say: “Nobody wants to his a skunk.”
You say:
“With a lawyer, nothing is ever black and white.”
Second, in
the December 2015 NWLawyer bar magazine for the state of Washington, John
Gayton’s article entitled “A Priest, an Engineer and a Lawyer Walk into a Bar.
. .:Lawyers, Humor and a Few Good Jokes, unashamedly offers lawyer jokes and
some online videos. For example, watch:
by David Kazzie which has had 1,780,226 hits - some folks find the dark humor funny.
Third, a law professor, who teaches
evidence passed along Jimmy Kimmel’s “Lie Witness News” clips. While they don’t
make fun of lawyers, they are lawyer humor. Only a law professor would see
their value as lead-in videos for teaching Evidence Rule 611 and discussing
witness suggestibility. Here are some of the professor’s favorites:
“Presidents'Day Edition”
Heard or
seen anything amusing this holiday season?
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