A family friend once boldly announced during a conversation that "Spinoza was an idiot."  As of this blog posting, no one indexed by Google has ever written that exact phrase.

People have said that Spinoza was:

"beside himself with grief and rage"
"dependent on his own work for a livelihood"
"little understood in his time"
"accused of abominable heresies and monstrous deeds"
"uncanny, both personally and philosophically"
"an easy man to revile but not necessarily an easy man to dislike"
"as close as philosophy could come to sainthood — a life of austerity, rationality, independence, principle, rarefied thought"
"loveable"
"offered 1000 florins to keep quiet about his views, but refused"
"unique to the point of solitariness"
"not at all put out by this"

While looking up Spinoza humor online, I discovered that there are no jokes indexed on Google that begin, "Spinoza walks into a bar."  The phrase "Did you hear the one about Spinoza" also returns zero results.

I guess Spinoza had the last laugh.