The Englishman and the Irishman met the Scotsman.
Thus giving birth to the phenomenon known as 'the joke'.

If you study Shakespeare, you will realise before this groundbreaking event - they were pretty much buggered. Just feeble attempts at humour. In fact Chaucer wrote The Millers Tale, and he couldn't even speak bloody English. Nobody laughed. I was there at the time. We all said, sod off Geoffrey! That's not funny, and you can't bleeding spell.

Of course now we know know what its about.....