Help! Please explain this silly kids joke to me... This joke has been bugging me on and off for around 30-years. I read it in some kind of '1000 jokes for kids' type book - probably written around 1985'ish. The joke is pretty stupid - and i'm reasonably sure it would still be pretty stupid if I actually understood it - however for some unexplained reason i just never forgot about it, and it has remained stuck in my head. If somebody could please just explain the joke to me, then i believe i could finally forget about it and never be bothered by this again! Anyway - here is the joke: ---------------------- A guy walks into a barber shop and and asks the barber for a haircut exactly like 'Cliff Richard'. The barber agrees and begins to cut his hair. The haircut gets shorter and shorter. the guy starts to get very worried, and, rather concerned, asks if the barber know what he is doing. The barber assures the guy that this is all going well, and not to worry. Next the barber takes out some clippers and cuts a bald stripe right through the center-line of the guys head. The guy screams at the barber asking what the hell he is doing and says that this is nothing like a 'Cliff Richard' style. The barber replies that ""of course it is - I've seen him in 'The King and I' - fourteen times!"". ---------------------------------------- Does that make sense to anyone? What i do know: * 'The King and I' is a Rogers & Hammerstein musical * the king is typically presented as bald * The king was most famously played by Yul Brunner - who, again, is bald. * Cliff Richard is a UK singer with an unusually long career * Cliff Richard performed his own version of one of the songs from 'The King and I' - called 'We Kiss in a Shadow' - however in this song he doesn't play the bald king - rather he plays the part of 'Lun Tha' - and I've never seen any reference that this character is depicted as bald. That it - that's all i know. does this make sense to anyone?