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I’m bringing back letter writing. Sending one letter a week to a random person for 26 weeks. I’m on “K”, they're all different. The random person is Emilio Estevez, who you might remember as Coach Bombay in the 1992 movie The Mighty Ducks.
When we’re not looking, there’s a strong chance that dogs do a few sneaky push-ups.
You have a variety of choices at Walmart when it comes to American singles—except the ones locked inside the trailer.
I just went on a date with an optometrist. She's gonna see another guy later and tell us which is better: 1 or 2.
Me: It was the butler, in the dining room, with the plunger.
Genealogy website: OK. Now enter details about your mother.
Everyone you meet is fighting a battle of petty recriminations, narcissistic fantasies, and repetitive loops of boring shit and predictable disappointments you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.
I have a joke about my fear of skydiving but I’m afraid it won’t land.
It’s good to look up the difference between “effect” and “affect” every now and than.
This, ultimately, is the message of the holiday card: “These are the best moments of our year—and they’re not even that good.”
Dog, patting legs: “Shit, can one of you call my bone?”
“Everything is fine,” I sighed while placing my bagel order.
I have a degree in climate change, and in ten years it turns into two degrees.
The drum: sounds' trampoline.
Repeat after me: I am not a parrot.
“Respect adults” was probably the weirdest rule we were given as kids, knowing what I now know about adults.
Me: So anyway, that's why Jake and I aren't talking anymore, because of that thing I said about Jason, and now it's like where do I go from here, you know?
My Gynecologist: So, I'll just mark “No” for sexually active then?
The older you get, the better you get (at lying to yourself).
My uncle used to advise me to never forget Leg Day, which was just what he called the day he lost his leg.
I always put my coffee grounds in the compost pile. I like the idea of keeping those damn raccoons up all day.
I don’t want my doctor to wear jeans and say, “Call me Staci!” I want an 80-year-old in a white coat with glasses who is wise and doesn’t know what TikTok is.
Number one tip from medieval writers: avoid the plague like you do clichés.
I'm not saying that I'm more honest than God, but I've never promised victory to both sides of a war.
I wish I'd been alive when the wheel was invented, because it would've been awesome to see how stoked people were when they could finally use their cars.
Don't anthropomorphize your pets. They hate that.
“This isn't my first rodeo!” I said, pronouncing “rodeo” like “Rodeo Drive,” signaling that it was, in fact, my first rodeo.
“Yes, it will be the most popular fruit of all, but also it will be CRITICAL to Sex Ed classes around the world!”
—God, inventing bananas
When you go to the office, you shouldn't have to leave your morals at the door. Your employer should provide a secure storage space in your cubicle.
As an adult, you still have unrealistic dreams and aspirations. When you were a child you'd say, “I want to be an astronaut” to any grown-up who would listen. Now you say, “I want to be happy” to an apathetic pet or coworker who wishes you were both dead.
If a gym teacher blows his whistle in a forest and no one is there to hear it, did he still wish with that breath that he hadn't peaked as co-captain of the 8th grade wrestling team?
Tell a man a joke and he laughs for a second. Teach a man a joke and someone else laughs for a second, later.
I was told at a very young age that I was gifted. I was also told that my parents never wrote a thank you note to Linda and Steve.
*Tom Cruise on top* Oh boy, looks like we’re doing Missionary Impossible.
I asked a restaurant host if he validated. “Yes,” he said. “You are kind and deserving of respect.”
What if Home Alone was just Kevin safeguarding himself against a virus he believed eliminated his family?
My background in writing and editing has perfectly prepared me for my job as a preschool teacher. After all, I am experienced in fixing people’s mistakes.
—First name?
—Jeff.
—Surname?
—Sir Jeff.
Early paternity tests were only 50% effective: they told you that the child has a father, but they couldn't tell you who it was.
RIP Henry VIII, you would’ve loved Fruit Ninja.
Lao Tzu once said a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I'll take that step into a plane.
My “therapist” thinks I don’t respect his role.
Last holidays, we only got to see grandparents on Zoom. This year, we get to smell them again.
I remember the very last thing my Uncle Bert ever said to me: “Sarah,” he said, “that little tuft of hair between the ears of that hyena is just begging to be noogied.”
I don’t think hurricanes mean any harm, I think they just want to be on TV.
— Nam Tran
When porpoises work out, do they get a rush of endolphins?
— Susan Sassi, @sassers_
Why am I not scared of haunted houses? I don't know, nothing jumps out at me.
Weed lets you live in the moment but only because you can’t remember what happened two seconds ago and because weed lets you live in the moment but only because you can’t remember what happened two seconds ago because weed lets you live in the–
I like learning new things on Wikipedia. And even if an article has been edited and isn't true, that's ok–I like spreading rumors, too.
“Easy like Sunday morning,” she muttered to herself, tweezing another Lego from the tub drain.
My therapist wants me to get in the habit of waking up, meditating, and writing down five things I’m grateful for in a journal. So every day I wake up, have a mild panic attack, and write “that I didn't have social media in high school” in my gratitude.
“Quoting dead philosophers makes you sound like a prick.” —Plato
The Little Engine That Could, Thought it Couldn't, Got Inspired, Second Guessed Itself, Tried a Little, Then Got on Instagram and Forgot All About It
You say I wasn't an overachieving Asian kid but when my dad said to go get a stick for my beating I brought back the biggest hunk of bamboo I could find. And this was in Western Canada.
Boy, are you serotonin because I just don’t get you.
Maeve, age 10: kale is a food I feed my guinea pig. It costs $1 for a huge bag. My guinea pig loves it, but it is all she knows.
Maeve, age 23: kale is a food I feed myself. It costs $15 for a tiny bowl. I love it, but it is all I know.
“You’re an old soul” is a very polite way to say “you’re not fun to be around.”
My coworkers are constantly badgering me about the family photos on my desk. I mean, WHO CARES how I got photos of your families, man.
“10 Ways to Fix Your AirPods” definitely means “We Don't Know What's Wrong With Your AirPods.”
I have a mouse problem. They've been using my ping-pong table as a tennis court.
My job is very cool. (I build snow forts.)
When I was a kid, I hoped I would own a Ferrari someday. Now that I'm an adult, I hope I would get run over by a guy driving a Ferrari someday.
“You're the one,” he always said to his wife. “You're the two,” he always said to his second wife. His English wasn't very good.
It’s astonishing how much time I spend worrying about pedophiles considering they haven’t thought about me in years.
My personal trainer told me I’m an egomaniac pessimist with deep delusions of grandeur and a pattern of subconscious self-deception. So I’m thinking about getting an emotionally estranged trainer.
Today is the first day of the rest of my week.
I don’t care where the states are located. If Oklahoma was next to Maine that’d be OK by ME.
Are there intelligent life forms out there in the universe? Well yeah. No one's visited us yet.
The police came to my house and told me I was a “person-of-interest” in one of their cases. My wife rushed to the door and assured them I had been a bore as long as she’d known me.
Why are men, on average, taller than women? Because most mathematicians were men.
They say, “Revenge is sweet.”
They also say, “Revenge is best served cold.”
So I say, “Revenge is ice cream.”
I got in trouble at work for posting pictures of my wife naked. Next time I'll at least wear sweatpants.
Calculus left me with emotional scars, but not the tools to calculate their surface area.
If you want to make sure another person loves you back, try picking a flower with an odd number of petals.
Get Rich Quick Scheme
Step 1: Wait for Rich in the deserted alley behind his apartment.
Step 2: When he appears, swiftly toss him into the back of your waiting van.
Congratulations, you got Rich quick! What you do with him is up to you.
Anthropologists believe Bigfoot will remain hidden until he has finished his screenplay.
Every kitchen knife I own is dull, and my forks aren't very interesting either.
“Rules are meant to be broken,” I whisper to myself as I leave my passionfruit tea bag in my mug several minutes past the recommended steeping time.
It’s bonkers that some cult classics have smaller followings than some classic cults.
In the joke, “Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side!” the chicken did intend to do so, but unfortunately met a car and crossed over to the “other” side.
My therapist told me that OCD is one of the top ten most debilitating disorders. Since I'm competitive I wanted to know why we're not number one. How can I get our stats up? Is there a March Madness for mental illnesses that I don't know about?
If my walls could talk they would say, “go outside!”
Scientists declared multitasking a myth because when you multitask there is an increase in error, it also takes longer than completing one task at a time… is not the answer to “why did it take women so long to get the vote” according to my ex.
If time travel isn’t possible, then how on God’s green earth do you explain Colonial Williamsburg?
I’m so into shopping local these days I’m dating someone from my hometown.
The Home Shopping Network is always saying “Operators are standing by,” and I'm like, “Finish the fucking sentence.”
In my family, we don't believe in punishing our kids. At least, not until they untie us.
Do dogs know they have bones inside them?
“You’re not like other girls….”
Actually, raging IBS is pretty common among women.
