20 Examples of Jokes with direct and indirect speech

Jokes with direct and indirect speech

The direct and indirect speech they are two different forms of enunciation. In direct speech, something said by another person is referred to, transcribed verbatim, while in indirect speech the narrator transmits what someone said. For example:

The choice of one speech or another will depend on the style of the narrator, but also on the expressive needs of the moment, since the Direct speech reproduces the original conditions of enunciation, while indirect speech allows the narrator to mediate and interpret.

Direct to indirect speech in jokes

Direct and indirect speech is particularly noticeable when it comes to jokes, jokes, or narratives humorous, in which a series of fictitious events is related whose outcome is funny, comic or imaginary.

This can be done directly, that is, by reproducing dialogues, comments and situations as if they were occurring in the present moment, or indirectly, through the point of view of the narrator.

Examples of jokes with direct speech

1. In a restaurant, the customer calls the waiter:

• Waiter, there's a fly on my plate!
• It's the picture on the plate, sir.
• But it is moving!
• It is then a cartoon!

1. At school, the teacher asks Jaimito:

• How did David kill Goliath?
• With a motorcycle, teacher.
• No, Jaimito! He went with a sling.
• Oh, but did you want the make of the bike?

1. Jaimito tells his mother pregnant with him:

• Mom, what do you have in your belly?
• A baby that your dad gave me.
• Dad, don't give any more babies to Mom because she eats them!

1. Jaimito runs into his mother's room:

• Mom, Mom, do the chocolate candies walk?
• No, son, the candies don't walk.
• Ah, so I ate a cockroach.

1. At the hospital:

• Doctor, doctor, how was the operation?
• Operation? Wasn't it an autopsy?

1. Two children talk:

• My father knows three languages ​​perfectly.
• Mine knows many more.
• Are you a polyglot?
• No, dentist.

1. A man walks into a pet store:

• Hello, I want to know the price of this parrot.
• One thousand dollars.
• Why so much?
• Well, he speaks English, French and German.
• And this other one?
• Two thousand dollars.
• And what can he do?
• He speaks Russian, Chinese, Greek and recites fragments of literary works.
• And that other one over there?
• That one is worth ten thousand dollars.
• And what does that know how to do?
• Well, I haven't heard him say a word, but the other two call him "boss."

1. During dinner, Jaimito asks his mother:

• Mom, is it true that we descend from monkeys?
• I don't know, honey, your father never introduced me to his family.

1. A child runs into the house:

• Mom, the teacher says I'm always distracted!
• Child, your house is next door.

1. Jaimito arrives very happy at his house:

• Dad, dad, I cheated on the bus driver.
• How so, son?
• Yes, I paid for the ticket and then I didn't get on.

Examples of jokes with indirect speech

1. Two children are late for class and the teacher asks them why they were not on time. The first responds that he was dreaming that he traveled the whole world and visited hundreds of countries, and the second boy who had to go to the airport to pick him up.
2. On a farm, a man asks another if he has already saddled the horse. She says yes, but that there has been no way to make her sit up.
3. Once upon a time there was a man so, so, so, so, that they called him a bell.
4. This was such a foolish man that he sold his car to buy gas for him.
5. Once upon a time there was a child so, so stupid, that when the teacher erased the blackboard, he would erase his notes from the notebook.
6. It is not the same to say that a trapeze artist has brains, to say that a trapeze artist has brains.
7. A man comes to his house drenched in sweat. His wife asks him why and says that he came running after the bus, because that way he could save six pesos. His wife tells him to do the same tomorrow behind a taxi and thus save forty.
8. Once upon a time there was a cat called a cigar. He went out one day and... they smoked it.
9. This was such a slow postman that when he delivered the letters they were already historical documents.
10. This was such an ugly child that when he was born the spankings were given to his parents by the doctor.