Read This: The 22 greatest jokes ever told

The modern world loves superlatives almost as much as it loves lists and yesterday the editors at Esquire banded together to treat their readers to a superlative-spewing, listicle-laced feature that counts down the 22 greatest jokes ever told. Of course, trying to scientifically evaluate something as subjective and ephemeral as a joke is a lost cause, so instead Esquire passed the task off to 22 current comedians whose opinions ranged from the smart, to the silly, to the WTF?