DEFINITION OF CORNY.
- Of or abounding in corn. Informal.
- Old-fashioned, trite, or lacking in subtlety: corny jokes.
- Mawkishly sentimental: a corny soap opera.
http://dictionary.infoplease.com/corny
Funny corny jokes.
Why did the man run around his bed?
Because he wanted to catch up on his sleep!
Where do tough chickens come from?
Hard boiled eggs!
A corny joke often makes you groan because it is old, stale or stupid, but it may make you laugh. For example: when the comedian says, "Take my wife . . . please!.
You probably heard it before and it's silly but you chuckle anyway. For more corny one-liners see my hub: "Tribute to Henny Youngman - King of the One-Liners/"
A neutron walked into a bar and asked, "How much for a drink?" The bartender replied, "For you, no charge."
An Indian (American) was playing fetch with his dog on the edge of a cliff. Of course, at one point he accidentally threw the stick over the edge and the poor dog went leaping after it. The Indian paused and then reluctantly went to the edge to look down. To his dismay, there lay poor fluffy, dead. He shook his head and said, "Dog-gone."
Ha! I sent my students to a good BBC site to review novels for the state exam, and I told them that the videos are good but a little bit "corny." They looked at me and literarlly said, "Huh?" "Cheesy?" I said. "Ohhhh...." Maybe corny jokes are over their heads. LOL.
You asked for it;
Q. What did the baby corn say to the mama corn?
A. “Where’s pop corn?”
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