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Joke phrase
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"No soap radio" is a form of practical joke and an example of surreal comedy. The joke is a prank whereby the punch line has no relation to the body of the joke, but participants in the prank pretend otherwise. The effect is to either trick someone into laughing along as if they "get it" or to ridicule them for not understanding. The joke became popular in New York in the 1950s. The punch line is known for its use as a basic sociological and psychological experiment, specifically relating to mob mentality and the pressure to conform. The basic setup is similar to the Asch conformity experiments, in which people showed a proclivity to agree with a group despite their own judgments.

The phrase no soap possibly originated around 1860 when it was first recorded, meaning "I haven't any money" or "I will not lend you money". Its contemporary connotation is "not a chance" or "nothing doing". However, the phrase itself was being employed in an absurd and humorous context as early as the 1750s, when it appeared in a well known piece of literary nonsense by English dramatist and actor Samuel Foote in order to test the memory of a rival: "So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! No soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber." Eric Partridge and William Safire dated the phrase to the 1930s or 1940s.

As a practical joke the trick is an example of anti humor or surreal comedy. The scenario resulting from false understanding is a demonstration of groupthink and peer pressurethe desire to conform to one's peersdespite the fact that the entire joke has no hidden meaning, nothing to "get" and no punchline.