Who made knock knock jokes?

Answer 1

William Shakespeare created the Knock-Knock joke. The first recorded use was in Act two of his famous play wright, Macbeth. After the murder of king Duncan, a drunken scottish man knocks on the door of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The joke was in the exact same format but written in early Modern English. Shakespeare often threw in low-brow humor in his plays to captivate the audience. If the plays got boring, the audience would loose interest resulting in the loss of his reputation and money.

Answer 2

• WiLLiam Shakespeares

In Shakespeare's play Macbeth a comic relief character delivers a 20 line monologue and satire that makes reference to events of that time it follows the pattern of knock knock who's there? but it is done entirely by the character and knocks from off stage. The character is a hung over porter (in most performances drunk, but in the original he was hung over) that pretends he is the porter to the gates of hell welcoming sinners of different professions:

(Macbeth ActII, sciii)

Knock, knock, knock! Who's there, i' th' name of Beelzebub? Here's a farmer that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty. Come in time, have napkins enough about you, here you'll sweat for 't.

(this is a joke referring to a price drop in crops, as well as a joke about the heat in hell)

Knock, knock! Who's there, in th' other devil's name? Faith, here's an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale, who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. O, come in, equivocator.

(this passage is believed to be a reference to a trial of the Jesuits who were charged with equivocation speaking unclearly or speaking with double meaning)

Knock, knock, knock! Who's there? Faith, here's an English tailor come hither for stealing out of a French hose. Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose.

(the tailor is accused of stealing cloth while making breches, this is a joke about a fashion trend in Shakespearian times, also a pun for roasting the tailor's iron with the heat of hell)

Answer 3

on janurary in 1652 a little boy named sedrick was playing around to his friends and was going knock knock whos there and the principal walks in!! ever since then it has got around the world :)

Answer 4

A man named Ned Andreas.

Answer 5

dr. Knock knock Jonathan Right Knock III

Answer 6

ME!!