@@bombabombom3603 He did indeed - before becoming the notorious R. L. Stine, he wrote several children's humor books as Jovial Bob Stine. Every site I saw lists him as the author of 101 Wacky Kid Jokes and I can't find any reports to the contrary.
I know this writer. I had his book with the monster jokes. "Mom, I hate my friend's guts." "Then leave them at the side of the plate and eat the rest of your dinner."
I like to imagine when Mike says he went through all this trouble to read the wacky jokes, "and you just sit there like an asshole", that he is really talking to one of the children from the other video.
You left us hanging on what the brother was going to give the parents for Christmas. I have a sense of incompleteness now. Rich's retort, while humorous, has nonetheless left me wanting.
This book is written by Jovial Bob Stine, also known as R.L. Stine Anybody who has ever read Goosebumps knows that the quality of some of the jokes in those books are... "wacky"
Oh god, it's true. At first reading his wikipedia I was like, "oh, I see, he started writing these joke books when he was 9 years old, that explains why they're so bad" nope, this one and ones like it he wrote as an adult. how humiliating. But then of course, it's not like Goosebumps etc was a step up...
I read his autobiography when I was like 11. He said that he started out writing comedy books before he wrote horror stories. Chances are it's him. I can ask him on Twitter to confirm
Oda Swifteye Stine did some fantasy choose your own adventure type books too, under various names. I still have one in my collection from when I was a kid called Seige of the Dragonriders, written under the pseudonym "Eric Affabee", which is an AWESOME Monty Python reference that I totally didn't get until decades later.
I love how if you interpret these jokes as deep philosophical thoughts they kind of work. i.e. the moon is closer than New York because the moon is visible while New York is not, so conceptually the idea of the moon is something that is ever present and familiar, while New York is something more distant and abstract. Also even if you lived in New York you would never see "New York" because you are part of a small section of what makes New York "New York". It's all a matter of perspective and seeing the bigger picture, that if we are in New York we cannot truly see New York for what it is but for something like the moon that we are an outsider to we can see it in full without bias.
This is basically just another episode of 'Rich Reacts to...', except each episode progressively gets more torturous for Rich and therefore the entertainment value goes up exponentially. You can tell because I laughed so hard at this one I was in tears.
I had a book as a kid called something like "999 animal jokes". It was about 2 inches thick and was about the height and width of a credit card. This video brought back so many horrific memories.
Imagine being Rich for a second. You walk into work one day and see that your best friend has lights and cameras set up and tells you to sit down. You confusingly sit down and he starts reading bad jokes from a children’s book he probably found at goodwill.
I used to think that my life was a tragedy. But now I realize, it’s a 101 wacky kids jokes.
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I heard Rich was attacked by a group of mimes once. They did unspeakable things to him.
AFairs1990 kids jokes ya freak!
102 wacky kid jokes
Dick the birthday boy
how did you even hear about it ? they're mimes !
Did you guys hear about the owl who married a goat?
They had a hootenanny.
Every American should have a Rich Evans in their home.
I'd buy *that* for a dollar!
I'll take it! I'll take *twelve!*
My uncle is basically Rich Evans. Prattfalls everywhere, because he feels like it
What if already own a punching bag?
Hey, what about rest of the world!
The joke about the black eye is the best of the worst.
gomogi1 if there was a sausage joke in that book, that would have been the best of the wurst
If there was a joke about prostitutes in there, it woul have been the best of the whores
Or the breast of the worst...
gomogi1 I see you did a thing
We destroy everything else
I love the super hostile energy that Mike brought to this.
Rich Evans must have done something really bad for the judge to force him to serve community service with these guys.
I agree
He didn't know the Dewey Decimal System.
He ate a little girl's dog right in front of her while wearing his tuxedo t-shirt.
That judge was Dan Aykroyd with penis nose from "Nothing but Trouble"
It's good to see Mike spending time with his son.
I really like Richs life jacket, he's clearly being cool about safety, wearing that at all times. That's using his crocodile brain.
+LorrdMatt Rich is clearly the brains of the outfit. Always prepared.
He must be in the Coast Guard
Dork thinks he’s gonna drown!
