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Humor: Puns

Need something to cheer you up or serve as a study break? This guide will give you a laugh! It's also good for any research you're doing that involves humor.

WARNING

Be aware that puns are ubiquitous and can show up anywhere, not just in lists of puns. Puns may rear their ugly heads in jokes, riddles, anecdotes, and especially in limericks. If you are delving deep into humor or merely dabbling at the fringes, puns may attack from any angle.

Online Puns

Lowest Form of Humor?

Some people say that the pun is the lowest form of humor? Do you agree?

Lowest Form of Humor?
Definitely!: 1 votes (3.57%)
Yes, but I still enjoy them.: 3 votes (10.71%)
I don't know if they're the lowest, but they're pretty bad.: 2 votes (7.14%)
No, they're a legitimate form of humor: 2 votes (7.14%)
Really? Puns are the humorous sign of high intelligence!: 7 votes (25%)
No way! I'm totally a pun addict! In fact, I'm a pusher!: 13 votes (46.43%)
Total Votes: 28

In Defense of Puns

Puns

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

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Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused his dentist's Novocaine during root canal work because he wanted to transcend dental medication?

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A neutron walks into a bar. "I'd like a beer" he says. The bartender promptly serves up a beer. "How much will that be?" asks the neutron. "For you?" replies the bartender, "no charge."

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I should have been sad when the batteries in my flashlight went dead, but I was delighted.

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There was a big paddle sale at the boat store. It was quite an oar deal.

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Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak got chilly so they lit a fire in the craft, but it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

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There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass.'

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Iron man = Fe-male?

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After it was all over and Noah lowered the ramp of the ark for all the animals to leave, he told the animals to "go forth and multiply."

All the animals left except two snakes who lay quietly in the corner of the ark.

"Why can’t you go forth and multiply?" demanded Noah.

"We can’t," answered the snakes. "We’re adders."

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To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

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After hearing the case of the woman who folded her clothes wrong, the jury had no choice but to hanger.

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Did you hear about the guy who got hit in the head with a can of soda? He was lucky it was a soft drink.

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The store keeps calling me to come back and buy more bedroom furniture, but all I really wanted was one night stand.

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A new type of broom has just been developed, and it is sweeping the nation!

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Mathematicians were very puzzled over the fact that they could not apply a mathematical formula to Al Gore's dance style. They were just not able to derive the Al Gore Rhythm.

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Smaller babies may be delivered by stork but the heavier ones need a crane.

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I don't know where some old sayings come from. For example, I once saw a bowl in a china shop, and it wasn't causing any trouble. It was just sitting there.

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I once broke wind on an elevator. Someone said, "That is wrong on so many levels."

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Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.

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The drunk was complaining about inflation. He said, "With the price of alcohol going up, I can barley afford to buy my beer."

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I was driving my Geo to the liquor store to buy fortified wine. I didn't care what brand. I was looking for any port in a Storm.

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