I support a gossip-free workplace but I heard that some of our co-workers don’t.
Being bisexual and anxious means everyone is a potential partner but also a potential threat.
(putting my finger to the lips of diabetes medicine Jardiance®) Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at “rare but serious bacterial infection that causes damage to tissue under the skin in the area between and around your anus and genitals (perineum).”
I should have known Waldo would disappear on me like that. There were so many red and white flags.
The Super Bowl has become so commercialized, its religious meaning is in danger of being lost completely.
What sounds do crickets make when another cricket’s joke bombs?
Counterpoint: Yes worries.
Guy #1: Do you feel like someone's missing?
Guy #3: Yes.— Jon Aron
“There’s broken glass in your sandwich, you should send it back.”
Me, mouth bleeding: “I don’t want to be a bother.”
I’m constantly asked how to build wealth—and it’s simple: have parents who consistently outperform the S&P 500.
Oh, a big powerful plane can fly through the sky but needs a little buddy to push him around on the ground? Pathetic.
As I get older, I can sense people dressing me with their eyes.
I had to split with my boyfriend last week. He was taking too many risks on his Yamaha. The last straw was playing Mozart's “Requiem” blindfolded.
I have two cats: the black one is named Midnight and the orange one is named 5:45.
Why does drinking water from a mug feel illegal?
Remember: Standing up for yourself is the first step to sitting back down for yourself.
“Approach each battle with the persistence of a Norton Security renewal notification, the clandestine secrecy of an overnight Windows update, and the capricious indeterminacy of a printer connection.”
—Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Stop saying “you are what you eat,” it's making me crave employed people.
If I ever see Bigfoot again, I hope he’s changed his “no photos” policy.
My girlfriend broke up with me for falsely quoting movies all the time. All I said to her was, “Frankly, my dear, I don't care.”
— Eli Rubin, @eliisahack
Welcome to my EDtalk. My name is Ed, and I'll be speaking to you about what I consider valid and invalid nicknames for Edward.
My favorite part about coffee is not hearing where the beans came from.
Tracklist from Sméagol’s new album, “Precious”:
1. Precious
2. My Precious
3. The Precious
4. Not Their Precious
5. Our Precious, feat. Tech N9ne
I'm not saying I'm better than Jesus. But I have 13 followers, and he only had 12.
I'm sure whales have a very beautiful name for them, but to humans, they're called blowholes.
I finally figured out what horoscopes are good at predicting: which girls are single.
Pour some out for the homies that didn't make it– Whoa, whoa. Not THAT much.
I’m trying to sketch a bullet, but I keep drawing a blank.
After I came out as a lesbian my ex-boyfriend of two weeks asked what he did wrong.
Well, for starters, you’re a man.
Whenever I'm cutting peppers and I see one of those little baby peppers inside, I'm reminded why I became a pepper doctor in the first place.
If you've ever used the word “heretofore” in conversation, you've purchased something from a haberdashery.
The dentist wanted to know if my teeth hurt, so I bit him.
Jesus spoke to me at church last night. “You wore that yesterday,” he said.
Transparency is key, but for some reason most people can't see it.
It feels right that we use nuggets as a unit of measurement for the three most important things in life: gold, wisdom, and breaded chicken.
If the government banned circumcision, heads would roll from the top down.
In today’s market, there’s no way the average picture is still worth a thousand words.
If you date a musician, you don’t “break up” with them, you drop a new single.
Sometimes I type my computer password incorrectly and hit Enter and my computer rejects it. But then sometimes I hit Enter again as if to say, “Please?”
What do lionesses call a male without a mane? “Just a friend.”
They say you can't reinvent the wheel, but what would you call a Lazy Susan?
I hear a lot of interesting kids names at the playground: Emory, Wellesley, Cornell. These parents really seem focused on college admissions. My wife and I weren't so ambitious. When our son came out, we looked at each other and said, “Ball State.”
“Diet Me” walked so “Vacation Me” could run.
I saw a kid wearing a shirt that says “cousins make the best friends.” Great job to those parents for telling the world your kid has no friends.
A lot of people think that because I’m blonde I’m going to say something stupid or ignorant, but the truth is I’m going to say something stupid or ignorant because I have a liberal arts degree and an inflated sense of self-worth.
“Never stop exploring,” I say, as I find a previously hidden piece of belly button lint.
How long does it take for jelly beans to grow into jellyfish? Asking for my nephew's science project.
I’m so paranoid that the other day in the grocery store a guy asked me if I worked here, and I said WHO DO YOU WORK FOR?
The supply shortage is so bad this year kids won’t be getting razor blades in their candy until mid-February.
No, Slender James is my father. Please, call me Slim Jim.
Zoom meetings are just modern séances. “Hello? Is anybody there? Joe, are you with us?”
When God closes a door, sometimes he opens another, more confusing door like those revolving ones that are too big for one person but it’s weird if you go in with the person in front of you.
One day in 11th grade we had the most appalling substitute teacher. He didn’t know the first thing about substitute.
In school they tell you history doesn’t repeat itself. But it does if you fail all the tests.
For my next trick, I will replace calories lost hiking with this bag of chips.
You say I’m a terrible dad but my other family doesn’t think so.
I always forget that too much socializing gives me the meet sweats.
My girlfriend is obsessed with true crime documentaries about women who kill their husbands. I'm starting to worry about her husband.
Drinking daily green smoothies can provide up to 80% of your personality.
“Not all who wander are lost” is a beautiful quote, but not so reassuring to hear from Google Maps.
If skinny jeans are out and loose pants are in, then what pants are ON? I AM NAKED AND COLD. PLEASE HELP.
“No one can take away your master’s degree” she reassured herself while looking up a word from her first grader's schoolwork.
That moment at the dentist when you forget what the suction thing is called and ask for “Mr. Thirsty.”
I was listening to a news story on the radio about a family whose house had burned down and they lost everything, and I started to cry because I realized I’m now that person who listens to radio.
If mermaids ate worms, it would change everyone's entire mental image of mermaids.
I try to be a good house guest, but I never know if I should leave the toilet seat up or down after I finish rummaging through the medicine cabinet.
Too late for coffee, too early for wine: the unhappy hour.
Assistant: I’m here to help!
Boss: I’m here to make sure you help!
I don't have what it takes to be a kleptomaniac.
— Jon Aron
If you're having trouble writing a book, try writing two books. You will end up writing a book in the process.
Sometimes when I move the space heater from the living room to the bedroom, knowing I'll have to move it back to the living room in the morning, I think, “WILL I JUST HAVE TO KEEP MOVING THIS BACK AND FORTH UNTIL I DIE?”
Have you heard the joke about the airplane that flew forever? Yeah, it never landed.
A misplaced decimal can make things a hundred times worse.
— Rick Post, @RickPostCo
Once I get to the income bracket where tax evasion seems like a feasible idea, that’s when I know I’ve made it.
I let Jesus take the wheel but ended up at a crossroads.
Scam alert: A salon sold me a pricey shampoo for thinning hair, which has only made it thicker.
My five-year-old refers to his Hot Wheels cars as his girlfriends. I can't relate because I've never dated a toy that didn't have batteries.
Here at the Hampton Inn, hospitality is our priority! Our hotel is your home. Now answer me this, would you leave 30 soaking wet hand towels on the bathroom floor of your home?
Why don't we fight rising sea levels by raising sky levels?
This morning I decided to break an old habit and put on my left shoe first. Now they are on the wrong feet.
They say marathon running is a mental sport. In my experience, it's mostly legs.
In relationships I'm like a tech entrepreneur: fail fast and fail forward (into my spaghetti).
When you get Botox, you don’t appear more youthful, you just look like a person who can afford Botox.
I'm a triple threat: great at singing and horrible at counting.
Global warming is the biggest thirst trap of our time.
A genie's biggest fear has got to be a lava lamp.
If I joined a motorcycle gang I would probably be the leader, since I own a car.
They say patience is a virtue, but they don't have to look so damn smug when they say it.
A friend told me he was about to come into a large sum of money, and I asked, “What ever happened to socks?”
My son was bitten by a mouse and now he really likes cheese. This could be the worst superhero origin story ever.
To be honest, a fair credit score isn’t.
If you end all your emails with “thanks” they’ll eventually figure you out.
When a dog licks a stranger's face on a walk, they get adored. When I do the same thing on a walk, all I get is “arrested!”
— Corey Pajka, @CPajka
I could very easily commit to a crime—if it treated me right.
It’s difficult to tell how spiritual animals are, but I am fairly certain most monkfish believe in Cod.
A humor writer walks into a deli and orders a pastrami on wry. The order is then rejected.
September 31 was the day I realized I needed a calendar.
“Nice zombie costume!” the kids at Halloween exclaimed as I opened the door in my usual work-from-home clothes.
Some call it self-loathing, I call it empathizing with the people who know me.
I’m trying to stop comparing myself to others but it seems like everybody else is better at it.
