There’s nothing more timelessly funny than tricking someone into announcing a fake name that’s secretly sexual in a public setting, or so says comedy philosopher Craven Moorehead.

Regardless of age, race, gender and nationality, there are certain principles of humor that have remained universal throughout the history of comedy. Someone slipping on a banana peel. A fat guy farts in a crowded theater during a dramatic moment. Dick jokes. These simple, repeatable gags form the foundation of our ability to laugh at the world, each other and ourselves, and we will never — I mean Never — get tired of playing the hits.

The Simpsons understood these ancient jokes better than any comedy property of the last 50 years, especially when it came to Bart’s continuous torment of poor Moe Szyslak with prank phone calls asking to speak to his dear friends Jacques Strap, Mike Rotch and I’m A...