The Big Apple: “A stoner, a Jedi and a surgeon walk into a bar…” (bar joke)

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

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Entry from February 29, 2020

“A stoner, a Jedi and a surgeon walk into a bar…” (bar joke)

“A guy walks into a bar...” is a typical form of what has been called the “bar joke.” A version was posted on Reddit—Jokes on November 16, 2019:

“OK so a stoner, a Jedi, and a surgeon walk into a bar. Blunt force trauma.”

A stoner smokes a blunt. A Jedi has the Force (a metaphysical and ubiquitous power in the Star Wars universe). A surgeon works in a trauma unit.

Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/moonchild0622 November 16, 2019
ok so a stoner, a jedi, and a surgeon walk into a bar.
Blunt force trauma.

Twitter
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@gunnbunni
“Ok, so a stoner, a jedi, and a surgeon walk into a bar…
Blunt force trauma.”
2:14 AM · Nov 16, 2019·Twitter for Android

Twitter
Hailey Smith
@ChrissyDaDoll
ok so a stoner, a jedi, and a surgeon walk into a bar.
blunt force trauma.
11:05 AM · Nov 16, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

Facebook
‎Antwain M. Jordan‎ to Dad Joke of the Day
November 17, 2019 ·
Ok… So a stoner, a jedi, and a surgeon walk into a bar.
Blunt Force Trauma.

Twitter
Carleen Ceraldi
@ceraldi_carleen
Ok guys,
So a stoner, a Jedi and a surgeon walk into a bar.
Blunt Force Trauma
4:04 PM · Nov 24, 2019·Twitter for Android

Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/StapleEm43 February 29, 2020
Stoner walks into a bar
A stoner, a Jedi and a surgeon walk into a bar
Blunt force trauma

Posted by Barry Popik
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