WHY KIDS ARE LOVIN’ DAD JOKES

Cheesy gags are troll relief

DAD jokes are back in fashion as young people embrace “safe” humour to combat online nastiness, an expert claims.

They are booming in popularity with millions of people following online sites to get a daily fix.

Experts reckon the rise of cruel internet trolls has led users to look for cheesy relief.

Examples include: “At work we have a printer called Bob Marley – it’s always jammin” and: “I’ve just burned my Hawaiian pizza, I should have put it on Aloha temperature.”

Dad-of-two Stanley Dubinsky, a professor at the University of South Carolina in the US, said: “We live in an age of a new nastiness.

“It’s sort of like: ‘We’re going to just laugh innocently for a little while.’ There’s a comfort in that.”

Fans have described sites dedicated to dad jokes as “fantastically funny” and a “great way to make myself laugh”.

One wrote: “Brilliant. Totally stupid but had me in stitches. Love it.” That graveyard looks overcrowded. People must be dying to get in there.

At first I didn’t like having a beard. Then it grew on me.

I used to work in a shoe recycling shop. It was sole destroying.

What do you call a man with a spade on his head? Doug.

What vegetable do plumbers hate? Leeks.

I wouldn’t buy anything with Velcro. It’s a total rip-off.