‘humor’ directory
- See Also
- Gwern
- “‘It’s So Beautiful’ § Being Eaten”, Gwern & Pro 2026
- “‘It’s So Beautiful’ § Burnt”, Gwern 2026
- “‘It’s So Beautiful’ § Shooting Star”, Gwern & Gemini-3-pro-preview 2026
- “On the Internet, Everyone Knows You’re a Dog!”, Gwern 2026
- “Cool, Cool, Cool”, Gwern 2026
- “Seed Round”, Gwern & Gemini-3-pro-preview 2026
- “I’d Show All My Online Friends, but I Now Worry They Wouldn’t Get It”, Gwern 2026
- “Well, Well... Lookit Mister Fancy Pants Here”, Gwern 2026
- “Claude-2: Bats With Baby Faces”, Claude-2 et al 2023
- “No Soliciting”, Gwern 2025
- “Research vs Development”, Gwern & Pro 2025
- “[NYC Tibetan Buddhism Art Shop Warning against Shoplifting]”, Gwern 2025
- “He Will Be Baked Soon, Alhamdulillah”, Gwern 2025
- “[Photo of Buddhist Warning against Shoplifting in Salem, Massachusetts]”, Gwern 2025
- “I Can Fix Him”, Gwern 2025
- “The First Weighted Blanket”, Gwern 2025
- “[GPT-5 Free Association Experiment for Autonomous Image Generation]”, Gwern & GPT-5 2025
- “The Owl of Minerva Flies at Dusk, But The Post Office Closes at 5”, GPT-5 & Gwern 2025
- “Explain Free Energy Minimization Right Now, You Piece of S—T!”, Gwern & GPT-5 2025
- “‘Carthago Delenda Est.’ ‘Sir, This Is a Wendy’s.’”, Gwern 2025
- “Bone Appetite!”, Gwern 2025
- “Suppressing The Urge To Correct Others: ‘Be Still, My Devil Hand!’”, Gwern 2025
- “Area Man Angry AI Not Silver Bullet”, Gwern et al 2025
- “Lowercase-I Dropcat Butt Experiment”, Gwern 2025
- “SPQR vs Dot-Com”, Gwern 2024
- “Epigrams”, Gwern 2014
- “Startup Ideas”, Gwern 2017
- “What A Decade in AI It’s Been!”, Gwern 2022
- “Paperclip Alignment Chart”, Gwern 2023
- “Fuzz Testing”, Gwern 2018
- “It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World”, Gwern 2022
- “GPT-3 Creative Fiction”, Gwern 2020
- “Dinosaur Comics Comics”, Gwern 2011
- Links
- “Death’s Dating Problems”, Gwern 2026
- “The Dilbert Afterlife: 68 Years of Highly Defective People [Scott Adams Obituary]”, Alexander 2026
- “SOTA On Bay Area House Party”, Alexander 2026
- “From Whitman to Instagram With Claude: How I Made Claude Write Parodies of Famous Elegiac Poems Imitating Rupi Kaur”, Bohdan 2026
- “Why One Small American Town Won’t Stop Stoning Its Residents to Death”, Anonymous 2025
- “Forecats Is a Home Assistant Integration That Takes Pictures of Your Cat(S) and Forecast Data, and Then Uses Gemini’s Nano Banana Image Generation Model to Create and Weather-Themed Pictures of Your Cats. I Display These Pictures on a Spectra 6 E-Ink Screen”, Ward-Bond 2025
- “Claude-4.5-Opus Is Funny”, Algon 2025
- “Buoyancy [Selection Bias]”, Oglaf 2025
- “Salem Satanic Temple’s Good Neighbors Award”, Gwern 2025
- “Getting Things Done”, Gurewitch 2025
- “Square Theory [Commutative Diagram Double-Entendres]”, Aaronson 2025
- “The Grugbrained CEO”, Rodriques 2025
- “Generating the Funniest Joke With RL (According to GPT-4.1)”, agg 2025
- “How to Get a Common Lisp Job In 2055”, Carlos 2025
- “OpenAI O1-Pro Deep Research Generated Age of Empires 2 [& WH40k Etc.] Playthroughs”, Simfish 2025
- “A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon”, Barber 2025
- “Thnickels—Thick Coins”, Nichols 2025
- “Shoggoth Mini”
- “Need I Remind That You Ideal Conditions Do Not Exist and Will Never Happen?”, bpdohwhatajoy 2024
- “Survival without Dignity”, L 2024
- “The Later Years of Douglas Adams”
- “Fonts Hanging Out”, Cordova 2024
- “[On Gricean Maxims]”, Munroe 2024
- “Portland District 2024 Cat Calendar”, Henon 2024
- “The 2024 Lyttle Lytton Contest Winners”
- “Paperclip Alignment Chart (Alternate)”, saturn2 2023
