Essentially a very long meandering joke that has all sorts of side-tracks and irrelevant bits before reaching the punchline. The British comedian Ronnie Corbett

Essentially a very long meandering joke that has all sorts of side-tracks and irrelevant bits before reaching the punchline. The British comedian Ronnie Corbett told these regularly on TV [0] in the 70s/80s. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Corbett#The_Two_Ronnies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Corbett#The_Two_Ronnies