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One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes (film)

2014 Chinese film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes is a 2014 Chinese animated fantasy comedy film directed by Lu Hengyu and Li Shujie. It was released on December 31.

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The public source identifies “One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes (film)” as 2014 Chinese film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hundred, Thousand and Jokes.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hundred, Thousand and Jokes providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 10, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes (film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.