- “ChatGPT Is Fun, but It Is Not Funny! Humor Is Still Challenging Large Language Models”, Jentzsch & Kersting 2023
- “How I, a Non-Developer, Read the Tutorial You, a Developer, Wrote for Me, a Beginner”, Mueller 2023
- “Dril Is Everyone. More Specifically, He’s a Guy Named Paul”
- “Witscript 3: A Hybrid AI System for Improvising Jokes in a Conversation”, Toplyn 2023
- “R. Crumb Means Some Offense: Even from His Refuge in France, the Comics Artist Still Makes America’s Pulse Race”, Miller 2022
- “Nymph Piss and Gravy Orgies: Local and Global Contrast Effects in Relational Humor”, Siew et al 2022
- “Jurassic Park but With a Cat [T-Rex Night Scene]”, OwlKitty 2021
- Outsideness @ "2020-12-02"
- “‘Our Schmuck’: Russian Folklore about American Elections”, Arkhipova et al 2020
- “Emo / Emo Girl X Country Boy”, Tyronestash 2020
- “The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic: National Economies Collapse; Species Go Extinct; Political Movements Rise and Fizzle. But—Somehow, for Some Reason—Weird Al Keeps Rocking”, Anderson 2020
- “AI Dungeon 2: My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights”, Walton 2019
- “The Rotten Library Archives”, Rotten.com 2019
- “How a Literary Prank Convinced Germany That ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Was Real: A 1963 Book Purported to Prove That the Siblings Were Murderous Bakers”, Todorov 2019
- “Diggy Diggy Hole”, Rose 2019
- “Early Titanic Jokes: A Disaster for the Theory of Disaster Jokes?”, Chovanec 2019
- “Wriggly, Squiffy, Lummox, and Boobs: What Makes Some Words Funny?”, Westbury & Hollis 2019
- “Pokémon Detective Pikachu: Mr. Mime Interrogation Scene”, Letterman 2019
- “Jurassic Park: Starring My Cat [Velociraptors Kitchen Scene]”, OwlKitty 2018
- “Analysis and Qualitative Effects of Large Breasts on Aerodynamic Performance and Wake of a Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Character”, Rabino 2018
- “Unparalleled Misalignments [Quadruple Entendres]”, Heicklen 2018
- “Humor Norms for 4,997 English Words”, Engelthaler & Hills 2018
- “15+ Ways a Venture Capitalist Says ‘No’”, Allen 2017
- “DeepTingle”, Khalifa et al 2017
- “Decoding Seinfeld’s Jewishness”, Tanny 2016
- “Nature’s Balance #5 [The Cat Evolutionary Strategy]”, Pereira 2016
- “The Musician’s Day [Memoirs of an Amnesiac]”, Satie 2016
- Unsong, Alexander 2015
- “Unsong § Interlude ט: The General Assembly”, Alexander 2015
- “Pricks: Pilot”, Ross 2015
- “Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design”, Akin 2014
- “Mission Statement”, Yankovic 2014
- “On the Rheology of Cats”, Fardin 2014
- “‘Twitch Plays Pokemon’ Defeats Gary”, Kiyokon 2014
- “Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found”, Ortberg 2013
- “St Martin’s Four Wishes”, Dubin 2013
- “The Effects of Relationship Context and Modality on Ratings of Funniness”, Cowan & Little 2013
- “Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading With Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps”, Mason 2012
- “The Floppy Toast”, Buttersafe 2012
- “Reader Question #16: The Golden Retriever/Kwisatz Haderach of Love”, JenniferP 2011
- “A Brief History Of Paintball In Moscow”, Pelevin 2011
- “Smart, Qualified People Behind The Scenes Keeping America Safe: ‘We Don’t Exist’”, Onion 2010
- “I’m Comic Sans, Asshole [Short Imagined Monologues]”, Lacher 2010
- “The Detour”, Buttersafe 2008
- “Cat Vs Printer”, gamook19 2008
- “Possible Girls”, Sinhababu 2008
- “The Daily Telegraph Motto: ‘Was, Is, and Will Be’”, Telegraph 2008
- “A Very Surreal Day”, Yudkowsky 2007
- “A Good List”, Leithauser 2006
- “The Effects of Caffeine, Dextroamphetamine, and Modafinil on Humor Appreciation During Sleep Deprivation”, Killgore et al 2006
