(Answer: Bait.) History jokes can make us feel less alone in the present, more knowledgeable about the past and more hopeful that whatever we’re going through now will be funny in the future.

As a lifelong comedy nerd, I was fascinated with why did the Pythons keep making history jokes? What was it about the past that proved so funny? I suppose it’s no surprise they kept doing ...

In honor of the annual holiday, we've collected our favorite Groundhog Day jokes to inspire all the laughs. Or should we say, all the wood-chuckles. Did you catch our funny pun right there?