Why did the chicken cross the road?

Helen and Ollie, answer me this.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Okay, before we answer this, Laura, I want you to know that you giving us that voicemail was the moment in real time where I equally ever questioned that this was just a joke about...

Just an anti-joke.

Now, it doesn't mean that they innovated it, but a bit like the knock-knock thing coming from at Beth.

It looks like the Christie's minstrels, their whole thing, because, you know, the blackface wouldn't have been a novelty then.

Their whole thing to make them distinct from all the other blackface minstrel troops was they would say, why did the chicken cross the road? That was the thing they got the audience doing.

And so that's why it was known.