- “Why Can’t Anyone Tell I’m Wearing This Business Suit Ironically?”, Frankovitch 2005
- “No Justice, No Foul: Everything You Didn’t Know That You Were Afraid To Know About The Supreme Court”, Stallard 2004
- “Hacker Humor”, Raymond 2003
- The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings, Wikia 2003
- “Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids”, Onion 2002
- “True Porn Clerk Stories”, Davis 2002
- “Let There Be Light!”, Feuer 2001
- US Patent #1, Ernest 2001
- “Introduction to Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985–1995”, Watterson 2001
- “Artist / Blank White Canvas [Credit Card] Commercial”, Visa 2000
- “
psDooM: Doom for Sysadmins (A Process Monitor and Manager for Unix Systems)”, Koppenhofer 2000 - “You Dumb Babies! How Raising the Rugrats Children Became As Difficult As the Real Thing”, Swartz 1998
- “Laws of Xmas [Have You Ever Wondered What Xmas Would Be like If It Were a Jewish Holiday?…]”, Miller & Miller 1998
- “Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas § Bat Country”, Thompson 1998
- “[On Perverse Incentives in Programming]”, Adams 1995
- “The Perception of Rhythm in Language”, Cutler 1994
- “Urban Elites in Search of a Culture: The Brussels Snow Festival of 1511”, Pleij 1990
- “Stranger in Parodies: Weird Al and the Law of Musical Satire”, Sanders & Gordon 1990
- “Rule Enforcement Without Visible Means: Christmas Gift Giving in Middletown”, Caplow 1984
- “The Chemist in Allegory: Augustus Vernon Harcourt and the White Knight”, King & Christine 1983
- “Epigrams on Programming”, Perlis 1982
- “Decoding Middletown’s Easter Bunny: A Study in American Iconography”, Caplow & Williamson 1980
- “[Dark Star (1974): Bomb-#20 Learns a Little Cartesian Epistemology]”, Carpenter 1974
- “Been A Long, Long Time”, Lafferty 1970
- “An Atomist Illustration In Aristotle”, West 1969
- “Yes, But Can the Steam Engine Do This? [Invention of Sandwiches]”, Allen 1966
- “Inside Intourist: How to Break Even (Or Almost) in the Soviet Union”, Heinlein 1960
- “The Great Automatic Grammatizator”, Dahl 1953
- “The Art of Classical Swearing”, Echols 1951
- “Investigations of a Dog”, Kafka et al 1922
- The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten, Herford 1904
- “How The Helpmate Of Blue-Beard Made Free With A Door”, Carryl 1902
- “Cannibalism in the Cars”, Twain 1868
- “Breakfast”, Lamb 1810
- “Rootless Root”
- “Council of Andrews Aims to Unite All Who Bear the Greek Root Name of Andreas”, Andrews 2026
- “Stargate Physics 101”
- “PaLM § Figure 19: [Explaining a Joke / Inference Chaining] Each ‘Input” Was Independently Prepended With the Same 2-Shot Exemplar Shown at the Top, and “Model Output’ Shows the Greedy Decoding Output of PaLM 540B. The Two Exemplar Jokes Are Known Jokes (Explanations Written by Authors), While All Evaluated Jokes Were Written by the Authors. Of Course, These Jokes Do Share Abstract Premises With Existing Jokes (Wordplay, Reliability, Humorous Analogies, Reversal-Of-Expectations). The Inference Chaining Examples Were Also Written by the Authors.”
- “Bahfest”
- “Noodle Incident”, Calvin & Wiki 2026
- “Compound Pejoratives on Reddit: from ‘Buttface’ to ‘Wankpuffin’”
- “The Artist Yoshitoshi, Whose Usual Specialty Was Serious Depictions of Historic Warriors, Has Envisioned the Eternal War between Cats and Mice As a Grand Epic of Battling Samurai Clans in 6 Small, Humorous Vignettes. The Mice Often Defeat the Cats by Such Means As Frightening Them With a Large Toy Dog, Trapping Them in Paper Snack Bags, or Stealing Food While the Cat on Watch Dozes Off.”