You can make fun of rich for literally anything, but yeah that jacket does not do him any favors. I bet his mom picked it out for him
This reminds me of everyone in the 50s calling Marty McFly's vest a life preserver 😂
I never knew I saw Mike as an authority figure until he said "excuse me" so commandingly.
This video is a core memory
"Thank you. That will be all." LOL
"Excuse me!"
Reminds me of Tim from On Cinema.
kurks001 “GET HIM OUTTA MY GODDAMN EYELINE!”
@@kurks001 lol 3 years late but same thought hahaha, immediately thought of tim
Mike: Can you not interrupt me 😠
Also Mike: Next time you can interrupt me Ok ☺️
Knowing that Jovial Bob Stine is the same person as Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine makes this so much better.
This is almost as reality-shattering as the Power Rangers/Super Sentai connection.
@@JohnnyQuickdeath - It makes sense, the R. in RL Stine is for ROBERT (Bob)
Rich should ask him if Monster Blood can cure diabetes.
@@DanArnets1492 Yeah and the L. in R. L. Stine stands for Ldid He Actually Fucking Make This Shit
@@bombabombom3603 He did indeed - before becoming the notorious R. L. Stine, he wrote several children's humor books as Jovial Bob Stine. Every site I saw lists him as the author of 101 Wacky Kid Jokes and I can't find any reports to the contrary.
I love Rich's life preserver, it's like he's expecting the studio to capsize.
"Dork thinks he's gonna drown!"
i bet jay would have laughed....
ha HA -- nooo that's good ol' fashioned slap stick comedy.
It would sound like *Phhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!............ HA HA Ha ha ha.*
It would sound like *Pffffffhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!............ HA HA Ha ha ha.*
Damn I've accidently posted double comment instead of edit one. xD
It would sound like Phhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!.......... HA HA Ha ha ha.
I know this writer. I had his book with the monster jokes.
"Mom, I hate my friend's guts."
"Then leave them at the side of the plate and eat the rest of your dinner."
I used to check out those monster joke books from the library. They were my favorite. Nostalgia City.
It’s a pseudonym, the author is none other than R.L Stine!
“I hate my friend’s guts.”
Then why the shit are you friends with him?
Ghost Rider fuck you you piece of shit
He is R.L.Stine, just fyi. thats the other name he used when he was doing non horror stuff ;p
Rich’s annoyance and Mike’s deadpan delivery makes this book way funnier than it actually is.
I wish I could have a Rich Evans of my own to tell shitty jokes to.
And a VHS boyfriend Jay and a deadpan Mike audiobook!
I'm laughing only because of Rich Evans's wide range of facial expressions.
They're so dense. Each expression has so much going on!
iBoobbbzTV "It's like poetry, it rhymes."
It took him twelve years to develop those expressions! TWELVE YEARS!
This video is proof Mike can make me laugh at anything
How has this glorious video only just been recommended to me after 6 years.
"Would you let me finsih the FUCKING joke?"
gotta love Mike. ;D
next time, you interrupt me, okay?
I like to imagine when Mike says he went through all this trouble to read the wacky jokes, "and you just sit there like an asshole", that he is really talking to one of the children from the other video.
A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was a nurse said 'No change yet'.
Kleavers The boy became a nurse? What?
The Grandmother: Why have you employed my grandson?
What happened to his mom? Did she like abandon him or something?
I really like that black eye joke. It's pretty witty.
Eye didn't like it
the punchline was pretty good
The seven dwarfs got into bed and they all felt happy. Happy got out and they all felt grumpy.
Fk you I was eating
this video has been extremely formative for my sense of humor
I legitimately had to pause the video at least four times from laughter.
The editing and slow zooms and on Rich Evan's face are the pinnacle of art.
That's a very tall library. It must have many stories.
It's so packed, it's like every book has 101 jokes in it!
This took 12 years to make
it's a masterpiece
Sam King jovial-bob stine is the key to all of this
It's like the Boyhood of 101 Wacky Kids Jokes
Being stuck in a room with Mike is a blessing and a curse at the same time.
I can’t believe Joker stole all of these jokes
Joker is a funny guy
I too enjoy the joke about earning the black eye.
