Steven Hawking and the Stairs

This joke plays on the fact that Stephen Hawking used a wheelchair because of his ALS. It creates a humorous image of him not being able to climb stairs, which is a very literal interpretation of accessing heaven.

• Steven Hawking
• Heaven
• Die
• Stairs
• Death
• Afterlife

• Man, I’m so sorry that Stephen Hawking is dead; he was such a good person. Too bad it’s a staircase to Heaven and not a ramp.
• When Stephen Hawking died, he saw the stairway to Heaven. He thought to himself, "Oh God, this is awkward!"
• How did Stephen Hawking make it up the stairway to heaven? Well, he didn’t; they invented an elevator.
• What is black and at the top of a staircase? Stephen Hawking after a house fire.