- “The Tomorrow Man”
- “Lil Werner”
- “Rupert And Hubert”
- “Secular Heaven”
- “Epilogue”
- “Trouble In Memphis”
- “Girl Vs Bear”
- “Traversing The Luminiferous Aether”
- “Summer Dream Job”
- “Dungeons And Discourse”
- “Hob #20 - Copan”
- “Hob #26 - Epilogue”
- “Advanced Dungeons & Discourse”
- “Exorcising Laplace's Demon”
- “42 Essential 3rd Act Twists”
- “A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism”
- “Fabulous Prizes”
- “You'Re A Good Man, Charlie Darwin”
- “The Sleepwalkers”
- “Caveman Science Fiction”, Diaz 2026
- “Lantern Season”
- “The Process”
- “Dark Science #01 - The Collected Works of Shakespeare: the Movie”
- “Dark Science #02 - The Complexities of Finance”
- “Dark Science #09 - Insufficient Credibility”
- “Dark Science #49 - Exode”
- “Drachenfutter [‘Dragon-Food’: Gift for Angry Wives]”
- “Windfucker”
- “How I Did Relay Quine”
- The Museum of Hoaxes
- “Subways Are For Sleeping (1962) § Fake Critic Reviews”
- “Is the Great Attractor a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?”
- “Kingdom of Kyle”
- “Hi, Bell Fen!”
- “Using GPT-3 to Explain Jokes”
- “Sparse Autoencoders for Meme Retrieval”
- “Divine Comedy: Lucian Versus The Gods”
- “The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi”
- “Cooking Up ‘Mehran’s Steak House’”, Jalali 2026
- “G.K. Chesterton On AI Risk”
- “Samsara”
- “My First Wave Meditation Grandma: So Great to Hear You’ve Gotten into That Bay Area Dharma Scene! How Are Those Old Hippies?…”, Eaton 2026
- “Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found”
- “6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling”
- “Millions and Millions Dead”
- “Study: Wolf Attacks Still Leading Cause Of Death In US”
- “Blasphemail Postage Stamps”, Wask 2026
- “Sealed Fate Candy Packets”, Wask 2026
- “If All Stories Were Written like Science Fiction Stories”
- “BMJ Christmas Issue”
- Fontemon
- “Strange Planet (Instagram)”, Pyle 2026
- “Too Busy to Think about Life”
- “Mike Lacher”
- The Tao of Programming
- “Reddit”
- “マナーポスター (迷惑図絵) [Train Etiquette]”, 西武鉄道 2026
- “AAAAH”, Weinersmith 2026
- “A Long-Lost Space Age Satire about What It Means to Be a Jew from One of Science Fiction’s Greatest Humorists”
- “God Answers Prayers Of Paralyzed Little Boy (‘No’)”, Onion 2026
- “End of Evangelion In 5 Minutes (Live Action) (Sweded)—Mega64”
- “I Think I’m a Clone Now”
- “My Deer Friend Nokotan § Torako’s Dance”
- “Dare To Be Stupid”, Yankovic 2026
- matttomic
- poetclare
- “Duty Calls”, Munroe 2026
- “Bag Check”, Munroe 2026
- Sort By Magic
- Wikipedia (27)
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“‘It’s So Beautiful’ § Being Eaten”, Gwern & Pro 2026
“‘It’s So Beautiful’ § Burnt”, Gwern 2026
“‘It’s So Beautiful’ § Shooting Star”, Gwern & Gemini-3-pro-preview 2026
“On the Internet, Everyone Knows You’re a Dog!”, Gwern 2026
“Cool, Cool, Cool”, Gwern 2026
“Seed Round”, Gwern & Gemini-3-pro-preview 2026
“I’d Show All My Online Friends, but I Now Worry They Wouldn’t Get It”, Gwern 2026
I’d show all my online friends, but I now worry they wouldn’t get it
“Well, Well... Lookit Mister Fancy Pants Here”, Gwern 2026
“Claude-2: Bats With Baby Faces”, Claude-2 et al 2023
“No Soliciting”, Gwern 2025
“Research vs Development”, Gwern & Pro 2025
“[NYC Tibetan Buddhism Art Shop Warning against Shoplifting]”, Gwern 2025
