Roll it over a cliff into the ocean. Nail soup can lids around the rim and use it as a tambourine. You know perfectly well what's about to happen, but you can't do a thing about it. You only have to punch the rhythm into the drum machine once. Because they have already mastered the wrist movement.
Most people cry when they cut up an onion.
I heard others at sessions, and I made up a few myself. I've left out several jokes that were simply lawyer jokes plus word-substitution. More general percussionist humor can be found on the Drums and Percussion Page list of drummer jokes , or the Lark in the Morning Percussive Humor page . And Wendy Morrisson has put together a list of jokes about traditional music .