“A termite walks into a bar and asks, ‘Is the bar tender here?’” (bar joke)
“A guy walks into a bar…” is a typical form of what has been called the “bar joke.” One of the oldest and most popular of bar jokes is:
“A termite walks into a bar and asks, ‘Is the bar tender here?’”
The joke has been cited in print since the 1990s.
“What does a termite order at the restaurant?”/“A table for two!” is another termite joke.
Google Books
U.S. News & World Report
Volume 115, Issues 17-25
1993
Pg. 109:
Recent example: “A termite walks into a bar and says: ‘Is the bar tender here?’”
Yucks Digest
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 98 19:35:46 -0700
From: Peter Langston
Subject: Bar Jokes
To: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
(...)
(14) A termite walks into a bar and says, “Is the bar tender here?”
4 January 1999, Sacramento (CA) Bee, “Top of the page: Humor,” pg. D2:
A termite walks into a bar and says, “Is the bar tender here?”
A Prairie Home Companion (NPR show)
A Prairie Home Companion - Jokes 1999
April 7, 1999
(...)
A termite walks into a bar and asks for the bar tender.
Marian Thorpe,Age: 17
Google Books
A Guy Goes into a Bar:
A Joe King Book
By Al Tapper and Peter Press
Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Universal Company
2000
Pg. 28:
A termite walks into a bar and says, “ls the bar tender here?”
Google Books
A Guy Walks Into A Bar…:
501 Bar Jokes, Stories, Anecdotes, Quips, Quotes, Riddles and Wisecracks
By Michael Lewis
New York, NY: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc.
2005
Pg. 76:
A termite walks into a bar and asks, Where s the bar tender?
Tom Cahillane
@dmcscorp
A termite walks into a bar and asks, “Is the bar tender here?”
www.alcoholichumor.com
1:25 PM - 4 Mar 09
Tanner Eldredge
@TannerEldredge
So a termite walks into a bar and says “Is the bar “tender” here?” Hahahah
9:09 PM - 4 Nov 13