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You're right, there's no pun at all in English. There are ways you could make a pun in this situation -- for example, the passenger in the car is a prostitute; the driver says "Take it off!"...

Thanks very much, Soft sign! I've corrected my glossary for the post.

By the way, after thinking about it: the pun with вешать simply doesn't work in English, but one could make an analogous...

I wouldn't agree that there's "nothing interesting" in this joke! Of course, the points of interest are more lexical than grammatical. In particular, it illustrates there are TWO completely different...

Thanks for the positive feedback and corrections! Here's another one -- I think I originally found it in the MR "Fun Stuff" section, but I've added my own annotations:

This joke has two prefixed...

I got it, and it was also a good reminder for me that кот/кошка take the pronoun "кто" (not "что"), because they are одушевлённые ("animate")!

In case you didn't get the second joke, here's another one playing on the same suspicion that a husband's поездка на охоту/рыбалку ("trip for hunting/fishing") is actually an excuse for some kind of...

I dug up an old Russian textbook and found a few simple jokes that beginners might enjoy; they all illustrate Verbs of Motion, and I've added some glossary-notes explaining some of the words so that...