I wish Amazon would buy Facebook so I can buy my privacy back.
Home is where the heart is: a jar in the back of my closet.
Has 2020 been wearing its Halloween costume all year?
Shouldn't it be kidnabbing? Either way, to answer your question: Not Guilty, your honor.
I want a trench coat so other writers will take me seriously and flashers will see me as competition.
Flying a kite is like having the wind on a leash.
The most important thing Brad learned at veterinary clown college was never to vaccinate the balloon animals.
It's fitting that I never learned how to correctly spell “self-sabatogue.”
“Writers of the future” sound like a bunch of procrastinators if you ask me.
We run our home like a business, so our kids will understand that everything comes with a cost. They've been bugging me for months to raise their allowance, so finally I gave in and said, “Okay, but I'm cancelling your health insurance.”
My grandfather had a problem. Well, he had many problems, but one of them was gambling. My mother inherited that from him. She couldn’t inherit anything else. He lost it all gambling.
Titles Ethelred the Unready would have preferred:
Ethelred the Give Me Five More Minutes
Ethelred the I’m Tying My Shoes
Ethelred the Just Wait in the Damn Car
I don't have much to complain about lately, but other than that things are going fine.
You know what’s weird? The misspelling of wired.
Why don't people keep giraffes as pets? Because choosing a name for giraffes is not easy.
Still seeking the level of inner peace of a woman in a commercial eating a single square of dark chocolate.
It’s a shame that the cave people could travel across the ocean millions of years ago for free using a simple ice bridge, yet today we spend millions on air travel.
Sorry for my smelling mistakes.
I have a face only a mother could push through a vagina.
— Mark Peters, @wordlust
If you didn't go to Catholic school, “dress down days” were when, if you raised enough money for charity, your entire class got to make fun of your outfit.
How come we can DRIVE on a PARKway but I can’t PARK my ASS in your HOT tub just because I don’t LIVE here or KNOW you?
My new novel is coming out. Join me for the genre reveal party.
— Rick Post, @RickPostCo
“Purity Ring”? No thank you, my Brita pitcher and I are just friends.
People have a glass of wine in the tub and they're just “winding down” and “relaxing.” I shotgun a few beers in the shower and I'm an “alcoholic” and “not even in my own bathroom.”
Me: If memory serves me correctly–
Memory: I DON'T WORK FOR ANYONE.
Me: I have Asperger's.
My Mom: What?
Me: I was diagnosed.
My Dog: Really sorry. Just wanted to ask about this butt food. Is it possible to do just the ass patty itself? Like, no bun? Actually, scratch that. I'll take it however the chef recommends.
My two-year-old saw something today that no toddler should ever see at the park: a Shakespeare play.
Chipotle’s new robot “Autocado” cuts guacamole production time in half. And their even newer robot “E-Lemon-ador” will gun you down if you put lemonade in your water cup.
Just because I’m racially ambiguous doesn’t mean you have to guess.
Remember 4th grade P.E. when you ran a mile in street clothes and then went directly to math?
Weathermen don’t have regretful one-night stands, they have overnight lows.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me once, I’m still learning how sequencing works.
If you want to be an expert on the Middle Ages, you really gotta know yore shit.
I'm not a life coach yet, but I was recently promoted to assistant life equipment manager.
Forget wikiHow, I need wikiWhy.
I'm going out on a limb, preferably my legs.
None of these therapy dogs even have their degree.
When I get angry, I turn green and burst out of my clothes like the character in that movie. Flubber.
Believe it or not, the modern word “wedding” actually derives from the common Old English phrase “we did a thing.”
I'm a recovering workaholic. I haven't had a job for six years.
I suffer from a disease called “resting approachable face.” It’s like “resting bitch face” but instead of people thinking I’m upset, they think I’d be willing to take a picture of their family.
I don’t mind my doctor using a little hammer to test my reflexes, but are the little nails necessary?
Taught my dog how to shake. Now we just need to get her to explain the gap in her resume.
Sometimes I like to give myself pump up talks on Sunday nights as a reminder that the only thing I can control is not bringing a positive attitude to work.
Damn, the Twin Towers really did everything together.
Today, I saw the cutest baby making their parents laugh. But when I went over, the baby refused to repeat the joke.
I don’t believe in ghosts, which is why I never lend them money.
To choose the correct spelling, trust your judgement. Or maybe your judgment?
God reminds me of my ex. Why? He expects us to be only with him while he is with everyone.
My first grade teacher was Mrs. Password.
I’m very serious about minimalism. I bought like 20 books about it.
“Toaster” is a cute name for a bread torturing device.
Men will respond to any number you say out loud. “He got it for 899.” “Wow.” “I know.” “Is that a good deal?” “I don’t know.” “Dollars or cents?” “I don’t know.” “What’d he get again?” “I forget.”
“I'd like you better if you had blonde hair,” I say condescendingly to the squirrel outside my house.
If we truly are in a simulation, it begs the question: “How many times have I pissed the bed in real life?”
Humans are way more efficient than cars. I’ve walked thousands of miles in my life and only drank 1, 2 gallons of gasoline, tops.
Bartender: And are you over 21, young man?
Me: Pffffft, please, I was born over 21.
Two’s company, three’s a crowd, and four’s just enough to get my cult off the ground.
I felt bad about slapping the bass at rehearsal yesterday. He’s new to a cappella and I was very frustrated with him.
I’ve considered working at a new company. I’ve even considered working at my current company.
🎶 My anxiety has a first name, it’s M-O-N-E-Y! 🎵
I want to write a novel about Schrödinger’s Cat, but I don't know if there's a story there or not.
— Corey Pajka, @CPajka
Law Professor: Do you know all the amendments?
Me: I plead the seventh.
My word is my bond, unless you’re my landlord, in which case it’s $2,200.
Here's a little good news: The murder rate is going down. It's three hundred dollars now.
A friend accused me of sharing humble brags, so I had him removed from my yacht.
My friend has multiple personalities. But he's good people.
I'm glad I have social media because sometimes I feel a little too much like a real human being, and I need some anxiety to coax me back to normal.
Harrison Ford plays Dr. Ricchzzxkaddw3rmms Kiowmcockble, an innocent man who is desperately trying to clear his name.
Paper is just tree jerky.
“Would you quit your honking. I’m going as fast as I can!” But the duck wasn’t finished telling his story.
I recently bought memory supplements, but then forgot to take them.
ALWAYS recycle dead batteries. NEVER put them in the garbage. My brother WILL go through your trash and he WILL throw them at me if he finds them!!
Texting friends at 20: DUDEEES LET'S STAY UP ALL NIGHT TO WATCH THE BATMAN TRILOGY
Texting friends at 25: To whom it may concern, I am available to watch the first hour of The Dark Knight from 8-9pm, but have a hard stop at 9 for “Bedtime.” Thx
I would do anything to be a morning person except effectively manage my time.
You can find my writing in my journals, but please don't.
Gravity was its own downfall.
2020 has helped me understand the plot of Planet of the Apes better. I could see being so fed up with human leadership that you’re like, “Maybe we give the monkeys a shot.”
A watched pot may never boil, but a boiled watch makes time a thing of the past.
Funny men attract hot women and funny women attract hate comments on Twitter.
My neighbors wanted their children to grow up bilingual so they alternated days in which they spoke English and French. This was not a problem until their son came to work with me and I couldn’t understand him half the time.
Whoever said “time heals all wounds” has never had their head impaled by a javelin.
— Corey Pajka, @CPajka
Should a corn dog be called a cold dog since it needs a jacket? Or a HOTTER dog because it HAS a jacket? Something to chew on.
Anytime someone says they'd like to be a “fly on the wall” during some big moment, I think, “You do know people kill flies, right?”
I've made some mistakes, but I'm sure, with some effort, I can repeat most of them.
I’ve never had a Pap smear. The closest I want to come to getting one is going to the doctor, and having him pull out some knives, cream cheese, and bagels—a pap schmear. Sounds so much better.
Transfers of power more peaceful than the 2020 US presidential election: Steve Harvey announcing Miss Universe; when my dad asks my mom what's for dinner and she says, “I don't know, what’d you make?”; Soon Yi going from daughter to wife.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, why is it in my house?
I'm officially moving all of my hours from Daylight Savings to Daylight Checking and spending time like there's no tomorrow.
Hieroglyphs, lately discovered scratched in a wall in Tutankhamun’s tomb: “You must be joking!! Can’t a pharaoh oversleep once like everyone else??”
My wife thinks I'm suffering from depression, but I'm just experiencing a reduction in gross domestic product over two consecutive quarters.
Why don't animals wear shoes? Because they are happy with their height.
STREET SMARTS
Never bring a knife to a gun fight.
Never bring a fork to a knife fight.
Never bring a spoon to a fork fight.
Never bring a whisk to a spoon fight.
Never bring an egg to a whisk fight.
Never bring a grape to an egg fight.
