Ice Cream Truck Music Humor

I saw this joke on the Esquire website a little while back; it was attributed to Australian actress Rose Byrne.

A woman asked her grandmother how her grandfather had died. “He had a heart attack while we were making love one Sunday morning,” Granny said. Horrified, the granddaughter told her that two people that old having sex would surely be asking for trouble. “Oh, no,” said Granny. “Many years ago we realized that ringing church bells provided the perfect rhythm: in on the ding and out on the dong.” She paused, wiped away a tear, and continued, “But then the ice-cream truck came along.”

I’ve recently submitted an article about ice cream truck music to a book that will come out sometime next year on Oxford…having been pretty close to the subject for a little while, it’s entirely possible my perception of how funny this joke is is somewhat skewed (but somehow I don’t think so).