When a joke either requires too much background information or requires too little, therefore making the joke boring.
Person 1: “What do you call a washing machine?”
Person 2: “I don’t know”
Person 1: “A nuke”
Person 2: “Why?”
Person 1: “Because in 1947 a group of scientists discovered if you put a nuke in your washing machine, it turns into a nuke as the inside is constantly rotating.”
Person 2: “Carter Joke”
Person 2: “I don’t know”
Person 1: “A nuke”
Person 2: “Why?”
Person 1: “Because in 1947 a group of scientists discovered if you put a nuke in your washing machine, it turns into a nuke as the inside is constantly rotating.”
Person 2: “Carter Joke”
by moosh May 7, 2021

Table Joke: a flat out terrible joke that is usually used as a conversation filler EX: Why did the chicken cross the road?
by Runawayhomelessman January 31, 2017

by TheCapnREEEEEEEEE February 18, 2020

A joke that causes more distress than joy from the recipients of the joke. The person who says the joke will usually start laughing in an unbearable lil' giggle that will cause even more pain to the listeners
JoStar: "Why does an asteroid taste better than a comet?"
Innocent bystander 1: "Why?"
JoStar: "because its a little meteor!"
Innocent bystander 2: "That is such a JoStar joke bruh."
Innocent bystander 3: "I will end you."
JoStar: *giggling like a little beech*
Innocent bystander 1: "Why?"
JoStar: "because its a little meteor!"
Innocent bystander 2: "That is such a JoStar joke bruh."
Innocent bystander 3: "I will end you."
JoStar: *giggling like a little beech*
by Aim For North August 22, 2022

by Barry McCockinher69 April 13, 2022

by Xxjoe_mamaxX October 19, 2021

Someone who steals, or poaches, other people's jokes and takes credit for the joke. Poaching usually occurs when a joke poacher heres another person tell a joke and repeats said joke in a louder more obnoxious way for all to hear.
John mumbled a joke under his breath. Will heard the joke and repeated it loudly in a crowded room. Everyone laughed at the hilarious joke and Will took credit for coming up with it. Will is a joke poacher.
by ash ketchum173 March 27, 2012