Trying a yoga class is like an office job: strict dress code, a lot of circling back, and you’re stuck in a position for an undetermined amount of time.
People always asking if you want to hear a “fun fact” but they never mention that the “fun” is silent.
I'm a natural ventriloquist. Whenever I speak, it appears a dummy is talking.
Listen, I’m just an ordinary Gleeflawrp. I put my qxtaag on one jrrtyllian at a bloarf, just like everybody else.
If cancel culture is so real then why do I still have so much student debt?
If Shakespeare knew that more than 400 years after his death, people would still be enjoying his work, would he be happy? Or would he be mad because we still haven't invented flying cars?
There’s a lot of nepotism in the Zamboni driving industry.
Shouldn’t the word “phonetic” be spelled “fonetic”?
I am interested in making my ass completely smooth, with no contours or separation, like sea glass or Costco's floors.
I say I’m in my hot girl summer era, but all I really do is just go up to guys in bars and ask them why we can’t just print more money.
Knocking on a door is funny because it's like, “Hey! I'm coming in, but first I gotta teach this door a lesson.”
A good dance instructor would convince NASA to adopt an up-count…
The artist bio can go south really fast: painter, photographer, calligrapher, dentist.
What happened to pirates? They went from plundering the seven seas to stealing my Amazon order at 3 in the morning.
My advice to anyone who needs to get their appendix removed is to hire a licensed editor.
“I say, Sherlock, how is it that you seem to pay no taxes?”
“Deduction, my dear Watson.”
God, exhausted after having created the sun: “Let’s call it a day.”
Why don't aliens wear clothes? Because it's always dark in space.
Explaining the symbols on a map is the stuff of legends.
Between texting and calling, I prefer showing up at your door to see the look on your face when you tell me you’re not home.
Got a pony for my birthday. It got a sore throat so I took it to the vet. The vet said it was just a little horse.
When I could travel in time, I would travel back to the moment I wrote the first word of this sentence and change it to “If.”
I used to do a lot of speed dating. Now I do a lot of speed alone.
Anytime someone compliments my gold watch: “Oh thanks, it doesn’t work, it was $11.”
You seem like the kind of girl who stops traffic. Do you happen to work in a red light district?
Some politicians stand for the truth. As its replacement.
When an airline pilot says they're taking off today, are they going to work or not?
Trust me, you also don't want to look a gift horse in the ass.
When your friends go out for Spanish ham and don't invite you, that's lomo fomo.
Just because I wore all denim to a wedding doesn't mean I'm down with Mumford & Sons.
Your porn name is the first and last name you used to pay your way through college.
I feel like I’m the one being punished for Harvey Weinstein: I haven’t seen more than two decent movies in the last six years.
“Polar opposites” is a term we use to describe two identical frozen wastelands.
— Dan Price, @danpriceink
Male seahorses are the ones that give birth and I'll bet they never shut the fuck up about it.
You are now entering the calzone, where everything is folded in half.
I asked the waiter for an American cheeseburger so he pulled out a rifle and shot my burger 15 times.
My uncle always said, “Don't be the hero.” So I didn't pull the fire alarm.
Thank you, low-sodium hot dogs, for accommodating the health-conscious people who buy tubed meat.
I knew this failed sculpture—huge chip on his shoulder.
Call me idealistic, but I want to live in a world where cyberbullying kills more people than heart disease.
Good things come to those who wait, but better things come to those with rich parents.
When your 3-year-old ends a FaceTime call with his grandmother by saying, “Now be sure to hit the ‘like' button and subscribe to my channel,” it may be time to rein in the YouTube watching.
What do we want? Time travel! When do we want it? Yesterday!
My grandparents grew up in the Depression. I grew up in the anxiety.
Life is like a Jewish telegram: “Begin worrying! Details to follow…”
He wasn't afraid to ask the tough questions, but he sure was afraid of clowns.
I’m an anesthesiologist by day and a ventriloquist with a sedated patient by night.
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They say you should never meet your heroes. That's why I've never met my dad.
Non sequitur? I hardly know her.
Whoever said “actions speak louder than words” must not have heard about shouting.
I’m a donkey and my pronouns are hee/haw.
It's crazy how divided this world has become since Pangea.
My grandfather worked his entire life in a mirror factory. He just couldn't see himself doing anything else.
“Girls will be girls” I say as a drive over my neighbor’s curb and into her petunias for the second time this summer (:
Does anyone want to be in a platonic relationship? Asking for a friend.
I only need a cursory glance at the Dunning-Kruger study to tell you just how flawed it is.
My YouTube yoga instructor says to notice what’s around me (I notice there’s dust and hair all over my floor) then to do what feels good (so I don’t clean it up).
When we got to the restaurant I was asked if I had reservations. I said some but we'll eat here anyway.
They tell me I shouldn’t eat so much red meat because of how it disrupts everyone else at church.
Spokane word poetry is really big in Washington.
Things have gotten so bad that I'm now putting coffee in my coffee.
One of my thumbs snapped my other thumb in half. It turns out I have opposable thumbs.
Sock puppeteers probably start at ankle socks and work their way up.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Repeat offenders are the worst.
If you die on a picnic, you die in real life.
Carrots are supposed to make your eyesight better but my blind neighbor still never sees them coming.
My ex-boyfriend was way ahead of everybody in preparation for this pandemic, because he was already unemployed and living with his parents.
I wish more people were fluent in silence.
They say live your life like it’s your last day on Earth. I say, “Live your life like it’s your next to last day on Earth.” That way if you screw up, you still have an extra day.
Before you act, ask yourself, is this: My circus? My monkey?
“I wish I had something to complain about,” she whined.
It's kind of amazing how many words you can get out of the letters W, H, and O. Think about it: There's “who,” of course. There's “how.” Ah, maybe it's just two.
A month ago my girlfriend convinced me to go full vegan. After eating two to three pounds of hay for every meal since then, I’ve come to the conclusion that love is overrated.
I’ve been observing nature a lot lately. Trees blowing gently in the wind, birds of all colors singing beautifully, and I’ve got to say: I’ve really found myself… unemployed.
My friend asked me if I was a snitch, but I can’t tell.
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Here at the National Weather Service, we pride ourselves on accuracy, which is why at any given moment at any given weather station we have a man licking his finger and holding it in the air.
Hack: I updated my LinkedIn headline to “Visual Storyteller” and was instantly recruited by Rooms To Go.
People refer to us as a spiritual couple but I think they just mean poor.
Ever notice how many dinosaur names sound alike? Who came up with all of them anyway, Thesaurus?
I was going to attend a seminar on procrastination, but I told myself I could always go later.
A traffic cop's dedication to their work, no matter the weather or time of day, inspires me to be a better interpretive dancer.
Girl of my dreams: Loves me unconditionally, smart, beautiful, supports my decisions.
Girl in my dreams: Face is obscured, wraith-like, touches my elbow which makes me cum instantly.
Respiration magazine just released the newest fashion trends:
In: Oxygen
Out: Carbon Dioxide
This year’s been so bad, my antidepressants tried to throw themselves down the drain.
Say what you will about the Large Hadron Collider, but it keeps particle physicists off the streets.
Feelings: they never had a chance. You never hear about them swimming, only sinking.
I never pay full price for designer perfume when I can buy generic. That's just common scents.
If you're happy and you know it overthink it until you're not sure anymore.
Strong passwords must exercise regularly to maintain their strength.
New erotic bread flavors at your local artisan bakery:
– Sourdough foreplay
– Multiple-orgasm-grain
– Heavily nutted and wetted
– Random big holes for his pleasure
– Not-that-interesting-but-honest-about-it for her pleasure
– Cake
After my wife accused me of being overly defensive, it took weeks to figure out how she breached the outer perimeter.
Hanging with art friends and repeatedly pointing at graffiti and shouting “Is THAT a Banksy?!” until they snap.
Sure, eat the rich if you want… but it sort of seems like an unnecessary extra step.
When life gives you lemons, resell them as “rare, heirloom, organic, locally-sourced citrus produce.”
Leatherface was always outshined by his fabulous cousin, Patent Leatherface.
I used to do a lot of Shakespeare in the park, or, as the Chicago Police like to call it, “Drunk and Disorderly Conduct.”
Make-up artist on Instagram live: So if you have any questions, leave them in the comments!
Me: *lowers hand*
Given the choice, I'll bet Mary would have preferred an immaculate birth.
Come to think of it, organized crime is a lot better than UNorganized crime. “Give me the gun!” “There’s no ammo.” “Where the hell is the ammo?” “I forgot it in the car!” “Why??!” “Idk, don’t yell at me!!”
— Nam Tran
For a town whose motto is “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” they sure sell a lot of souvenirs.
— Barry Purcell, @solo1y
People say I look the same as I did in high school. I was ugly in high school.
My therapist diagnosed me with narcissistic personality disorder. That must have been the highlight of her week.
