Why did the grape stop in the middle of the road?
Because it ran out of juice!
Because it ran out of juice!
"Ran out of juice" — same pun as the lemon and orange versions, but with a grape this time. "Juice" means both energy and the liquid inside the fruit. This one's a classic because grapes are THE juice fruit — grape juice is practically its whole identity. Running out of juice is existential for a grape.
Tell it as part of a fruit-crossing-the-road trilogy if you've already told the lemon or orange versions. By the third one, the audience groans before you even finish the setup. That's the goal.
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The word "corny" for bad jokes dates back to the 1930s — it originally referred to humor found in seed catalogs sent to corn farmers, which were famously full of terrible puns.
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