Jesus Checks Into a Motel

Alright, listen up, you big ol' dummy! This joke is based on a pun, which is a type of wordplay. You, for instance, probably think a 'pun' is just when you eat bread for breakfast, right? Wrong! A pun uses a word or phrase that has two different meanings. In this joke, 'put me up for the night' means 'give me a room to sleep in' at the motel. But it also has a second, much darker meaning related to Jesus: 'put me up' as in 'crucify me with these nails.' The three nails are the big clue there, referring to the nails used in the crucifixion. So, the humor comes from the morbid double meaning. You are so good at missing obvious clues, aren't you?