When I check to see if “risktaker” is one word, two words, or hyphenated, I feel like I'm missing the point.
“Snitches Get Stitches” wasn't Doctor Seuss's best work, but it was certainly his most memorable.
No matter how well read you are, there’s always someone weller read.
My willingness to use words I don't know is truly plaintiff.
The Dad Joke is dead. Please welcome, the Papa Pun.
A shy pastor is one who waits for the choir boy to make the first move.
Who has two thumbs and never says the punchlines of old jokes?
I’m not the type of crazy ex to key your car or anything, I’m the type of crazy ex who has taken a virtual Zillow tour of the home you bought with your new girlfriend and knows where you sleep. I'm doing fine though.
Top 5 Worst Places to Be Shot
1. The Gap
2. The hip
3. In line for the waterslide (near top)
4. The Head… and the Heart revival tour
5. During a traffic stop on your way to an interview at The Gap
*Sees empty skyscraper* I can fix him.
My dad saw a sign that said “Drive Like Your Kids Live Here,” so he sped up.
The closest I've ever come to participating in an orgy is taking a Zoom call naked.
“Dress for the body you have, not the body you want.”
–Motivational serial killer
Told my co-worker we should form a union. We have now been happily married for 12 years.
When a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, it lies there quietly wishing it lived in the city.
What was that word again? Oh yea, “unforgettable.”
If math is hard, then why are mathletes so soft?
Weddings would be more fun if The Worst Man gave a speech.
Technically they’re not free weights if they’re trapped in a gym.
My mom says I shouldn’t write because I get confused too often. Like ok, what does she know? All she does is sulk, like Eeyore from The Little Mermaid.
I don't know why people knock The Pull-Out Method. It's worked for my family for generations.
Two hippies are driving to a concert. The driver says to the passenger, “Look out the window, and tell me if my blinker is working.” The passenger looks out the window and says, “Yes. No. Yes. No…”
My family gave me a smartwatch for Christmas. I'm hoping it will help with my 12 steps.
If sugar truly is more addictive than cocaine, then I really need to stop putting sugar in my cocaine.
Witness: This guy literally bragged about committing the murder.
Murderer: I told you that in confidence!
I asked my six-year-old why she didn't pick me as her hero for a school project. She said she thought the irony would be lost on her peers.
I saw a guy throw a trash can into a dumpster. Is that cannibalism?
Every few times I go to the dentist I give him a good bite while his fingers are in my mouth, just so he knows not to mess around in there.
Bragging about achieving something single-handedly sounds like you only put in half the effort.
Recently became familiar with the concept of a yawn. For years I feared sleepy people were trying to eat me.
I bet if instead of killing yourself you could turn yourself into a turtle, there'd be a lot less suicide and a lot more turtles.
Three wise men arrive at the manger to see newborn baby Jesus.
Joseph: Why do they call you wise men?
Wise Man: We book our rooms in advance.
I’m not jealous of our dog, but would it kill my wife to say “Good boy!” when I poop?
I think “renting your body” is a better description for prostitution than “selling your body.” Imagine someone says they're “selling their house” but you find out that they're just letting people have sex with the house for $200 an hour.
When I babysit my niece, sometimes she'll ask tough questions like, “Where's my mom?” So I have to reply, “Well, your mom's in heaven.” Because I just love the look of childlike wonder on her face when her mom walks through the front door.
Is there anything more precious than a child's laughter? Yes: their extremely valuable, and virtually unused, kidneys.
In college my roommate drove around in the rain without turning on his windshield wipers because he thought it was important not to become dependent on them. Interestingly, he’s now married to his imaginary girlfriend.
My insurance company gave me a blanket. It only covers about a third of my body.
“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” Juliet ponders after Romeo turned his phone location off after getting “drinks with the boys.”
Thinking about being cryogenically frozen for a few years, I could really use a vacation.
I was bullied as a child. My mom told me to tell my bullies, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words–” but they just went, “You hear that guys? That's his weakness. Let's break his bones!”
Who do I talk to about new punctuation for rhetorical questions? I mean, really?!
Beggars should not be choosers. They should be cooks, firefighters, scientists, something that pays.
Ok, I understand you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but who actually wants to read a WHOLE book to judge it?
Unskippable Army ads on YouTube make me root for the terrorists.
When I look at those drawings where right-brained people see a horse, and left-brained people see a penguin, all I see is an artist that needs to change careers.
— Rick Post, @RickPostCo
I guess I'm going to have to be the one to produce the Scarface prequel, Scabface.
I'm so woke, my favorite romantic comedy is “Um, Actually….”
When I walk my dog, I get the sense he thinks he’s doing me a favor.
If there were laws for dogs they’d probably stop messing around all the time and get to work.
*Me after a breakup in 4th grade*
“Is it better to have like-liked and lost? Or to have never like-liked at all?”
You are not you're mistakes.
It was the best of rhymes, it was the worst of fives.
“No, I'm not saying I want to sell feet pics. I'm saying I'd like an appraisal.”
I’m a mnmlst.
The Electric Slide sounds like some sort of torture device, which also happens to be the way I view dancing.
The hordes of out-of-towners who descended upon Walden Pond were told that the Thoreau Fair was a stone’s throw from the thoroughfare.
Realty advice: rather than “haunted,” try “talkative” or “in high spirits.”
I have this friend I call “the priest” because he wears all black and carries a rosary. Once he even enrolled at a seminary and took a vow of chastity, and now he says Mass every day and lives at a rectory. He's a priest.
*Sees someone with gold, frankincense, or myrrh* Oh a wise guy, eh?
I hope to die doing what I love: Creating content.
The hangman apologized because he accidentally put the noose under the sentenced man’s arm. “That’s okay,” said the condemned. “Just don’t let it happen again.”
I think D.A.R.E. would have been more effective if it were called Double Dog D.A.R.E.
I’m looking for a partner who gives me the level of attention, responsiveness, and general concern that a gym gives me after I've missed a couple of payments.
My kids are of the age now where their magic tricks are all in three parts, and the middle part is always “Look away.”
It's not my fault I say dumb things. It's in my D&A.
You know what Kant said, so no point repeating it.
Took down my crucifix today. Not because I don't believe. I just don't want a famous person to watch me cry-eat Scooby-Doo fruit snacks in the nude.
People asked me how I got my hands on my Grandma's wealth when she passed away and I told them “where there's a will, there's a way.”
I’m neither an early bird nor a night owl, I’m a midday pigeon who only leaves my apartment to procure garbage food.
If you live in Houston long enough people start calling you “Tex.” I've lived in Chicago long enough that even my therapist calls me “Ill.”
I write Star Trek: The Next Generation erotic fanfiction for a living. So, yeah, I work in Data Entry.
When I did those alcohol safety modules for college, I was disgusted by reading about drinking. I told myself I've got to stop and I did. I'm proud to say I haven't read a single thing since.
You know how magpies will seek out, treasure, and hoard shiny yet useless little things? That is how I act around the seasonal items at Trader Joe's.
I’m no Olympic biathlete, but it seems to me the most obvious winning strategy would be to shoot all your opponents and take the penalty laps for missing the targets.
“Gimme an ice cream sundae. Make it a double.”
–Child detective
Want to write haiku
Don't have any ideas
Try again later
Some of you have never searched for Atlantis and it really shows.
— Dylan Wain, @ZTohbar
Your stripper name is the word “horny” and then your regular name.
The only validation I seek is from parking attendants.
Magicians don’t retire, they become disillusioned.
Live your life like you will have something to say when a sadistic monster asks everyone in the meeting to share something interesting about themselves.
We’re thinking Telenovela if it’s a girl, True Crime if it’s a boy.
I want a man who will text me less than Seamless when food is on the way, but more than Seamless after I tell them the order was wrong.
An easy way to beat a lie detector is with a baseball bat.
I used to know all my friends’ phone numbers by heart and now I can’t walk into a room without saying “what was I gonna do in here?”
For tips on falling asleep quickly, expert sleep therapists suggest having no regrets.
Potential ridesharing company for teens: Uberty.
Tried to join a yoga class but even my schedule wasn’t flexible enough.
Groundhog Day means six more weeks of winter. Ground Beef Week means we’re eating like kings.
How to Get Away With Murder? First, I'd probably pick a different name for your show.
I don’t mean to get political, but I love a good party.
Why do they call them contractions and not birth quakes?
Business idea: HelloFresh, but the meal is already cooked and it's pizza.
I really need to stop spelling “Colledge” with a “D”. Looks bad on my resume.
We're experiencing a national coin shortage. It doesn't make any sense. How are activists supposed to make any change?
— Susan Sassi, @sassers_
My favorite part of a nutritious breakfast is sleeping right through it.
Words can hurt. Ask anyone who’s ever had a dictionary thrown at them.
— Corey Pajka, @CPajka
What if there's another set of teeth after the permanent teeth, but no one has ever lived long enough to find out?
