No kitten around

August 13, 2024 9:50 PM

Please give me all of your catless comedy. Our home is bereft of cats for the first time in almost two decades and we need something to keep us from feline blue.

Looking for all the things that make you laugh as long as there are zero cats involved.

This spring/just a week ago we had to say goodbye to the last two of the three littermates we adopted 18 years ago and now we are a catless home.

I usually cope in part with comedy and one of my typical favorite things to do when I need to lose my mind laughing is to read this wonderful post about how I need more laughs for my armor but there are probably cats in there.

I'm not looking for:
*Ghost cats/catless jokes like Garfield minus Garfield or anything that is in that admittedly usually funny vein. Literally don't suggest cats to me please. I come to you all because the Internet is FULL of cats and cats are comedy masters so this is hard to find without finding cats.

If you can't tell from the title I am very easily amused so again the only curation situation is avoiding any mention of cats please.

posted by RobinofFrocksley to Human Relations (11 answers total)

Dick. Note there is mention of dog walking
posted by brookeb at 9:57 PM on August 13

Bad Lip Reading, specifically this House of Representatives one. Literally watch this to cheer myself up, it's just silly.
posted by Eyelash at 5:03 AM on August 14

I'm not sure how universal the humor is, but I love the comic ADHDinos, and every cartoon I've seen has been cat free, and I've read the vast majority of them (does feature dinos):

https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHDinos/

(I have ADHD, but I'm not sure how it would land if you don't have ADHD - I still think it's relatable.)
posted by litera scripta manet at 5:14 AM on August 14

Do you like nature? Bird and Moon, by Rosemary Mosco!

You should skip (presented in reverse chronological order):

"Rodenticide"
"Found a Baby Bird"
"Ghosts of the NE Woods"
"Christmas Trees"
"Animal Cheat Sheet"

but there are no mentions of cats in any of the others. Some of my favourites:

Nuthatch
Mate Choice
Instinct is Weird
Amazing Fall Migrations
Bee Club
Misleading Names
When I Grow Up
Threat Displays
posted by ManyLeggedCreature at 5:16 AM on August 14

Keegan Tindall has been making me crack up for a few months now. He has this sort of dry, quirky, utterly bizarre delivery combined with surrealism and stark truthfulness. There’s a lot of weird stuff with gnomes, also, and many cameos from other people who just bounce off of him in unexpected ways. I can’t vouch for 100% cat free because I usually just watch his shorts when they pop up on my feed but I have a very feline focused yt algo and I assume if there were any cat contents it would have shown me that first and foremost among Tindall’s stuff.
posted by Mizu at 5:45 AM on August 14

Taskmaster Season 1
posted by sebastienbailard at 6:15 AM on August 14

Came to recommend taskmaster if Brittish comdey is something you enjoy. See it's already been recommended but doesn't hurt to say it again. There is 17 seasons plus international versions all free on YouTube.
posted by AlexiaSky at 6:34 AM on August 14

Old, but some Canadian humour for you: Looking for a Job in Quebec.
posted by Lawn Beaver at 7:08 AM on August 14

Ok, so two traders on the New York Stock Exchange are walking together to the subway after the market closed. As was their habit they struck up a casual conversation. One trader said to the other trader, "I got a dog for my wife." "Nice trade." said the other trader.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 7:10 AM on August 14

Try this YouTube video with a VERY old stand-up comic. I turned on transcript and copied to a text file and did a find on all the terms I could think of related to your banned topic and did not get any hits.
posted by forthright at 12:23 PM on August 14

Emily Haswell on TikTok
posted by bookworm4125 at 2:30 PM on August 14