Need Help with a Vaguely Remembered Joke (Everyone Knows Joe)

This is going to sound insane, but here goes.

I just remembered a sort of anti-joke that I was told in elementary school, which I was briefly obsessed with. I straight-up just had the recollection of it jolt into my brain, but I can remember so few details, and I want to see if this is something that people know about. There's a good chance the kid who told me just made it up, but if it exists outside of my mind I wanna know what it is!

Unfortunately, I need to be painfully vague as I can only remember a little. The joke had a distinct format to it; there was a character (who may have been the speakers "cousin", and may have been named Joe) who everyone knows. This isn't the other "Everyone Knows Joe" joke, though. The story has a distinct format whereby the teller starts in on a story about this person's life, as they wake up, go about doing daily tasks or engaging in strange behavior. It changes in the telling, but a reoccuring motif is that, whenever a new character is introduced, the refrain is "... and they said 'Hi Joe!', because everyone knows Joe."

You basically keep the story going as long as possible (I vaguely remember flying across the ocean, a whale, and possibly celebrities) until, eventually, anti-climatically, Joe is hit by a car and you end the story with "And that's why you look both ways before crossing the street."

Is there an origin to this thing? Does anyone have a version of it? Am I just insane? Please help!

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