Top 10 Best Characters in Typical Jokes

Important! This list is not about memes but traditional jokes. The 'joke characters' are not movie or video game characters included as a joke, but the usual people or other living things (OK, Death is on the list, but he's personified) that we tell jokes about.

I am surprised that there is not a list like this yet (December 2018). There is even an absurd joke:

The fox, the wolf, the aggressive piglet, the blonde, the policeman, two cows, and the mother-in-law come into the pub. The man at the bar asks: " Are you joking?"

(I admit this is not funny. It is a direct translation of a Hungarian joke and is not funny anymore in English.)

1. Mathematicians

   The statistician never goes on flights. His friends ask him why.

   - I am always afraid of bombs. I calculated the chance of a bomb being on board while I am on the plane. It is pretty low, but you never know.

   Two weeks later, the friend meets him on an aeroplane.

   - Hey! What made you change your mind?

   - I didn't change my mind. However, I calculated the chance of two bombs being on board while I am on the plane. It is satisfyingly low. So I just took a bomb with me.

2. Doctors

   - Congratulations, you can only thank your strong body for your recovery.

   - Good to hear, I was just about to pay you.

3. Computers

   The artificial intelligence gets interrogated.

   - You have to answer two questions. 1. Will a man ever land on Mars? 2. If so, will the first person to land on Mars be an American?

   - Yes.

   - What is yes?

   - Yes, sir.

4. Policemen

   When you get a punishment for exceeding the speed limit or parking in the wrong place, you can't help thinking about policeman jokes!

5. Musicians

   The joke was originally told about Brahms. So Brahms listens to a bunch of friends playing his string quartet. No euphemisms, it was dreadful to listen to. The master gets asked by one of his friends:

   - Did you like our performance? Was the tempo great?

   - The tempos were great. Maybe yours was the best one.

6. Szeklers

   In Hungary, there are lots of jokes about Szeklers (the Hungarians who live in the middle of Romania), depicting them as peasants who think slowly and logically and talk very little.

7. Bears

   The one that is stupid but thinks he isn't, has a deep voice, is sometimes aggressive, and befriends the wolf and the fox.

8. Death

9. Two cows

10. Vermont people

    The farmers in Vermont, according to jokes, give true, relevant, and proper replies to questions, but the information the interrogator requires is always missing.