A knight to remember

[Scooter]

A British Jew is waiting in line to be knighted by the Queen. He is to kneel in front of her and recite a sentence in Latin when she taps him on the shoulders with her sword. However, when his turn comes, he panics in the excitement of the moment and forgets the Latin. Then, thinking fast, he recites the only other sentence he knows in a foreign language, which he remembers from the Passover seder:

"Ma nishtana ha layla ha zeh mi kol ha laylot."

Puzzled, Her Majesty turns to her advisor and whispers, "Why is this knight different from all other knights?"

[MG McAnick]

Because that's (sort of) what he said only without the "K"s.

[Scooter]

It's not funny anymore if you have to tell people that it's a pun.

[RayThom]

[Lord Jim]

[Bicycle Bill]

-"BB"-

[TPFKA@W]

It's not funny anymore if you have to tell people that it's a pun.

Why would you expect people to get this, other than perhaps Sue?

[Scooter]

Because even if one didn't know the translation of the particular words he used, the fact that they came from the Passover seder still produces enough of an association to make it funny.

[TPFKA@W]

I only vaguely know what passover seder is, being around lazy, non-practicing Jews as I am, so I had to look into it to understand it.

Now that I know what it means and have put it all in place, ha ha ho ho hee hee.

[Long Run]

Is it kosher to say "oy vey"?

[Lord Jim]

Because even if one didn't know the translation of the particular words he used, the fact that they came from the Passover seder still produces enough of an association to make it funny.

Well, I got it without any explanations...

[Joe Guy]

So I copied, "Ma nishtana ha layla ha zeh mi kol ha laylot" and pasted it into Google and a message said, "Did you mean: Ma nishtana ha layla ha zeh mi kol ha leilot."

BWAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA.... Google is funny.

[Bicycle Bill]

Because even if one didn't know the translation of the particular words he used, the fact that they came from the Passover seder still produces enough of an association to make it funny.

Well, I got it without any explanations...

Ditto, even though I'm a backsliding Catholic myself.  Took a moment or two, but it's not like I had to Google it or anything.

-"BB"-

[Burning Petard]

OK cultural snobbery. I thought it was very nice. I thought 'everybody who listens to NPR' knows the seder begins with a question, asked by the youngest person present. . . and ends with 'Next year in Jerusalem.'

My wife didn't and I had to explain it to her. Then she laughed and said, 'that IS funny.' Then I unkindly replied 'Any joke you have to explain is not funny.
But what do I know? I never been to a seder.

snailgate.

[Econoline]

I'm not Jewish but my wife, daughters, and in-laws are, so I've been to plenty of seders. I got it, but it took me a second or two...and somehow that brief hesitation for thought made it even funnier.