Hey, didja hear about the Yankees changing a lightbulb? One to hold the lightbulb and 50 to spin the house around.
Didja ever see a Yankee flyswatter? They put a stick on the plastic that holds a six-pack together.
(Vintage jokes to crack up Catspaw, a real crackerjack of a guy! See his take on Ode to Billie Joe)

Mr Happy, In the USA and Canada, firecrackers are the tubular thingies and fireworks are the whole shebang including rockets, etc. And of course we say that there were real fireworks at a meeting that develops into a bruhaha. Crackers for funny farm candidates is used on both sides of the Atlantic.
One of my son-in-laws, from England, introduced the cracker tradition to us at the first Christmas dinner he had with us. He couldn't pull his apart (we had operated on it). Now that cracked us up!