Dudley LeBlanc tells Groucho Marx a joke in French

Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc of Abbeville, Louisiana tells Groucho Marx a joke in French on the game show You Bet Your Life (1951)
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[@hershellumiere]

Everytime I think I am getting better at it someone talks like this quickly and I miss a good half of it.

[@Louisianish]

haha Trust me, I can empathize! But in our defense, jokes are inherently more difficult to understand in any language, especially if they include a play on words or very specific cultural references. And they always tend to tell the jokes really quickly and/or they and others are laughing while they tell the joke. The punchline especially is always more difficult for me to get.

[@Louisianish]

By the way, I’ve also experienced something similar with old recordings of jokes told in English from 50+ years ago, and it’s usually due to cultural references from that time period that no longer make sense to a contemporary audience.