Humor with Sichuan characteristics

lille abe via FlickrChina Digital Times gives a great overview of Sichuan jokes related to their earthquake. The outside world has never associated China much with humor, it mostly was a culturally too distant humor. But these Sichuan jokes are great:

* An old man in Beichuan, dragged out by a Russian rescue team. The first thing he said was “This is one hell of an earthquake, it shook me all the way to a foreign country!”

More at CDT.