Fun fact: this joke book was written by R. L. Stine of “Goosebumps “ fame. The jokes here are scarier than anything in those books.
So glad Jovial Bob Stine switched to writing Goosebumps instead
"Thank you, that'll be all."
Karissa M. Next time, maybe you'll interrupt me, okay?
How hot was Princess Leia's bath water...It was luke-warm.
opmdevil she needed a Han getting out of the tub
@@corwinsdr7206 : After her bath she dried off using a Millenium Falcon.
Fuck you I'm still working on it.
@@meangreen8873 keep working
it was lukes piss
Is that an incest joke
I had this book when I was a kid... and now I watch Red Letter Media videos. My sense of humor hasn't changed much.
Where did the little girl go when the bomb went off?
Everywhere .
Your picture made it 100 times better XD
@@steverobertson3980 well actually children 10 and under get a free pass to Heaven if they die before their 11th birthday.
Now that's the kind of joke I liked as a kid.
"fun sized terrorists"
The first time a little girl got inside of me, reverse has happened often enough though
Welp, I was convinced to subscribe.
It's dandy here.
Edit: It made more sense when OP had a Space Dandy avatar.
If you haven't seen his starwars reviews you'll be laughing forever haha.
Continuum7 Just watched the phantom menance one. That ending was fucking amazing.
Pipboy3004
not to mention tree stand safety
cryionic
And think of Shoji Tabuchi. Won't somebody please think of ShojiTabuchi?
I love how Mike is always on the urge of losing it
You left us hanging on what the brother was going to give the parents for Christmas. I have a sense of incompleteness now. Rich's retort, while humorous, has nonetheless left me wanting.
The ocd is strong in this one
he didn't say it because rich got it right
Google it. The punchline is about what you would expect.
@@choosybeggar3309
So it's blowjob?
Sister: What are you giving our parents for Christmas
Brother: A list of all the things I want
Ba-dum tssss
The joke book is the key to all this. If they can get the jokes working cuz they’re funnier jokes than they’ve had in their videos before.
When Mike said he was going to make a video of him reading a joke book, everyone laughed. Well, no one's laughing now.
Mikes fucking wonderful voice when he says "could you not interrupt me!" xD i can never get enough of that
It's good to see that after marriage Mike chose to take Rich's last name.
How would Rich's facial expressions even be described?
Defeatable
Lol
keep em coming :)
+Eagle-Eye 12 hopeless
Betrayed.
Dense. Every image has has so much going on.
Please make more of these kids joke videos, you guys r hysterical. That will be all.
This book is written by Jovial Bob Stine, also known as R.L. Stine
Anybody who has ever read Goosebumps knows that the quality of some of the jokes in those books are... "wacky"
I have just been informed that “jovial Bob Stine” was the name that R.L Stine went under when he wrote joke books, years before he wrote “horror.”
Clearly he's better at horror than comedy
*Stine
Oh god, it's true.
At first reading his wikipedia I was like, "oh, I see, he started writing these joke books when he was 9 years old, that explains why they're so bad"
nope, this one and ones like it he wrote as an adult.
how humiliating. But then of course, it's not like Goosebumps etc was a step up...
It is entirely possible that "Jovial Bob Stein" is actually Goosebumps author R. L. Stein, who started out writing comedy books.
I read his autobiography when I was like 11. He said that he started out writing comedy books before he wrote horror stories. Chances are it's him. I can ask him on Twitter to confirm
I spelled his last name wrong! How could I have done that after seeing his name on so many books during childhood??
Oda Swifteye
Stine did some fantasy choose your own adventure type books too, under various names. I still have one in my collection from when I was a kid called Seige of the Dragonriders, written under the pseudonym "Eric Affabee", which is an AWESOME Monty Python reference that I totally didn't get until decades later.
Man, tough crowd...
The comedic timing in this was perfect.
