10 Times The Joker Was Genuinely Hilarious
3. He Made Batman Laugh - The Killing Joke
Since the 1980s, Batman has been depicted as a brooding superhero with a seemingly permanent scowl upon his face. Batman is so infamous for his lack of humour, the Justice League regularly mock him for it. In fact, it's pretty difficult to picture the Dark Knight smiling.
And yet, his greatest enemy, the Joker, managed to make Batman nearly keel over with laughter in the one-shot story, The Killing Joke. At the end of the comic, the Caped Crusader tracks the wicked trickster to his lair after he paralyses Barbara Gordon and kidnaps Commissioner Jim Gordon.
After Bats defeats a barrage of henchmen and corners his nemesis, the Joker tells a joke. Batman finds the punchline so funny, he has to lean on his deadliest foe to stop himself from falling over.
It's crazy that the Flash, Wonder Woman, and Superman have tried countless times to make Batman chuckle and they've never properly succeeded. Ironically, one of the only people to make Batman laugh uncontrollably is the one man he hates the most. As inappropriate as it may seem, sometimes you just can't help finding a joke funny.