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[Peter4]

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Can anyone help me find a source of Thai jokes?
Thai-style jokes that are funny to Thai people.
Not easy to find.

I've asked two Thai tutors to bring me Thai jokes.
Both were mystified with my request.
Telling jokes as we do, doesn't seem to compute with them.
Yet they have plenty of Thai comedians on TV and at various shows.
Where do the jokes come from?

The Internet has many web sites of jokes in English.
But translating English jokes into Thai doesn't work.
I tried that.
The Thais don't laugh.
Well, they wait and look at me carefully, and when they figure out I am trying to tell a joke in Thai, then they laugh.

So what I am looking for are jokes in Thai style.
Short, simple, easy to understand.
Can anyone help?

Reason for asking:
Here in Chiangmai, I recently started attending the Toastmasters club.
At every meeting, there is a segment for telling jokes.
My plan is each joke I will tell twice: first Thai, then English.
That way, everybody can have some fun and learn a bit more about both languages.
I hope.

Thank you for any suggestions on where to find jokes in Thai style.

[ttthai]

How about this one:
http://board.narak.com/joke/

[Peter4]

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Thank you, "ttthai", but that's a very difficult site to use.
Even Google translate almost choked.
Perhaps suitable for fluent Thai speakers, but not for this farang who is still struggling with Manee, book 3.
Does anyone know of a source of simple & easy jokes, Thai-style?

Thank you.

[simonbournemouth]

.Does anyone know of a source of simple & easy jokes, Thai-style?

Rikker has made a number of posts on his blog;

http://rikker.blogspot.com/search/label ... results=20

[Peter4]

Rikker has made a number of posts on his blog

Perfect.
Exactly what I was hoping to find.
Thank you, Simon.

[Tender2]

Please tell me some jokes funny short, My friends are asked to me to tell them some jokes funny short, Because they are going to participate in a jokes competition and for this purpose they are collecting jokes from various resources. So, Please suggest me some jokes funny short for my friends.

[Toffeeman]

The Internet has many web sites of jokes in English.
But translating English jokes into Thai doesn't work.
I tried that.
The Thais don't laugh.
Well, they wait and look at me carefully, and when they figure out I am trying to tell a joke in Thai, then they laugh.

This is so true. Telling the actual joke is funnier than the joke. I end up laughing more as I try to explain it to a bemused friend.
If their TV is anything to go by, try stepping in some dog turd, add a few bell and whistle noises and they will fall about laughing.
Once a bird managed to score a bulls eye with its excrement landing on my shoulder. Well they found that hilarious and kept mentioning it for weeks after. I admit it was funny but not funny. I guess the fact that Mr Bean is so popular here really says it all.

[Rick Bradford]

If their TV is anything to go by, try stepping in some dog turd, add a few bell and whistle noises and they will fall about laughing.
Once a bird managed to score a bulls eye with its excrement landing on my shoulder. Well they found that hilarious and kept mentioning it for weeks after. I admit it was funny but not funny. I guess the fact that Mr Bean is so popular here really says it all.

Are you trying to suggest that the Thai sense of humour has not evolved beyond slapstick? Or that Mr Bean was not popular in places like the UK or Australia -- did they make the series thinking that English people would regard it as idiotic horseplay, but that Thais would love it?

I hope that's not what you're implying.

From my experience, Thai conversational humour contains, and values, clever banter just as much as we do in the West -- I have often heard a short interjection in a Thai group discussion bring the house down (usually too quick for me to understand).

Respect, please.