As a follow-up to my last question - what's your favorite dark, cynical, gallows-humour style joke? [more inside]
posted by phyrewerx on Oct 20, 2009 - 76 answers

What are some great joke books, written with attention to the craft of how a joke or story is told? [more inside]
posted by surenoproblem on Oct 20, 2009 - 5 answers

Everybody who knows the origin of this gag, take one step forward... Not so fast, internet. [more inside]
posted by StopMakingSense on Aug 17, 2009 - 16 answers

Jokefilter: Rival towns and school districts often have some really funny one-liners at one another's expense. Know any good ones? Some examples after the jump. [more inside]
posted by BirdD0g on Jul 15, 2009 - 47 answers

An odd question about puns as a form of torturous humor. [more inside]
posted by Navelgazer on May 5, 2009 - 29 answers

What's the original joke that has the punchline "what, and give up show business?" Google doesn't help, since it's such a common reference, most links are using the line assuming you know the joke.
posted by bonecrusher on Mar 27, 2009 - 10 answers

I need a tuxedo t-shirt. Oh, and I need it by Friday. [more inside]
posted by chrisfromthelc on Feb 17, 2009 - 8 answers

Am I oversensitive? [more inside]
posted by peggynature on Jan 16, 2009 - 52 answers

"One time at camp..." What joke am I missing? [more inside]
posted by PatoPata on Jan 9, 2009 - 17 answers

I recently heard a joke on the show 30 Rock: "I love Foxy Boxing. It combines my two favorite things: boxing and referees!". I think I've heard this joke before. I feel like it was on Futurama. Is this my imagination?
posted by The Wig on Jan 5, 2009 - 17 answers

Help me be a fantastic Cabaret MC . . . I need jokes, tricks, filler lines, and so on . . . oh, and this Cabaret is also a wedding! [more inside]
posted by donovan on Oct 7, 2008 - 3 answers

How can I cultivate a quicker wit? [more inside]
posted by reenum on Jun 3, 2008 - 34 answers

Do you have any weird food facts/jokes for a Canadian farmers market? [more inside]
posted by KathyK on Jun 3, 2008 - 10 answers

If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong, though. It's Hambone. I love the writings of Jack Handey. His Deep Thoughts (beware sound!) and his articles in the New Yorker. I would love to hear recommendations of similarly funny writings. [more inside]
posted by therubettes on May 26, 2008 - 35 answers

Why do people I know, both acquaintances and quasi-friends, bring up my oddities whenever we go out together? It annoys me, and I wonder if I'm overreacting. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on May 24, 2008 - 43 answers

Help me find the origin of the joke/song/story "Missing My Son" as told by Tom Waits. [more inside]
posted by Xurando on May 18, 2008 - 4 answers

Is there a name for this style of joking? Set-up: Person A asks a question. Punchline: Person B -- by pretending to misunderstand the question -- gives an unexpected response. The Marx Bros used this style a lot, and I see it over and over on "Flight of the Conchords. " ALSO: Can anyone offer further examples of this? Thank you so much! :-)
posted by coizero on Apr 19, 2008 - 15 answers

I'm looking for jokes that sound like they are going to be very involved at the start but end up being very short. [more inside]
posted by Carbolic on Apr 17, 2008 - 61 answers

I have a show tomorrow night, I know nothing about sports, and I need to mod a hoodie. Help with funny/edgy names and numbers. [more inside]
posted by sourwookie on Mar 7, 2008 - 24 answers

Is there something I can do to gradually increase my comfort with being "silly/fun" while making sure that I don't put people off? [more inside]
posted by gregb1007 on Dec 3, 2007 - 29 answers

Got any good short, silly one-liner jokes? [more inside]
posted by angryjellybean on Nov 23, 2007 - 97 answers

I'm looking for comics, cartoons, and jokes that focus on Quebec-French vs France-French. Could you help me find some?
posted by mustcatchmooseandsquirrel on Nov 20, 2007 - 6 answers

What is the name of the practical joke you play on people, where you pretend to take them xyz hunting, and you get them to go wait somewhere while you "flush" the xyz out. But you actually just like...go home.
posted by aleahey on Oct 20, 2007 - 30 answers

I love esoteric jokes, the kind of humor which presupposes a lot of specialized knowledge. The more opaque the joke is, the better. However, by their very nature they're kinda hard to search for on Google, or at least I rarely hit upon the magic searchterms. So, do you know good sites with specialist jokes? If not, do you know any particularly obscure jokes? [more inside]
posted by Kattullus on Sep 23, 2007 - 97 answers

I`m looking for jokes to tell my (not so advanced) EFL students. They`ve got to be clean, and I`ve found any thing dark doesn`t go over too well. [more inside]
posted by Sar on Sep 20, 2007 - 25 answers

Good jokes for a beginning reader? [more inside]
posted by maryh on Sep 17, 2007 - 22 answers

What is this joke? ('concept of an apple'?) [more inside]
posted by theiconoclast31 on Aug 7, 2007 - 6 answers

