The Big Apple: “My father walks into a bar…” (bar joke)

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

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006.

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

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Oct. 17, 1931, Turf Play, p. 7.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

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Entry from September 25, 2016

“My father walks into a bar…” (bar joke)

“A guy walks into a bar...” is a typical form of what has been called the “bar joke.” One version—an anti-joke—is:

“A man walked into a bar...and stayed there for the rest of my childhood.”

“So this man walks into a bar...and he stays there for the rest of my childhood...” was posted on Twitter on April 14, 2010. “A man walked into a bar… and he stated there my entire fucking childhood” was posted on Twitter on October 31. 2012. “My father walks into a bar… And stays there for the rest of my childhood” was posted on Reddit on September 25, 2016.

Twitter
Isabella V
‏@isarime
So this man walks into a bar...and he stays there for the rest of my childhood…
11:08 AM - 14 Apr 2010

Twitter
Bad Joke Eel
‏@BadJokeEel_
A man walked into a bar…
and he stated there my entire fucking childhood.
9:20 PM - 31 Oct 2012

Twitter
Paige Fenton
‏@Paigeaf7
“So my dad walks into a bar....And spends the rest of my childhood there..” “Oh I’m sorry that was an accident.. Like my birth” @MaddNj 😭
11:36 PM - 20 Jun 2014
Avenel, NJ

Twitter
Nick
‏@FroyoNinja
A man walked into a bar
And stayed there for the rest of my childhood
10:33 PM - 10 Sep 2015

Reddit
zues1219 September 11, 2015
A man walks into a bar.
And stays there my entire childhood.

Twitter
ColleenElizabeth
‏@Satans_monster
A man walks into a bar, and doesn’t walk back out for half my childhood.
5:20 PM - 7 Oct 2015

Reddit
A man walks into a bar…
submitted October 17, 2015 by die247
and stays there my entire childhood.

Twitter
Carson
‏@nonstopforest
A man walks into a bar. He stays there for most of my childhood.
12:15 PM - 23 Nov 2015

Twitter
moon man
‏@OGMasedgod
A man walked into a bar.....
...and stayed there for the rest of my childhood
1:42 AM - 13 Sep 2016

Reddit
My father walks into a bar…
submitted September 25, 2016 by Charcoalthefox
And stays there for the rest of my childhood.

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