What a strange article relative to its title. It provides one complete example of a joke, and then admits that no one would actually find it funny these days. I

What a strange article relative to its title. It provides one complete example of a joke, and then admits that no one would actually find it funny these days. It seems to be more about the fact that scatalogical humor as a category has been considered funny for thousands of years. I wonder if there are real examples of jokes that have remained funny for thousands of years. There are ancient comedic writings like the Greek comedies, but from the little I've read of those the humor doesn't really come across either, at least in modern English, though it's also clearly heavily scatalogical.