Make me laugh: how to translate a good joke.

Are we able to tell foreing people foreigners a good joke without the meaning being lost in translation? It is trough ones It's a tough one (I think that is what you mean). In my opinion, it is not possible. A joke is a summary of mixture of cultural background and local grammar uses. Besides, we may must keep in mind that a good joke usually describes a funny view relative to current issues happening in different countries, social groups or communities. Therefore, our capabilities capacity/probability to enjoy that joke will rise longer increase if we belong to those groups. However, someone may refuse refute this point of view if we consider that we have all an universal sense of humour, like it is proved as has been proven by successful comedies that everybody enjoys them despite being foreigners. For me, it is a wrong analyze poor analogy, due to because enjoying a sitcom or even so a funny movie doesn't mean it would be the same when we talk about with jokes. Based on this, I propose a game to prove what I say. I will translate a very popular spanish joke and in case I make you laugh, please tell me a good joke in your own language. Here is the joke translated:

Two friends introduce each other himself. One of them says:
- Hi, my name is Bartolo, but Everybody calls me Bartolome.
And the other claims:
- My name is Paco, but I prefer that you call me to have lunch.

In Spanish is:
- Hola, me llamo Bartolo, pero todo el mundo me llama Bartolomé.
- Yo soy Paco (Francisco nickname), pero prefiero que me llames Pa-comé (para comer in slang).

Wow that was a tough topic. I think you are correct in that many jokes are a play on words or current popular culture, and they cannot be translated. I'm not a good jokster, but if I think of one, I'll share it with you :-)