The knock-knock joke is a type of joke, probably the best-known format of the pun, and is a time-honored "call and answer" exercise.
It is a role-play exercise, with a punster and a recipient of wit.
The standard format has five lines:
- The punster: Knock knock!
- The recipient: Who's there?
- The punster: a variable response, sometimes involving a name (Doctor)
- The recipient: a repetition of the response followed by who? (Doctor who?)
- The punster: the punch line, which typically involves a pun-based misusage of the word set up during the response (How did you know?!)
Another example is: The punster: "Knock Knock!" The recipient: " Who's there?" The punster: " Boo!" The recipient: " Boo who?" The punster: "No need to cry, it's only a joke!"
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“The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)