
比如说美剧《摩登家庭》里的爸爸菲尔(Phil),就经常用谐音梗讲一些冷段子,他跟家人们讲的段子,真的是名副其实的“dad joke”了。

A dad joke is a short joke, typically a pun, presented as a one-liner or a question and answer, but not a narrative. Generally inoffensive, dad jokes are stereotypically told by fathers among family, either with sincere humorous intent, or to intentionally provoke a negative reaction to its overly-simplistic humor.
It defines "dad joke" as "a wholesome joke of the type said to be told by fathers with a punchline that is often an obvious or predictable pun or play on words and usually judged to be endearingly corny or unfunny".
A dad joke is almost always pithy, and frequently corny. A writer for the Gettysburg Times wrote an impassioned defence of the genre in June 1987 under the headline "Don't ban the 'Dad' jokes; preserve and revere them".
Dad jokes are also easy to come by. They require no setup, context or segue. You can just drop a bad pun and immediately cash in on those eyerolls and smiles.
在Reddit论坛上,“dad jokes”社区有100多万订阅者,每小时都有好几个新帖子,网友们在那里分享搞笑又尴尬的笑话。脸书的线上视频“dad jokes”系列拥有约99.9万粉丝。在社交平台上,网友们也喜欢带上“#dadjoke”话题,打趣那些简单的双关笑话。
Dad jokes are simultaneously beloved and maligned. The Reddit page r/dadjokes where users go to share and enjoy “the jokes that make you laugh and cringe in equal measure,” has more than 1 million subscribers and amasses several new posts every hour. The online video series Dad Jokes has some 999,000 followers on Facebook. Twitter users, meanwhile, frequently call each other (and themselves) out for their simplest and squeaky-cleanest puns by tweeting “#dadjoke.”
* 爸爸故意将I'm hungry(我饿了)中的hungry理解成儿子的名字,变成了“我是hungry”。
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