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Joker Reads a Joke, also known as Joker Laughs at Own Joke, refers to a GIF based on a scene from 2019 film Joker in which the main character Joker reads a knock-knock joke at the Franklin Murray show and lets out a laugh. Starting in October 2019, the GIF gained popularity in GIF captions on iFunny.

Origin

On October 4th, 2019, American psychological thriller film Joker premiered in the United States.^[1] In one scene of the film, Joker, a guest on Murray Franklin show, reads a knock-knock joke about a woman whose son had been killed by a drunk driver, and lets out a laugh. On October 6th, iFunny user SavoirFaire posted the scene to iFunny, with the post gaining over 3,100 smiles in ten days (shown below).^[6]

- Knock knock.
- Who's there?
- It's the police, m'am! Your son's been hit by a drunk driver. He's dead.

On October 7th, iFunny user Tywin posted a captioned GIF based on the video, with the post gaining over 840 smiles in three days (shown below).^[2]

Spread

In the following days, the GIF gained significant popularity on iFunny, used in multiple captioned GIF posts during that period. For example, on October 8th, iFunny user Thuaidh posted a meme referencing a murder committed by the incarcerated iFunny user Saboteur, with the post receiving over 2,500 smiles in two days (shown below, left).^[3] A post by iFunny user Doffy gained over 1,600 smiles in the same period (shown below, right).^[4]

On October 8th, 2019, iFunny user Dronom posted an uncaptioned version of the GIF.^[5]

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