Simpson-case-detective Mark Fuhrman the notable exception, can claim never to have made an ethnic remark, told an ethnic joke, stereotyped or demeaned some group.

This exchange (994-1028), easily the funniest scene in the play, becomes a clever word-play that doubles as an ethnic joke on Carthaginians as rich, sly merchants (mercator, 1016).

It is not supposed to be descriptive--much less analytical--just discriminatory, like a racial or sexual slur on an ethnic joke.

In Krakow, the novel's comic scenes did not hold up well in the glare of the power relations that underlie ethnic jokes. When I was growing up in a Massachusetts community that had a French church, an Italian church, and a Polish church, I heard many ethnic jokes about each group.

They embrace him as a charismatic, conservative man with four wives who speaks their language at political rallies and makes inside ethnic jokes. Another source of power for Zuma is South Africa's electoral system, which is not constituency-based, but proportion-based.

He operated under a code as old the Borscht Belt: Go far - ethnic jokes, sex jokes, ribbing Carson for his many marriages - but make sure everyone knows it's for fun.

One such study focusing on ethnic humour was conducted by Oshima (2000) using a mixed methods survey on ethnic jokes in Hawaii, which is a multi-ethnic Oceanic State of USA.

Currently Kenya Kona series is over, but its ethnic jokes still live on recorded tapes.

Ethnic jokes are offensive and bathroom humor will gross people out.

Cotter, who was named Canada's Comedian of the Year four times, entertained with a mix of ethnic jokes from the various countries in which he's performed, humour about family life, and most hilarious of all, jokes about relationships.

The magazine also reasoned, "This is not one of those crude, disparaging ethnic jokes we've heard our fair share of on many a school-bus ride.

If you are blond woman or from an ethnic group chances are you don't enjoy blond jokes or ethnic jokes. You don't share the same stereotypical background assumptions that make the joke "funny." Further, "inside jokes" can be very hurtful and interpersonally distancing when told in the presence of others.

Apart from ethnic jokes, Jobrani's show also includes common comedic themes such as clueless parents and his newborn son learning to breast feed -- but from a different point of view.Aa

"These include the three men Englishman, Irishman Scotsman type and ethnic jokes," said Prof Beard.

Several important cycles not directly related to the country's political leadership are also represented, including ethnic jokes about Georgians and the Chukchi people of Arctic Siberia, the enormous series of jokes in the form of questions to and satirical answers from Armenian Radio, and jokes about the legendary peasant general of the Russian Civil War, Vasilii Ivanovich Chapaev.