I once worked at a used car dealership for cars that would randomly start driving. We stood behind every car we sold.
It’s pretty crazy that the writer of “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” knew another guy with the exact same name.
God, grant me the Courage to use words I don’t know the meaning of,
Serenity to argue the definition of those words,
And Felicity to hold my ground in said arguments.— Liam Paris, @liam_paris
Learning how to pick locks has really opened up a lot of doors for me.
I’m the Michael Jordan of softly saying “okay” to myself 75+ times per day.
I don't go thrift shopping, I go good will hunting.
If you’re determined enough, everything is a choking hazard.
“The only way out is through.”
—Me, forcing myself to finish the expensive iced coffee that I bought but don’t really like
I hate when people say Frankenstein's penis when they really mean Frankenstein's Monster's penis.
LOST: Maze builder. Last seen on way to work.
Honestly, “good and evil” seems like, if it’s that extreme, should be “GREAT and evil.”
Heard someone say that everyone picks their nose but I don’t remember getting to choose mine.
Working Titles for Covid Summers:
– Hot Mess Summer
– Vaccine for HPV Summer
– White Boy Can Come But We’ve Got an Eye On Him Summer
– Masks On, Tits Out Summer
– What About the Variants Summer
– Eh, We All Die Eventually Summer
– Oh Right! I Hate Going Out Summer
Whatever your opinion on Mark Rothko's art, you have to admit the guy didn't cut any corners.
I'm built different. Worse.
Hey kids, Elmo is now in his forties, so if he asks you to tickle him, please tell your parents.
Books about cowards should have their spines removed.
— Ken Ward, @kentaroward
A small centaur can have two ponytails.
“Climb ev’ry mountain. Ford every stream. Do it with REI.” -Maria Von Trapp, Instagram influencer
When I was a kid my grandma’s idea of road safety was hugging me tighter in the backseat. Now my grandma complains that a mask hugs her face too tightly, and that’s called carma.
How many lightbulbs does it take to change a dyslexic.
Imagine my surprise discovering “Sex Ed” was just the name of a class and not the name of the coolest guy in high school.
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to be crushed by it, did it miss an opportunity?
I’m not addicted to caffeine, my boss is addicted to me staying awake at work.
“If I EVER find sufficient evidence that your phone call could have been an email, you WILL be required to dig up and re-bury one body using ONLY your hands. Capiche?”
-A voicemail from your new Mafia Boss
My wife believes in horoscopes. That's so embarrassing. But what can you expect from a Libra.
“I am LITERALLY dying!” a dying woman exclaimed.
“Actually, you are figuratively dying,” a random man corrected her now-lifeless corpse.
Gamblers: Read ‘em and weep
Gardeners: Weed ‘em and reap
I could never get a dog because you need to walk them no matter the whether. But people with dogs always say to me, “I love how my dog gets me out of the house no matter the weather, and it’s spelled ‘weather,’ idiot.”
When I said I wanted to make the world a better place I meant better for myself.
— Daniel Gujic, @zvoncek5
I was a runner in high school. We went to the state championship. And when people say they went to the state championship, that means they lost the state championship.
People look at me funny when I tell them I'm color blind. I'm not a freak. I still get turned on by peacocks!
Studying Bantu languages is tough at first, but eventually it just clicks.
In my dreams I’m on Jeopardy! and they’re asking questions only about my family. The host says, “Aunt Mimi,” and I buzz in. “Who is Rob’s wife?” “Correct.” “Aunts for a thousand.”
In this week’s episode, the Property Brothers travel to Tatooine to help Jabba transform a decrepit fixer-upper into his Forever Hutt.
Happy National Stalker Day to those who observe.
Call Me By Your Name sounds like an un-filled-out Mad Libs prompt.
All dating is carbon dating.
Being homeschooled is like going to Hogwarts: if you learned anything, it’s magic.
After further inspection, “boyfriend material” revealed to be cheap polyester blend.
JFK said, ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country's congressmen to change the laws so you can get a larger tax refund to give to that congressman.
When my uncle died, we bought the casket from IKEA. The funeral took all weekend.
It feels like they make movies these days like Midwest winters: no color, cold characters, and lasting a lot longer than you want it to.
Oh, so when roosters wake up and immediately start screaming it’s “nature” but when I do it it’s “disturbing”?
“I can fix him,” says the vet, examining my new pet Rottweiler who ruthlessly humps anything in his path.
McDonald's Employee: The ice cream machine is broken.
Women: I can fix him.
The New York Times will say “Breaking News!” then tell you news that is still intact.
I don't believe in sex after marriage.
Whoever said “brevity is the soul of wit” never heard my lesser-known belief that in fact, the opposite of brevity (lengthy, meandering wordiness) may truly be at the heart of what many people, such as myself, think of as humorous joke-telling.
It’s not easy being the son of Frankenstein. No matter how many bodies you reanimate, no matter how many villages get pillaged, people will always say, “Oh, you’re Victor’s boy!”
I guess after eighteen years, I'm willing to consider accounting my “calling.”
I was named after my mother. She was named 30 years prior.
— Diana Witt, @_dianawitt
If you ever show your friends a picture of your crush, and you have to say, “Let me find a better picture of them,” it means they're ugly.
Whenever an obnoxiously loud car revs its engine all I hear is, “VROOM VROOOOM TO GROW AS A PERSON!”
I went to Davidson College. I was… I always forget the difference between Magna Cum Laude and Summa Cum Laude. Anyway, I was neither.
There's nothing worse than exercising, eating healthy, and not drinking, and realizing it works.
Using a laptop at a standing desk makes you look like the saddest corporate DJ of all time.
On the first day, God said “Let there be light” and there were overhead fluorescent lights. God saw the light, that it was bad. He regretted His lack of specificity.
The worst part about being blonde is that people assume you’re having fun.
I’ll sell my brain before I sell my phone, because it’s worth more these days.
Growing up, I had such low self-esteem, my imaginary friend became my imaginary bully.
“Ready for our phishing trip, son?”
“I can’t wait, Dad,” the Nigerian Prince replied. “Just one problem: I don’t get my inheritance for a month. Can you send money to tide me over? I’ll pay you back double.”
“That’s my boy,” the King said proudly.
Weather forecasters have been getting threatening messages lately. But to be optimistic they’re calling them “partly non-threatening.”
Prison is just the most advanced level of escape room.
It's called Reverse Psychology. Don't look it up.
What is worse than the fall of the Roman empire? The winter.
Doctor: You're losing your hair because you're anxious.
Psychiatrist: You're anxious because you're losing your hair.
Me: *anxiously loses hair*
I don't like kids. That's why I had low self-esteem as a child.
What doesn't kill you may be arrested for attempted murder.
Literary spin-offs I completed during the pandemic: “Journey to the Center of My Couch,” “One Trapped in the Cuckoo's Nest,” “Little House Wanted on the Prairie,” “Every Man is an Island.”
Without my memory, who am I?
I’m such a rule-follower, I lower my voice when I look through those Little Free Libraries.
I followed in the footsteps of my hero. Now he has a restraining order against me.
Veganism is fine, but some people take it too far. I know one vegan who won't even say cheese for a picture.
“You look very young for your age.”
“Thanks, I was born premature.”
I’m vegan which means when I go out to eat with my family I get something with tofu instead of the respect of my grandfather.
We Color-Blind people love St. Patrick’s Day. Or as we call it, “International That’s Green For Sure Day.”
I don't believe in hard work. It's just a way for some people to justify good fortune.
Which book about decision making should I read first?
When I die I want to be buried at sea, because it seems like a big headache for everyone involved.
Stop begging the question. Maybe just ask it nicely?
Don't let “growing old” get you down; you may not be able to stand back up.
I had a joke about World Introvert Day, but I think I'll keep it to myself.
What did the bad joke have to say for itself? “Let me explain.”
Flashers don’t get paid. They just do it for the exposure.
I'm a big believer in fairness. For example, I believe that if Air Bud can play basketball, then Larry Bird should be allowed to live in my yard and drink from my toilet.
People describe getting hair extensions like you'd describe getting your period to a fourth grader: “You can still do all the same things! Swim, take a bath, even go for a run!”
You may not believe that contractions are difficult for me to use correctly, but they’re.
“That’s show biz, kid,” I whisper to myself after making yet another decision I know will make my life worse but definitely more interesting.
If it smells like toast, walks like toast, and talks like toast, you are taking some powerful drugs.
If you don’t finish the punchline of a dad joke, it becomes an absentee father joke.
My depression has been so bad lately, I think my dog is catching it. I asked him if he wanted to go for a walk and he looked at me for a long time, sighed, and said, “What’s the point? I’m just going to end up back at the same place I am now.”
I come from a very pretentious family. Our pet owl said “whom, whom.”
I often wish an intruder would break into my home at night because maybe HE will take my Spider-Man pajamas seriously.
