After all, your next promotion or pay rise may depend on it. "When the boss tells a joke that is not hilarious, the employee has to decide whether to fake laugh or not," study coauthor ...

Our daily life at work can get monotonous and burdensome, and some harmless jokes and pranks can lighten up the mood.

You have to admit that dad jokes — as dumb as they are — are still pretty darn funny. Which is why it's hard not to tell them. Even better than corny one-liners, however, are dark humor jokes.