I've heard a lot about ancient jokes from the Egyptians and Greeks, but I've never heard anything about humor from the Americas. I'm particularly interested in the MesoAmerican societies, but I'll take anything really.
What did the Native people of this new, vast land say and do for the LOLs?
Edit: C'mon guys, I'll take an "I think all the Aztec knock-knock jokes were erased by the Italians" or something...
If you don't receive a lot of responses here you can also try the question in /r/Anthropology or /r/AskAnthropology.
Most everything we know about them comes from conquistadors and proselytizers, who had little interest in anything that might humanize the natives. The greatest exception would be the Popul Vuh, which evinces what might be called Old-Testament-style punning, the way Tim Lohrentz puts it:
The story of the Hunahpu's head growing into a squash is full of irony and humor, based on word play, which is so common to the Maya. In the Popol Vuh, recorded in Quiche Maya, the name of 1 Death is 1 Kame, which means death or dead person. In the Yucateca calendar, this day sign is Cimi, which also means death. However, Yucateca derived from Ch'orti' (Cholti) Maya, and in Ch'orti' cimin or tzimin means 'tapir'. This makes sense as tapir is the symbol for death and sacrifice in Maya cosmology and tapir is a fitting animal to symbolize the cave-dwelling Xibalbans...
This guy's kinda proselytizing himself, and some of his humor might be lost on me for that; but I like to think I think I see what he's trying to say, from the other dry translations I've seen...