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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 ...

The practice, Kalbaugh wrote, was “one of the great traditions of fatherhood worth preserving.” The term stayed remarkably dormant until the internet age: The first entry in Urban Dictionary was in ...