Bonsai: The Ancient Zen Art of Humiliating Trees
If a bunch of crows is a murder, and two crows are an attempted murder, is one crow just in the planning stage?
Horse racing: the only sport where they shoot the athlete and pay the equipment.
If you expect me to believe in reincarnation, you must think I was reborn yesterday.
I made a controversial joke at the annual National Victoms of Strokes Conevntion. Only half the room laughed.
What is a “quarian” and why are so many old people against it?
When people say they need to “unplug and recharge,” are they just using a wireless charger?
Prison counselor humor:
“Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”
Don’t be intimidated by super models. Super models are just normal people that were bitten by radioactive models.
The best jam: strawberry
The worst jam: toe— Betsy Holt, @BetsyGHolt
Doctor: Good news. Your prostate is totally healthy.
Patient: Thanks! I’m going to be bringing in another one next week.
I don’t mean to brag, but I make everything look much harder than it is.
Everything in moderation. In other words, extreme moderation.
Nobody ever talks about defunding the fashion police or abolishing finger guns.
Me: I'm not sure if I'm a “genius.”
Me: I'm not sure if you'd say that I can “spell.”
Me: I'm not sure if I “once left a man for dead” in “the Grand Canyon.”
Me: Sorry, what was the question again?
Interviewer: I haven't asked you anything yet.
Any restaurant is a drive-thru if you're a bad enough driver.
I saw this ad for a sale that said “Buy one, get one!” And I was like—no shit.
My English teacher always told me “You can't spell ‘success' without help.” Because I was a really bad speller.
If you’re ever on the run from the law, don’t get into a chase. That’s how they catch you.
I'm only 20 but I have the body of a 30-year-old—it's taking up all the room in my freezer.
They say that laughter is the best medicine, so I put Silly String in my grandpa’s oxygen tube. He said it tasted awful. Well, he didn’t say it, he just kind of mumbled it and then there was some loud and fast beeping.
It’s hard to rebuild a place after a fire. It’s even harder when it’s a wax museum.
Why don't animals ever 69? Because they can't count that far.
Sometimes people qualify time as “good”: “How long’s it take to get there?” “A good half hour.” What’s a bad half hour? Is that when you have to listen to jazz fusion?
Idle hands are the devil’s playthings. Idle feet are the devil’s kink.
At times an instructor might tell you to stand on the balls of your feet, but that kind of hurts the penis of my feet.
There should be a food delivery app that also tells you what part of your order will be wrong or forgotten.
I don't understand oat milk. I've never met an oat with tits.
I always hoped one day we could have flying cars, but no matter how many Volvos I push out of nests, they never learn.
It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make one tablespoon of honey, but less than 13 seconds for me to place a dollop on each of my nipples.
A Narwhal-nado would actually be much deadlier than a sharknado.
Contrary to popular belief I do not just “stay in sweatpants all day.” I start with outside sweatpants, then house sweatpants, and then bedtime sweatpants.
Give a squirrel a nut and you feed it for a day, teach a squirrel to nut and you'll be in prison for a lifetime.
If there's one thing I've learned about reaching for the stars, it's that famous people don't like to be grabbed.
I always wanted to be a psychic, but some things just don’t turn out how you imagine.
Hi, my name is Jacob, but my friends call me “overbearing.”
“This town ain’t big enough for the two of us,” said Tiny Tim. “I agree, and to be honest, I think that’s mostly my fault,” said Enormous Tim.
I grew up in a pretty conservative household. Like, for example, when I lost a tooth as a kid, I’d put it under my pillow and wake up with it back in my mouth.
I finally quit Facebook. It was making me too angry, even with people close to me. My last comment was: “Die Nazi scum! And tell Grandma thanks for the birthday card.”
Why do some people look so cool wearing clear glasses, but I look like I’m about to mix unknown sample B over a Bunsen burner?
Magician: Pick a card, any card!
Me: (picks a birthday card)
Magician: (tearfully) You remembered.
Try our new plant-based burgers. Based on the incredibly true story of plants.
Don't judge me 'til you've cruised a mile in my Heelys.
I called tech support for my quantum computer. They told me to turn it both on and off simultaneously.
What's the punctuation you're supposed to use to end a statement? No that's not it
Children should be seen and not run over.
I'm a gumball, and the secret to withstanding inflation is really just a hard, protective shell.
I love painting houses, but I hate property damage misdemeanors.
I can see why they went for the brand name “Superdry”—“Arid” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.
Every workout class today:
– Held in a dark cave blasting remixes at a decibel level you didn’t know was legal indoors
– The instructor is named Morgan, the perkiest girl in Bama rush
– Morgan smile-yells into a microphone to do an exercise you've never heard of
Next time you use a bidet, do it blindfolded. It’s like a VR waterslide.
I like eating at a diner. I like when the place is named after me.
Soldier 1: The rockets red glare looked cool. But I messed up the bombs and they just started bursting in air.
Soldier 2: Don't worry about it. Doubt anyone noticed.
What's the difference between a bird and a plane? Birds can't even hold their own shit when flying but planes can fly and carry the shit of hundreds of people at the same time.
Perhaps our scientists should get to work finding a way to harvest hindsight so that they don't regret it later when they find out that's what they should have been doing all along.
The full moon looked angry as it rose. Or perhaps it was just a phase.
Spelling Bee? Yeah, that's super easy, it's only three letters.
I’m going to run for mayor not because I want to get into politics or help my community, I just love cutting ribbons with giant novelty scissors.
I’d prefer to die in quicksand than slow sand.
I heard minimalism reduces stress, but I've been worrying myself sick since I cleared out my bank account.
I hate to be that guy, but your mother and I are splitting up.
I envy my dog’s ability to have a conjugal visit with himself.
— Mark Peters, @wordlust
I’m an activist and scholar whose praxis embodies the intersections between liberation from systemic injustice and screaming demeaning names at strangers.
Every morning at four, I let two cats out and one cat in, except on Thursdays when I let one cat out and two in. The other cat stands in the doorway indecisively. This daily cat math has kept my mind agile for the last five years. Or has it been six?
Guide to Job Hunting:
1. Once you've hunted the job, cut the heart out and bite it as its beating slows.
2. Skin and drain the job.
3. Use all parts of the job—waste not, want not!
4. The bones of most jobs can be reshaped into tools to hunt future jobs.
Skittles: Taste the rainbow. Caress the rainbow. Fall madly in love with the rainbow. Move in with the rainbow. Argue with the rainbow. Forgive the rainbow. Discover the rainbow has ties to the Mob. Forgive the rainbow. Avenge the rainbow.
There can only be one girl boss, the rest are just girl associates.
I read that a shark will lose almost 1,000 teeth a year. And I thought I was forgetful.
Love is something you’re in, like tall boxes you can’t jump high enough to see over the edge of, or escape from, or scream loud enough for someone to hear you and cut a hole in to rescue you.
When we were told to chase our dreams, nobody mentioned they'd be mostly anxiety dreams.
I asked my wife to get better about communicating her feelings, so she started making regular adjustments to my life insurance coverage.
My therapist is writing a book about narcissism, and I'm pretty sure the whole thing is about me.
What kind of world is it that shorts are not half the price of pants?
Hey girl, you must be a Terms and Conditions checkbox, because I’d ignore all the warnings and hit that.
I was shocked to learn my neighbor is a serial killer. He seemed like such an asshole.
Early to bed, early to rise, makes people smug, annoying and unnecessarily enthusiastic.
My wife longed to hear the patter of tiny feet around the house, so I canceled our pest control service.
Catcalling generally makes me feel weird and bad, but one time I walked out of my apartment and a man gasped and exclaimed, “A beautiful woman!” in the same tone a shipwrecked sailor might use when he sees help on the horizon, and it kind of made my day.
I have seasonal allergies, which sucks because there are four seasons and one is happening all the time.
Staring into the mirror, I say out loud, “You're such an idiot. What are you doing with your life? Maybe you should just drive yourself into a river, call it a day.” Which is a terrible thing to say, and an even more unsettling thing for the Uber driver to hear.
Never understood death row inmates who who order gargantuan last meals. The last thing I feel like doing after a huge meal is getting executed. Too full!
Breaking News: Congress found a quarter behind America's ear.
I recently joined a dating site. Turns out women find me utterly resistible.
“You suck!” screamed Roger, leaving Eusuk the vampire to wonder whether Roger was referring to his name, his nature, or the fact that he had just missed a relatively easy penalty kick.
“We are not sheep.”
“All together now!”
“We are not sheep!”
—Conspiracy theorist subreddits
I'm so proud of my son for starting his lemonade stand. How many kids put in the work to launder stolen lunch money?
They say true love is when you love someone else as much as yourself. I know I'm in love because I absolutely hate my girlfriend.
My parents have always been very supportive of my writing. I think that indicates how bad I am at everything else.
Just For Men’s “Touch of Gray” is honestly a lot worse than the other Fifty Shades books.
