See https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1e5qdi/the_worlds_oldest_jokes/
Thus far the oldest joke that we have been able to identify by this definition is an old Sumerian saying from ~1900 BCE that is translated as follows: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."
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