One-liners
13 jokes · ten picks, reshuffled daily
The one-liner is the joke with nowhere to hide. There is no story to carry it and no setup to lean on; it has to turn in one sentence, usually on the last word. That makes the good ones unusually portable: you can drop one into a conversation, a speech or a text message and be done.
This page is the clean end of the shelf, picked fresh every day. If you want a particular kind, the browse page can deal you one-liners by topic or mood.
I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down.
I used to play piano by ear, but now I use my hands.
Parallel lines have so much in common. It's a shame they'll never meet.
I'd tell you a chemistry joke, but I know I wouldn't get a reaction.
I'm so good at sleeping I can do it with my eyes closed.
I used to be a banker, but I lost interest.
I stayed up all night wondering where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
I have a joke about procrastination, but I'll tell it later.
Never trust an atom. They make up everything, and they're always splitting.
I only know 25 letters of the alphabet. I don't know y.
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