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Did you hear the one about the website that they turned into a book?

Actually, that’s not a joke. The popular website OldJewsTellingJokes.com is the inspiration for a new book titled, not surprisingly, “Old Jews Telling Jokes.” It was published this month.

Co-edited by filmmaker Sam Hoffman and video producer Eric Spiegelman, the book includes transcriptions from the website, which features videos of mostly over-60 Jews telling humorous tales, anecdotes and, yes, jokes. The site, which is beginning its fourth “season” this month, has had more than 8.6 million video plays in its first three years, organizers say.

The book’s chapters range from “Husbands and Wives” to “Illness and Doctors” to “Oral Sex.” Collectively, the editors say, these jokes trace the trajectory of the Jewish experience in America.

“The jokes themselves become time capsules, revealing the fears and anxieties and celebrating the joys of all aspects of life,” says Hoffman, who has produced and directed movies such as “The Royal Tenenbaums” and “School of Rock.”

Hoffman launch-ed the website from an abandoned storefront in Highland Park, N.J. by filming 20 of his father’s friends and relatives — all Jewish, all 60 years and up — telling their “best” jokes.

Lou Charloff is featured in “Old Jews Telling Jokes.”

The book, Hoffman says “endeavors to take the process a step further. Our goal is a portrait, both in photos and jokes, of an evolving culture.”

In a mini-review on TabletMag.com, Josh Lambert wrote that “Transforming a perfect Web project into printed matter may be a pointless exercise … but, in all fairness, there are probably still a few Jews reading jokes strictly offline.”

“Old Jews Telling Jokes” (240 pages, Villard Books, $15)