Grape joke

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A Grape joke is a specific type of question - answer joke. The listener is not expected to provide the answer, but to ask for it to be provided by the teller of the joke.

• A question: "What's purple and ..."
• An answer: "... grape ..."

Examples:

• Q: What's purple and goes up and down?
• A: A grape in an elevator.

• Q: What's purple and flies?
• A: Super-Grape!

• Q: What's purple and vies for world domination?
• A: Alexander the Grape.

• Q: What's purple and commutes?
• A: An abelian grape.

• Q: What's purple and lives in the ocean?
• A: Moby Grape. (Hence the rock group of the same name).

There are variations on Grape Jokes, such as Gooseberry jokes - "What's green and hairy and..." and Tomato jokes "What's red and..."

See also

• Knock-knock joke
• Elephant joke