WBAL’s Rob Roblin was a skilled storyteller — he made sure people knew how he felt, his family said. And people responded to ...

If you haven’t been asleep for the past 20 years, you’ll probably recognize this exchange as a dad joke. The term dad joke is credited to a June 20, 1987, editorial in the Gettysburg Times.

It might be best to think of the dad joke not as a kind of joke but as a kind of performance, one that involves a teller – the dad – and an audience: his kids, friends of his kids, his spouse.

The term dad joke is credited to a June 20, 1987, editorial in the Gettysburg Times. Writer Jim Kalbaugh praised fathers’ telling of groan-inducing jokes to their children – or, importantly ...

Dad jokes are basically one-liners, a classic form used by such legendary stand-ups as Henny Youngman and Rodney Dangerfield, Federman says. What they do not have is an elaborate set-up or backstory.

I didn't want to believe that my dad was stealing from his job as a traffic cop, but when I got home, all the signs were there. I just spent $300 on a limo and learned it doesn't come with a driver.