Bunny joke
Bunny Jokes were a form of jokes , the beginning of the 1970s until the DDR , and then in the Federal Republic were popular.
construction
In its basic form, the action consists in the fact that a bunny visits a shop, a doctor, an authority or the like and asks the typical question “Hattu carrots?”. The punch line , often a simple play on words , follows in the answer. In variations, the bunny demands something unusual, such as B. cold coffee or something specific to rabbits, such as. B. carrot cake. For example:
“A rabbit comes into a record shop. He asks the saleswoman: "Hattu plates?" When she replies in the affirmative, the rabbit says: "Pump up Muttu!" "
The assumed inability of rabbits to pronounce certain sounds of human language correctly because of the large incisors plays an important role, especially consonant clusters : “Do you have carrots?” Becomes “Hattu carrots?” Or “Haddu carrots?”; In speech therapy, such a leveling from -st- to -tt- is called parasigmatism .
origin
The bunny joke originated in the GDR in the early 1970s as a political joke with a subversive tendency. Like the jokes about Radio Yerevan before, the bunny jokes in the GDR often caricatured the scarcity economy in real socialism. One of the earliest records of bunny jokes dates back to 1976, when West German visitors were told the following joke at the festival of political song :
“A rabbit comes into a pharmacy and asks:“ Hattu Möhrchen? ”The pharmacist answers“ No ”. The next day the rabbit comes back and asks: “Hattu Möhrchen?” The pharmacist answers “No” again. On the third day a sign hangs on the door: "No carrots today!" The rabbit complains to the pharmacist: "Hattu had carrots!" "
In West Germany, on the other hand, the bunny joke hardly ever surpassed the level of an ordinary joke . However, it was particularly popular with children and less with humorists, for example Rudi Carrell described the rabbit joke as "the stupidest thing that has ever existed in Germany", Dieter Hallervorden stated a "dark chapter of German humor levels".
Collections of bunny jokes
Books
- Bunny jokes. Hattu humor? Beautiful bunny jokes . Bastei, Bergisch Gladbach 1982, ISBN 3-404006-37-2 .
- Sigrid Utner (Ed.): Bunny Jokes . Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen / Taunus 1977, ISBN 3-8068-0410-9 .
- Do you already know? The best bunny jokes . Heyne, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-453-00703-4 .
Sound carrier
- Günter Willumeit : Do you have ears? ... do you want to hear rabbit jokes! , LP Polydor 2437 416 published 1977
- Jokes churning out - The best rabbit jokes , LP Zebra 91.533 (including Jo Brauner as studio spokesman)
- Bunny jokes - do you have carrots? , LP Europe 111 084.5 (MC Europe 511 084.0)
Secondary literature
- Patrick Bauer , did Hattu over? , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , November 10, 2017, pp. 56–60.
- Richard Schrodt: Strategies of improper speaking: irony and wit . In: Oswald Panagl, Robert Kriechbaumer (ed.): Sting against the zeitgeist: political cabaret, whispering jokes and subversive types of text . Böhlau, Vienna 2004.
- Henning Venske : Hattu carrots? In: Der Spiegel , 6/1977. Pp. 142-143.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hattu going over? SZ-Magazin , November 10, 2017, p. 60.
- ↑ Dieter Cherubim: "Seldom laughed like that ..." Are you allowed to laugh at speech defects? In: Tina Hoffmann (ed.): Humor: cross-border varieties of a cultural phenomenon . Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2008. p. 185.
- ^ Richard Schrodt: Strategies of improper speaking: irony and wit . P. 26.
- ↑ Henning Venske: Hattu carrots? , P. 143.