The winning joke, as voted on LaughLab was:

A couple of New Jersey hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesn't seem to be breathing, his eyes are rolled back in his head.

The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls the emergency services.

He gasps to the operator: “My friend is dead! What can I do?”

The operator, in a calm soothing voice says: “Just take it easy. I can help.

First, let's make sure he's dead.”

There is a silence, then a shot is heard. The guy's voice comes back on the line. He says: “OK, now what?"

LaughLab, an Internet experiment into humor, was conducted by psychologist Richard Wiseman, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, and the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Running from September 2001 to October 2002, the project collected over 40,000 jokes submitted from the worldwide public, and around 2 million votes were cast on what was the funniest.

is it just me, or is that joke just not funny...

Nah it's not just you David....

Infinity...I have to ask..... It's one big joke isn't it?

The joke apparently came from an early Goon Show, and is credited to Spike Milligan.. so it 's funnier now

:/

I mean it's funny... but definitely not the funniest joke I've ever heard. Maybe the 8 gazillion other jokes were shit or something. Who knows!

they had cellphones on the early Goon Shows?

not that i was around then to remember if they did of course

hehe pretz... the original joke used two tin cans and a long bit of string.

/me doesnt understands the joke... why a shot is heard?