The fact they're reading one of R.L Stines comedy books before he started writing horror makes this even better
I love how if you interpret these jokes as deep philosophical thoughts they kind of work. i.e. the moon is closer than New York because the moon is visible while New York is not, so conceptually the idea of the moon is something that is ever present and familiar, while New York is something more distant and abstract. Also even if you lived in New York you would never see "New York" because you are part of a small section of what makes New York "New York". It's all a matter of perspective and seeing the bigger picture, that if we are in New York we cannot truly see New York for what it is but for something like the moon that we are an outsider to we can see it in full without bias.
***** ??
That burning sensation in your fingertips? Thats the joint you have yet to pass. Just kinda parked on it there bro.
I can see the light leaving Rich's eyes with each passing second.
After nine years, I’ve come to realize “Jovial Bob Stine” is R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps books. So that’s a thing I know now.
3:53 A more distrustful glare has never been!
I swear, I can see Rich's forehead getting bigger with each joke
this is so good. i wish they did more little stuff like this
This is basically just another episode of 'Rich Reacts to...', except each episode progressively gets more torturous for Rich and therefore the entertainment value goes up exponentially.
You can tell because I laughed so hard at this one I was in tears.
i honestly had no idea mike could read
It's always nice to take a look back & watch a classic video of a young Mike reading 101 Wacky Kids Jokes to a modern day Rich Evans
I had a book as a kid called something like "999 animal jokes". It was about 2 inches thick and was about the height and width of a credit card. This video brought back so many horrific memories.
Those jokes sure were Rich.
All Rich was thinking about was that juicy Shaq meat.
+valer48 Are you sure he wasn't thinking about being a violent murderer and bashing someone's face in with a rifle?
He was missing the hotdogs of the future.
valer48 and that Wendy's ad
For whatever dang reason this is still one of my all-time favorite videos on this channel
Legend has it he's still reading the jokes to this day.
Look at those empty movie racks behind them. Time goes by.
They were so young and full of life.
@2:02 when his expression changes. LOL.
Non-medy
2:03 The Non-medy is instantaneous
first time i havent heard rich laugh
"I usually write with a pencil" is actually a pretty good joke
this is the only context in the universe where these jokes are histerical
Oh this is great, I watched this years and years ago when it came out, but it's been so long I forgot everything in the video.
mike giggling during the first joke is precious.
Watching this video made me feel the same way that I do when I slow down to look at the carnage left over from a car wreck
The save on The Elephant "Joke" is pretty much close to comedic timing perfection. Chefs kiss!
Seriously tho, if Mike and Rich don't go down as one of the all-time classic comedy duos I'll raise hell as a 65 year old man.
Why do birds fly south for the winter?..............because its faster than walking.
Lmao so hard the facial expressions the voice and the silence plus the wacky music in the background makes this funny
Why did the pair of shoes go to Heaven?
They had good soles!
This had more consistent characterizations than Rise of Skywalker.
i didnt ask you to try and predict them
I think it's funny that the sequel to this video is flagged as an actual kids video
Imagine being Rich for a second. You walk into work one day and see that your best friend has lights and cameras set up and tells you to sit down. You confusingly sit down and he starts reading bad jokes from a children’s book he probably found at goodwill.
The funniest thing about this is Rich’s back to the future vest
Been binging Red Letter since I found it. I actually have this crazy book!
Time for my weekly viewing of the wacky kids joke trilogy
WHY AREN'T YOU LAUGHING.
@@MIAaaaaaahcrap go ahead. Laugh.
"Did you know that an elephant never forgets?" "Big deal, what has he got to remember?" LMAO
I thought this said 8 hours ago and I was astounded at how young and full of hope they looked
its from those vcr headdrums
This might have been one of the best videos I've ever seen on RUclips, and I have no idea why.
That deadpan delivery.... love it !
This is the video that got me into rlm.
Why did the pizza boy need more money?
cause he kneaded more dough
cause he kneaded more dough
@@dannydumlet why
@@OceanicTrancer cause he kneaded more dough
his face smiles briefly and then it comes to the punchline and the self defeat and cynicism seems to seep right back
2 and a half years later and this is still a masterpiece.
Why do you have two copies of Digimon the Movie?
Why not?
One for work and one for pleasure.
So they can watch it in 2D. Duh.
One's dubbed the other's subbed.
“Thank you, that’ll be all” lmaooo
Rich Evans' face is what made this video hilarious.