How is the joke "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side" a joke?

Question

I never found it funny, so I don't get it.

Answer 1

Kudos to paintedhorse30!!! you are a geniuses if you came up with all that haha, thanks for entertaining!

Answer 2

its supposed to be funny? i never got it either...  

Answer 3

lol paintedhorse30

but yes the joke asks for something that makes you think that there is a joke but there is none.   Since it has been blown out of proportion the original meaning has been lost.

Answer 4

You obviously don't get it. Too bad.

Try this:

A horse walked into a bar. The bartender said, "Why the long face?"

Answer 5

I didn't think it was funny either...

But I guess that when you get asked that question/joke you're supposed to expect something different.

Instead, you just get a very logical, straightforward answer: To get to the other side.

Answer 6

Yeah, I think it was suppose to be a little kid joke.

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

BARACK OBAMA : The chicken crossed the road because it was time

for change ! The chicken wanted change !

JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he

recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all

the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON : When I was First Lady, I personally helped that

little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me

uniquely  qualified to ensure right  from Day One that every

chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the

road. But then, this really isn't about me.

GEORGE W. BUSH : We don't really care why the chicken crossed the

road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the

road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There

is no middle ground here.

d**k CHENEY : Where's my gun?

COLIN POWELL : Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see

the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

BILL CLINTON : I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is

your definition of chicken?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken.

JOHN KERRY : Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I

am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was

misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and

will remain against it.

AL SHARPTON : Why are all the chickens white? We need some black

chickens.

DR. PHIL : The problem we have here is that this chicken won't

realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of

the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the

road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's

acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new

problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems,

which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of

having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which

is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he

can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest

of the chickens.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a

chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the

other side of the road.

NANCY GRACE : That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty !

You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN : To steal the job of a decent,   hardworking

American.

MARTHA STEWART : No one called me to warn me which way that

chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market

to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No

little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS : Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a

toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've

not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY : To die in the rain, alone.

JERRY   FALWELL : Because the chicken was g*y! Can't you people

see the plain truth? That's why they call it the 'other side.'

Yes, my friends, that chicken is g*y. And if you eat that chicken,

you will become g*y too. I say we boycott all chickens until we

sort out  this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with

seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side.'   That chicken

should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as

that.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road.

Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good

enough.

BARBARA WALTERS : Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we

will be listening to the chicken tell, for  the first time, the

heart warming story of  how it  experienced a serious case of

molting, and went on to  accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing

the road.

ARISTOTLE : It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads

together, in peace.

BILL GATES : I have just released eChicken2008, which will not

only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important

documents, and balance your checkbook.   Internet Explorer is an

integral part of eChicken2008.   This new platform is much more

stable and will never

reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN : Did the chicken really cross the road, or did

the road move beneath the chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS : Did I miss one?

Answer 7

It was funny when it was first heard, because you think it is a joke but its not, but everyone knows it and its not really funny anymore.

Answer 8

i think maybe its just supposed to be a sarcstic joke to do when theres like akward silences and stuff kinda just work off the joke

Answer 9

i think it's a joke that can have lots of punch lines, and it's a silly answer

it crossed the road cuz it needed to

it's just a silly thing

people use that joke in english all the time

i (sadly) don't see it leaving our language for a long time to come