Do you get THIS joke?

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I understand it, but don't see what is so funny about it.

^^ Yaaye I believed this also! ^^ I believe that I have learned that if I do not understand a happy joke, then often this is referring to a happy rude matter.

First off, I didn't get the joke... wiki time:

This is what I found:

A double entendre or adianoeta[1] is a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways. Often the first meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so; often risqué, inappropriate, or ironic.

Double entendres often arise in the replies given to inquiries. For example, the response to the question "What is the difference between ignorance and apathy" may be "I don't know and I don't care". The dual meaning arises in the iteration (though from a first-person perspective) of the definitions of both terms within the reply ("I don't know" defining ignorance, and "I don't care" defining apathy). Of course, in the more obvious sense, the reply may simply indicate that the replier doesn't know or care about what difference there is between the two.

Another instance of double entendre involves responding to a seemingly innocuous sentence that could have a sexual meaning with the phrase "that's what she said". An example might be if one were to say "It's too big to fit in my mouth" upon being served a large sandwich, someone else could say "That's what she said," as if the statement were a reference to oral sex. This phrase was used in the "Wayne's World" Saturday Night Live skits, and was a recurring joke on the US sitcom The Office. The phrase "...as the actress said to the bishop" can be used in a similar way.


.....so in knowing that-I still don't really get the joke, since nothing ironic or innappropriate was said-at least, not in any way we know... all we know is that he gave her one.

In better understanding, I've looked up the joke several times, and wonder if it wasn't told to you correctly... considering many if them are innuendos, and the other information found.....
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One popular joke that simultaneously contains and defines a double entendre typically is told as:

"A girl walks into a bar and orders a double entendre... so the bartender gives it to her."
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This is how I found the "typical" telling of it on many many sites while trying to just figure out the meaning. After I read "so he gives it to her" over and over, site after site, my brain finally clicked and I thought, "what a perv!" lol.

The "gives it to her" thing makes a lot more sense to me than "so he gives her one."

I get it, but I don't think it's funny.

A "double entendre" is a phrase which means two things, one of which is sexual.

The bar tender "giving her one", is itself a double entendre. Hence the joke, we're supposed to think this is incredibly witty. (As opposed to incredibly sh***y. I've heard better jokes.)

I get it, but I don't think it's that funny.

I don't really understand it.

Yeah, I got the joke, too, it just wasn't funny.

What did the fish say when he ran into the wall?



...Dam.

I've heard the 'double entendre' joke several times and understood it the second time I heard it. However, it really doesn't matter how many times I heard it, I never found it funny. Nim's joke posted above me is more amusing

Ouch! That one made me laugh, too.

I haven't read any other responses yet, because I don't want to be influenced by anything anyone else says. I'm not sure if I "get it" or not. I understand that a double entendre is a phrase that can have two meanings, sometimes one with a vaguely sexual quality (but not necessarily). I also understand that Double Entendre is meant to sound like a drink she is ordering. That works; it sounds like a drink name. I also understand that there should be a second meaning.

"So he gives her one." Okay.... Does he perhaps give her two things? My gut feeling is that he gives her a drink AND possibly something sexual. To "give her one" can be a crude way of saying a sexual act. In fact, now, as I type it out, I realize that. "He gives her one" means both "He gives her the drink" AND "He does a sexual act with/to her." And that, in itself is a double entendre.

I didn't quite get it when I started to answer, but now I do. Or maybe I'm missing something. What I don't get is the humor of it. I get "play on words" humor, but I don't get vulgar "stick it to her" humor. More precisely, I don't understand how it can be funny enough to make people fall all over themselves laughing. If we're talking about a basic, crude sexual act by the bartender, on/with the woman, that's just kind of stupid, but not particularly funny. It's a play on words, and as such, kind of clever. But if the "humor" comes from sexual aspect of it, then I guess it takes a certain level of moronitude (yeah, I made that up) to find it side-splittingly hilarious.

Then again, plenty of people seem to enjoy those daytime TV talk shows with episode titles like, "My 14-year-old, 400-pound daughter dresses in revealing clothing and is trying to steal my man!!" Maybe crude sexual humor really is guffaw-till-you-drop funny to them.

Of course, maybe there is an aspect to that joke that truly is funny, and worthy of laughing aloud at, and I'm just missing it completely.

I'm not british.

I don't get it. Does it mean that instead of making some sly double entendre remark, he just flat out says something sexual (a "single entendre")? Why would that be funny?

Got it. Not really all that funny. Must be a cultural thing.

The Aristocrats!

Now THAT'S funny.

That is indeed pretty damn funny.