If anything of Newfoundland culture is known to outsiders, it is likely to be the Newfie joke. Exuberant and corny, it usually pokes fun at the stupidity and literalness of either fellow Newfoundlanders or such favorite targets as Americans, Torontonians, and Nova-Scotians

How do you get ten Newfies into a Volkswagen?
Tell them you ‘re going to Toronto

The only reason Newie jokes are so simple is because we want mainlanders to understand them.

It is often the humor of the poor and struggling, a laughter born of a hazardous life in a rocky, misty land. To capture their irrepressible spirit, I have depicted an imaginative setting combining various elements of Newfoundland countryside and way of life – steep cliffs, the changeable sea, small farms, and hard-working people – and encircled it fifteen Newfie jokes. It is a hard life, sometimes a grim life, but jokes provide a form of relief.