Bedtime jokes
4 jokes · ten picks, reshuffled daily
The last joke of the day should not wind anyone up. These are the soft ones: animals, bedtime itself, the moon, the kind of gentle silliness that ends in a yawn instead of a shriek. They are short enough to tell with the light already off and kind enough that nobody goes to sleep as the butt of the joke.
They also work as the reward at the end of the story, or the thing you trade for the last glass of water.
What do you call a sleeping dinosaur? A dino-snore.
I'm so good at sleeping I can do it with my eyes closed.
I stayed up all night wondering where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
A little boy asks his dad, "Where do clouds come from?" Dad says, "They're made of water that rises up from the sea." The boy thinks about this. "Then why aren't they salty?" Dad says, "Go and ask your mother."
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