Humor


A few general sources of funnies and alleged funnies

Best Humor of All Time

The Humor Page

Like, humor, and stuff


Truth is (significantly) funnier than fiction...

Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!

Urban Legends Reference Pages

The Darwin Awards

Funny newspaper headlines

Funny Newspaper Headlines

Things People Said

English around the world

Actual Statements found on Insurance Forms

Resume Quotations

Words Without Thought

Church Bulletin Quotations

Classified Ads

Doctors From Hell

Restaurants

"English" Signs from Around the World

Terrible Translation -- Signs of the Times

Why It's Confusing To Travel

Travel humor

Japanese Food Packaging

'Bite the Wax Tadpole' and Other International Marketing Blunders

Crosscultural bloopers

Very Strange Translations

The Chinese Movie Title List

Western cinema, China style

Martial Arts Movies Subtitles

The Language Barrier

Exam Question Answers

Warning Labels

Annual M-LAW Wacky Warning Label Contest
...includes photos, scans, and previous years' entries

Weird Package Instructions

Anecdotes of Stupidity

Gene Pool

Funny headlines
...this page has scans of the headlines in question

Funny Actual Newspaper Headlines
...this page lists the headlines' sources

News Reports

Funny signs
...photographs of unintentionally humorous signage

Courtroom Bloopers

Courtroom Bloopers

Courtroom Bloopers

Courtroom Bloopers

Courtroom Bloopers

The World According to Student Bloopers
...world history as compiled from high school exams

Kids' science theories

Visionaries
...such as the head of IBM, who said "I think there's a world market for about five computers"...

Predictions from the past
...more of the same

Actual Calls and Letters to Internet Technical Support

Tech Calls
...RealAudio samples of actual calls

Tech Support Calls

Tech Tales

Computer Stupidities

The Weekly World News
...well, sure, it's not meant to be funny...(and I'm not quite sure how well it fits within this "reality" genre)


Skewed history

Hello Cleveland, err, Dallas!
...Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby jamming in Dallas, '63

The Declaration Revised
...a critique of the Declaration of Independence from the Court of King George III


Cartoons and comics

Unfortunately, three of my all-time favorites -- "Bloom County," "Calvin and Hobbes," and "The Far Side" (Gary Larson is the latter-day patron saint of scientists) are long-since defunct, though they live on in various incarnations and a few people have since created strips that approach these classics' magnificence...

Calvin and Hobbes

The Calvin and Hobbes Jumpstation

Calvin and Hobbes' Magical World

Bloom County Zone -- The Official Unofficial Bloom County and Outland Resource

The Official Berkeley Breathed Website
...the man behind the classic '80s strip, Bloom County, and the later Outland"

Bloom County and Outland

Gary Larson's "The Far Side"

Foxtrot

Get Fuzzy

Sherman's Lagoon

The Dilbert Zone

Garfield On-Line

The Official Peanuts Website


Dave Barry

Dave Barry's columns
...from the Miami Herald

Dave Barry
...a site from his book publisher, Random House, that focuses on his latest books (with links to previous masterworks)


Television and the movies

Fawlty Towers

A Horror Movie Character's Survival Guide

Twenty-five Things I Learned From Watching TV & Movies

Late Show Top Ten Archive
...all of David Letterman's Top-Ten Lists since moving to CBS in 1993

Titanic -- The Alternative Script

The Jihad To Destroy Barney on the Worldwide Web


Funny dudes

The Billy Connolly Homepage
...known for decades to audiences outside the US, Billy's one of the funniest storytellers out there (way out there) and, like Robin Williams, has also proven himself a fine actor

Billy Connolly -- God or what?

A Tribute to Robin Williams

The Ultimate Robin Williams Website

The Andy Kaufman Home Page
...a somewhat off-center genius who may have wandered far across the line distinguishing reality and insanity at times, Andy was a big-time Elvis fan and thusly more than all right by me (and, like Elvis, rumors of Andy's faked death continue to surface)

Andy Kaufman -- A Tribute

Steve Martin

Steve Martin Online


Computer-generated weirdness

Shakespearean insults
...generated randomlyto produce zingers such as "Thou loggerheaded fly-bitten puttock."

Shakespearean Insulter
...similar, but this one also mixes in real insults lifted from the Bard's plays

Random Elizabethan Curse Generator
...another along the same lines, though I'm not sure that Shakespeare or Queen Elizabeth would actually have called anyone a "sottish, knotty-pated hedge-pig."

The Surrealist Compliment Generator
...by way of example, "An ocean-going tin of crosseyed mussels could never match the melodious burblings of your sister's husband"...

Apology note generator
...this could be particularly handy if you overuse the insult generators above...

The automatic complaint-letter generator

Country song generator
For example:

Her rabbi said I'd stay with her forever
She said to me there was no other guy
But who'd have thought she'd blast off in my Edsel
I guess I was too smashed to say goodbye.

This is how they do it in Nashville, these days...

Really.

I, Rearrangement Servant
(or "Internet Anagram Server")...make your own anagrams!

Make Your Own Conspiracy Theory


Word play

Funny puns

Classic oxymorons

Anagram Hall of Fame


Deepish thoughts

Steven Wright Humor

Steven Wright Quotes

Steven Wright Jokes

Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy

Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy


Religion, medicine, and those wacky scientists

Biblical Top Ten (and other) Lists

A Short Guide to Comparative Religions
...It happens, as Forrest Gump knew all too well

Jesus Christ Superstore
...actually, I'm not sure if this is real or a joke, but they specialize in some nifty action figures based on the world's religions

Medical humor

Eric Schulman's Science Humor

Science Comedy


Lists

150 things not to do or say at or for your Thesis Defense
...I didn't do most of them, though I thought about the Greek Chorus

98 ways to order a pizza


Poultry (paltry?) humor

A Duck's Memoirs

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
...answered by great philosophers and other noted figures

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
...more along the same lines

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
...yet another one! Apparently, this is just one of those questions.

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
...takes the old question further than I thought possible

Celebriducks for the Connoisseur
...an actual business, selling rubber duckies that have celebrities' faces (James Brown included)


Political Incorrectness (and other biting satire)

Dancing Bush

The "Quotable" George W. Bush

The English Patient

Political Strikes

Quayle Quotes
...people voted for him? I guess that at least puts him ahead of Bush II...

Dan Quayle Quotes

Ronald Reagan's Demented Mediaverse
...a collection of bloopers and scary insights from the Gipper

Poking Phun at Politicians

Bartcop's political humor

Jerry Falwell's History of America

The Onion
..."America's Finest News Source"

Modern Humorist

The New York Slime


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