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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Bizarre obscure image search. I'm looking for a funny picture I saw a year or so ago on the 'net. [more inside]
posted by knave on Sep 30, 2005 - 15 answers

A couple of weeks ago, I asked a question about "The European" newspaper, published from 1990-1999. Actually, the reason why I asked is because, in the name of fostering European understanding, they had asked readers for jokes which didn't target a specific nationality. Seems that such jokes are rare, because what they tended to get were jokes that made fun of absolutely EVERYBODY (along the lines of the famous "Heaven and Hell in Europe", for example). I've been trying to find these. Any suggestions where I might be able to find this old content of "The European" newspaper, or else any other good suggestions for similar jokes? A good one that I've been trying to remember how it all goes involves a sinking ship filled with international passengers, but which doesn't have enough lifeboats... [more inside]
posted by Misciel on Sep 9, 2005 - 2 answers

Jokes and humor websites : Can you recommend some good ones? I mean belly-laugh good. What rises to the surface from a few google trawls I wouldn't inflict on anyone.
posted by mono blanco on Jan 4, 2005 - 20 answers

I used to be funny, and now I'm not. Not rip-roaringly, get-your-own-sitcom funny, but enough to get my girlfriend and friends to regularly smile and chuckle. How do I get funny again?
posted by anonymous on Nov 15, 2004 - 39 answers

What's the best joke/ one-liner you've heard in a speech at a wedding? I'm getting married this year and it's getting to be speech-writing time; the books and websites I've found on this so far have all been quite corny. Does anyone have any gems out there?
posted by adoran2 on Apr 30, 2004 - 24 answers

What's the funniest joke you've heard recently? It seems like nobody tells jokes anymore.
posted by mecran01 on Feb 19, 2004 - 84 answers