Talk:Drummer jokes

Is this really worthy of wiki bandwidth? heidimo 02:44, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * Put and  on the case and let's find out! Ritchie333 (talk)  (cont)  14:21, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Though he's far from dumb, my spidey senses tell me there may be a Ringo Starr angle here. Beyond that I'll just note that the author of I Drum, Therefore I Am: Being and Becoming a Drummer seems to be confused about the logical order of becoming something and being that thing; there might be a drummer joke in that right there. EEng 16:10, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hey! I play drums! This draft is pure OR, I say! Everyone knows the viola players are the real butt of musician jokes. How do you prevent your violin from getting stolen? Put it in a viola case. Lev!vich 03:27, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Paging the much-missed . EEng 03:30, 31 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Miss you too! I should try to make more time to edit again, but grad school does keep one busy.


 * There are a handful of serious RS on musician jokes as profession-specific folklore, mostly as you say focusing on violists:


 * Knowing the Score: The Transmission of Musician Jokes among Professional and Semi-Professional Musicians Groce, Nancy. New York Folklore; Cooperstown, N.Y. Vol. 22, Iss. 1, (Jan 1, 1996): 37.
 * No Laughing Matter: The Viola Joke Cycle as Musicians' Folklore Carl Rahkonen, Western Folklore, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Winter, 2000), pp. 49-63
 * Viola Jokes: A Study of Second String Humor, from Dundes, A., & Bronner, S. J. (2007). The meaning of folklore: The analytical essays of Alan Dundes. 247 ff. (This one has lots of good examples if you're into that kind of thing.)


 * It would probably be defensible to merge this draft with Viola jokes under Musician jokes, with sections on violists, drummers, sopranos, banjoists, and conductors. FourViolas (talk) 16:03, 31 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Don't see why we can't do that, the draft is only 1.8k of prose which isn't a great deal. The reason this is at draft is because it was deleted at AfD (albeit 14 years ago, and this version is far better sourced). Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  17:10, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

I changed the name of this article from drummer joke to drummer jokes because this article is not about one particular joke, but about the genre of drummer jokes. Kingturtle 17:01, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Deletion of the Jokebook
Jimbo Wales has announced that he will be deleting the Jokebook from Wikibooks within 24 hours. See Wikibooks:Staff lounge. Uncle G 16:30, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't get it
I really don't see what's so funny about these drummer jokes. Not that I don't get them (I'm a guitarist), but they just really don't seem that funny. I've never noticed drummer's being dumb or destructive (and what's wrong with that anyways?). - TMFSG

I've been a band member for many years and these drummer jokes pop up often among members for laughs. But that's not to say that there aren't jokes for the trumpet players, the clarinet players, etc. for the purpose of filling a stereotype--usually one that no one has really noticed before, but upon hearing the joke they'll agree with it. I have known many great percussionists, and yes, a few of them were "dumb" in the sense that they belonged to elitist cliques that had a general dislike toward the band members.

Other jokes
What about jokes about drummers, like the exploding drummers in This Is Spinal Tap? Yoninah (talk) 11:27, 31 December 2020 (UTC)