I don’t usually think robots are capable of true evil, but sometimes when I’m waving my hand frantically trying to get a paper towel dispenser to work, I can almost hear it saying “dance for it, stupid girl!”
When my girlfriend said, “Let's pretend we're the only two people in the world,” she didn't expect me to immediately start grieving my dead family.
Partly cloudy is just the sky announcing it has commitment issues.
I started writing notes to self, but I gave up because I never wrote back.
Stop being passive-aggressive. You know who you are.
Knock-knock jokes are for the child, knock-knock-knock-knock-knock-knock-knock-knock jokes are for the octopus.
“It's not really ‘rock music' so much as it's a blend of super-inverted neo-eco-organic noncore and a multi-voiced hyper-infarcted pop-rock-steel-feel experimentation in mono-dialogical noise.”
—Rock musician from next door
Patient: (moving his leg) It hurts when I do this.
Doctor: So don't do that.
Patient: I have to, I'm an actor.
Doctor: Can you do it differently?
Patient: Well, I've wanted to get into directing for a while.— Eli Rubin, @eliisahack
I’ve been a cereal stocker for a while at my local grocery store. The pay is okay, but it makes for a terrible introduction when I go on first dates.
It has long been said that he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword, and he who does lifelike impressions of a bad Italian chef shall die by blunt-force tortellini.
People say they “summer” or even “winter” places, but never “fall.” “I fall in Delaware.” I think that means you live there.
Doctors are currently fighting a civil war over the correct interpretation of the hippocratic oath.
I’m “eh” sexual, which means I’m only attracted to Canadians.
Gas is so expensive, I can’t even afford a sex drive anymore.
The brain surgery industry seems biased towards elitists with medical degrees.
I don’t know if my blood has a type. I’ve never let it date anyone.
My sister can say Hugh Grant looks hot in Love Actually, but as soon as I say I want to make out with The Grinch, all of the sudden there's a problem.
I want a small wedding. No friends, no family, just the Muppets.
Not all who wander are lost… they're just always in my way when I'm trying to get over to the right exit ramp.
— Ben Wink
“Kiss Me Thru the Phone” wasn't about phone sex, it was about how your relationship with your parents automatically gets better when you move far far away.
What is the difference between a poet and a CEO? A poet uses words and a CEO uses people.
You can lead a horse to a bar, but you can’t make it buy you a drink.
The Olympics are kinda cute. It's just one country saying, “Do you guys wanna come over and play some games?”
I love when movies based on a true story show pictures of the real people during the credits. It’s like, “Here’s the people you just watched, only uglier.”
My cat hates when I bathe her and to be honest I don't enjoy it all that much either. It takes days to get all her hair out from my throat.
My friend lost his hearing and now he’s worried that he won’t be able to find a spouse. He’s afraid there’s no wife after deaf.
If there are two things I took away from my last job, they're kleptomania and my boss's computer.
— Eli Rubin, @eliisahack
How many fanboys does it take to screw in a light bulb? Just one. The problem is, he'll refuse to take the bulb out of the box because then it “won't be worth anything.”
I like to think that Marco Polo found himself in the end.
I knew I had to stop drinking when I couldn’t hold my liquor anymore without spilling while changing lanes.
If blindfolded, could a professional investment manager tell the difference between common shares of Coke and Pepsi? Discuss.
He named it “The Lord of the Rings” when he COULD have named it “7 Hobbits of Highly Effective People.”
I love the Admiral’s Feast at Red Lobster, but I’ll never order the Ensign’s Expired Eel again.
How do we decide which soup of the day becomes soup of the year?
AMBER ALERT: Middle-aged blonde woman in pink dress taken by spikey-shelled, bipedal turtle in egg-shaped, single-pilot helicopter. Last seen at border of Mushroom Kingdom.
My knowledge of Greek history is my Archimedes heel.
Ideas for improving the Kindle: add the ability to play music, watch movies, lose the whole “reading” thing.
Every day I tell my husband how happy he is.
The Tooth Fairy is just an organ trafficker.
I will be retiring soon and living on a fixed income, which is great, because I've been on a broken one for years.
Smart kids are gifted, smart adopted kids are re-gifted.
Who has one thumb and makes poor decisions with power tools? This guy.
Me doing yoga to relieve my chronic back pain and close-to-arthritic spine? Now that's a stretch!
There's something about the Christmas spirit and how it grabs hold of me, locks me in the trunk of its car, and drives me around the woods of northern Maine for days that still mystifies and confuses me after all these years.
Beggar: Please, ma'am, I'm so hungry. May I have some food?
Woman: Sure, you can have my granola bar or my Pop-Tart. Your choice.
Beggar/Chooser: Everyone said this is impossible!
“Mommy, what’s that deep groaning sound from inside the walls, saying that being with an adequate partner is preferable to risking a lifetime of loneliness?”
“Don’t worry, Sweetie, that’s just the house settling.”
Give a man to fish he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he can hang out in the teachers' lounge.
Frugal church seeks organ donor.
Some people are afraid of artificial intelligence. I think they should be more afraid of natural stupidity.
Camouflage is great because it hides the people I already want to avoid.
A good friendship must be earned. A true, lasting friendship must be purchased.
It's super crazy that toothbrushes were only invented in 2003 and before that everyone just cleaned their teeth with old newspapers.
I realized I might be a workaholic when I started needing to put a little work in my morning coffee.
Whenever a computer program crashes and asks if you want to either report or ignore it, I always click “ignore” because I’m not a narc.
He died how he lived: absolutely slamming expired Capri Suns.
The worst part about Christmas is wrapping presents. I bought my friend the latest 2 Chainz CD as a joke and asked the lady at the store to wrap it for me. She said, “I need a beat.”
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I actually find words, tone of voice, and agitated looks really hurtful, too. Come to think of it, there are many ways to hurt me.
Is Harper really that bizarre, or are you just a judgmental prick?
They say Newton discovered gravity while quarantined during a plague. Big deal. I discovered vodka.
Happiness is that feeling you get when you take warm laundry out of the dryer. Sadness is that feeling you get when your neighbor discovers you in their house holding their warm clothes.
Holy crap! Who is that? I thought you asked if I wanted to see a dad body.
Am I okay? The short answer: no. The long answer: noooooooo.
Getting a dog is a lot like gaining a frat brother: he's always down to go out and rage, he'll support and encourage you through all your bad decisions, and at some point he'll lay in a hidden corner of your bedroom watching you bone your girlfriend.
The death penalty should be reserved only for microwaves that continue beeping even after you open the door when your food is ready.
To air is human. To forgive confusing a frequently used noun with an infrequently used verb? Divine.
— Corey Pajka, @CPajka
Hypochondria is best cured by letting people who think they're doctors treat people who think they're sick.
“I could get you fired if I had enough power!” exclaims self-righteous yet self-aware customer.
If your joke kills, does that make you guilty of man’s-laughter?
Now that my eye infection is gone, I have a nfecton.
I can be spontaneous, given enough notice.
I got my DNA test results back and am shocked to find out that Max is not my dog.
I don't know who needs to hear this right now, which is why I'm shouting it as loud as possible inside this Chipotle.
5 Easy Steps to Manage a Panic Attack from Someone Currently Having One
Step 1: AHHHHHHHHHH
Step 2: AHHHHHHHHHH
Step 3: AHHHHHHHHHH
Step 4: AHHHHHHHHHH
Step 5: The 4-7-8 Breathing Method
It is so rude to fall asleep during a meeting. It's like we get it, you “have a life,” you don't need to rub it in.
Me: Can you tell me why I hate my sister?
Therapist: No, I’m a PHYSICAL therapist.
Me: Can you beat up my sister?
Unguided Meditation Narrator: Uh, okay now open your eyes because we're lost.
The word “queue” is so dramatic. Babe, you're a letter.
Dress for the weather you want, not the weather you have.
I tried to be a butcher. It was great. I love working with animals.
We have to stop telling little girls they need to know how to cook and clean if they want to attract a good husband; it’s 2021: if you want to attract a good husband, you work on your Borat impression.
I weighed myself this morning and the scale said “used car salesman,” so I suppose it's time for me to lose a few morals.
I gave my wife a dozen roses. She never needs to know that I ate the other dozen on the way home.
My blood alcohol content is well below the legal limit. My blood spaghetti content, however…
At the end of the ceremony the priest hit the groom over the head with a two-by-four and the groom in turn kicked the bride in the stomach. We knew it was all scripted but appreciated the effort to make a boring event somewhat amusing.
Thinking about the time when I was 5 and my dad told me to give a fake name to the clown at my birthday party because “nobody needs to know your business.”
When I was a boy I asked my father, “Why do they describe life as a circle?” He turned to me and smiled warmly. “Because it's pointless, son.”
The human body is magnificent. No other animal eats as much Chex Mix as we do.
It’s not our ability to love that makes us human… it’s our ability to select all the pictures that don’t contain a car.