Tell me/help me find some jokes about/involving not being able to speak. One of my coworkers has a throat... thing, that is keeping her from speaking today(bare whisper if she must), and possibly will last until tomorrow. I'd love to brighten her day with some jokes, and you can help. [more inside]
posted by ElfWord on Jul 19, 2007 - 16 answers

What are some good, somewhat dirty jokes suitable for telling to my Grandma? [more inside]
posted by sciurus on Jun 26, 2007 - 53 answers

Strangers have mocked me twice in the last week in the same way. I'm wondering how pervasive this phenomenon is. [more inside]
posted by Kwine on Jun 20, 2007 - 41 answers

Where do jokes come from? Every day I get a joke via email from a friend. Every once in a while, I hear a great joke at a party or the bar. Where do these things originate? Do most of them start out as a bit from a professional comedian? Are there people who are professional joke writers? Do jokes evolve from anecdotes that had been embellished over the years?
posted by jasondigitized on May 24, 2007 - 21 answers

Freud once said there's no such thing as a joke? [more inside]
posted by hokie409 on Apr 30, 2007 - 22 answers

My wife is working very difficult and stressful night shifts for the next few weeks. To help her keep from becoming emotionally overwhelmed, I like to send her jokes to her text pager. It's quickly become hard to find quality jokes that are short enough, though. Little help? [more inside]
posted by Plutor on Feb 8, 2007 - 57 answers

I need a good collection of bookmarks to help me enter competitions! What are some good repositories for jokes, wordplay, and the like? [more inside]
posted by mjao on Dec 10, 2006 - 4 answers

I've been at my job for less than a month, and today as I was rounding a blind corner into my cubicle I collided with my co-worker who works right next to me. He slammed his shoulder into the cubicle, and even though he brushed it off as nothing, I am 99.9% sure that he will wake up with a bruise tomorrow morning. He's very friendly, but we're both so engrossed in our work that we haven't had a chance to really get to know one another. I've already apologized twice, but what can I do or say to make things less awkward?
posted by invisible ink on Nov 1, 2006 - 39 answers

So George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Kim Jong-Il walk into a bar... [more inside]
posted by wfrgms on Oct 18, 2006 - 24 answers

What is the origin of the "Where Is Your God Now?" Burger King meme/joke?
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood on Oct 4, 2006 - 21 answers

I'm looking for short jokes, riddles, tongue twisters, or funny sayings about each month of the year. Think "April showers bring May flowers, so what do Mayflowers bring?" Anyone have more? [more inside]
posted by Soliloquy on Sep 26, 2006 - 17 answers

Know any good Dalai Lama jokes? [more inside]
posted by timeistight on Sep 18, 2006 - 21 answers

I'm trying to remember a joke I heard or read a while back. It's kind of a long joke where a man gets a phone call about some bad news, like his dog is dead or his wife is hurt. The man tells the guy to do certain things in response, and with each offered response, more bad news comes. I believe the joke is golf related. Does anyone know what the hell I'm talking about?
posted by JFunk2800 on Aug 21, 2006 - 10 answers

I'm looking for funny stories about money, both funny "ha-ha" and funny "strange". These can be news stories, fictional stories, video clips, or whatever. It's best if these are available online in some fashion — actual URLs are a bonus. Anything funny/odd about shopping, saving, bank robberies, currency, rich people, poor people — I want it. Anything funny about money at all. Even funny money jokes! [more inside]
posted by jdroth on Jul 28, 2006 - 36 answers

I'm looking to keep in tune with the funny side of life and even improve my sense of humour. Basically I find if I regularly read jokes I seem to enjoy life more and even start making ones up myself. I like using rss to keep up with my favourite sites and I really love the idea of a website where people submit new jokes everyday and they are put into a feed which I can easily access. Does anything like this exist?
posted by razzman on Jun 1, 2006 - 5 answers

Any jokes with the theme of Pyramids, Ancient Egypt or Joseph (Dreamcoat)? [more inside]
posted by pettins on May 15, 2006 - 4 answers

Does anyone actually know a joke that starts: "So a Rabbi, a Priest, and a Minister Walk Into a Bar..."? Or is it just a meta-joke? [more inside]
posted by TonyRobots on May 7, 2006 - 31 answers

So April Fool's Day is this Saturday, so I'm wondering what is the best joke you've pulled, and more specifically... [more inside]
posted by beammeup4 on Mar 27, 2006 - 30 answers

What's the funniest joke that doesn't involve making fun of anyone? [more inside]
posted by hoverboards don't work on water on Mar 20, 2006 - 126 answers

There was a thing going around the net last year, a list of when and how lawyers bill in the billable hours practice. $100 for thinking about your case while on the golf course, etc. Does anyone remember this or know how I'd find it again?
posted by onegreeneye on Feb 22, 2006 - 1 answer

Attention MeFi smart asses! Here's your chance to make justifiable wisecracks on AskMe. I need an Easter-themed witticism. [more inside]
posted by orange swan on Feb 8, 2006 - 60 answers

Jokes that involve the listener and make fun of them? [more inside]
posted by Sharcho on Jan 13, 2006 - 55 answers

Have the analogy/stereotype jokes related to programming and OSs ever been updated? Examples follow... [more inside]
posted by hodyoaten on Jan 7, 2006 - 6 answers