![[NYC Tibetan Buddhism art shop warning against shoplifting]](/doc/philosophy/religion/2025-10-04-gwern-nyc-tibetanbuddhismshop-frontdoorwarningagainstshoplifting.jpg){kind=link}
“He Will Be Baked Soon, Alhamdulillah”, Gwern 2025
“[Photo of Buddhist Warning against Shoplifting in Salem, Massachusetts]”, Gwern 2025
[Photo of Buddhist warning against shoplifting in Salem, Massachusetts]
![[Photo of Buddhist warning against shoplifting in Salem, Massachusetts]](/doc/philosophy/religion/2025-09-24-salem-tibetanbuddhismshop-frontdoorwarningagainstshoplifting.jpg){kind=link}
“I Can Fix Him”, Gwern 2025
“The First Weighted Blanket”, Gwern 2025
“[GPT-5 Free Association Experiment for Autonomous Image Generation]”, Gwern & GPT-5 2025
[GPT-5 free association experiment for autonomous image generation]
![[GPT-5 free association experiment for autonomous image generation]](/doc/ai/nn/transformer/gpt/dall-e/4o/2025-08-23-gwern-gpt5-doge-notreatsuntilbardssingofyoubutisits-freeassociationdemo.png){kind=link}
“The Owl of Minerva Flies at Dusk, But The Post Office Closes at 5”, GPT-5 & Gwern 2025
The Owl of Minerva Flies at Dusk, But The Post Office Closes at 5
“Explain Free Energy Minimization Right Now, You Piece of S—T!”, Gwern & GPT-5 2025
Explain Free Energy Minimization Right Now, You Piece of S—t!
“‘Carthago Delenda Est.’ ‘Sir, This Is a Wendy’s.’”, Gwern 2025
“Bone Appetite!”, Gwern 2025
“Suppressing The Urge To Correct Others: ‘Be Still, My Devil Hand!’”, Gwern 2025
Suppressing The Urge To Correct Others: ‘Be Still, My Devil Hand!’
“Area Man Angry AI Not Silver Bullet”, Gwern et al 2025
“Lowercase-I Dropcat Butt Experiment”, Gwern 2025
“SPQR vs Dot-Com”, Gwern 2024
“Epigrams”, Gwern 2014
“Startup Ideas”, Gwern 2017
“What A Decade in AI It’s Been!”, Gwern 2022
“Paperclip Alignment Chart”, Gwern 2023
“Fuzz Testing”, Gwern 2018
“It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World”, Gwern 2022
“GPT-3 Creative Fiction”, Gwern 2020
“Dinosaur Comics Comics”, Gwern 2011
Links
“Death’s Dating Problems”, Gwern 2026
“The Dilbert Afterlife: 68 Years of Highly Defective People [Scott Adams Obituary]”, Alexander 2026
The Dilbert Afterlife: 68 years of highly defective people [Scott Adams obituary]
“SOTA On Bay Area House Party”, Alexander 2026
“From Whitman to Instagram With Claude: How I Made Claude Write Parodies of Famous Elegiac Poems Imitating Rupi Kaur”, Bohdan 2026
“Why One Small American Town Won’t Stop Stoning Its Residents to Death”, Anonymous 2025
Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death
“Forecats Is a Home Assistant Integration That Takes Pictures of Your Cat(S) and Forecast Data, and Then Uses Gemini’s Nano Banana Image Generation Model to Create and Weather-Themed Pictures of Your Cats. I Display These Pictures on a Spectra 6 E-Ink Screen”, Ward-Bond 2025
“Claude-4.5-Opus Is Funny”, Algon 2025
“Buoyancy [Selection Bias]”, Oglaf 2025
“Salem Satanic Temple’s Good Neighbors Award”, Gwern 2025
“Getting Things Done”, Gurewitch 2025
“Square Theory [Commutative Diagram Double-Entendres]”, Aaronson 2025
“The Grugbrained CEO”, Rodriques 2025
“Generating the Funniest Joke With RL (According to GPT-4.1)”, agg 2025
“How to Get a Common Lisp Job In 2055”, Carlos 2025
“OpenAI O1-Pro Deep Research Generated Age of Empires 2 [& WH40k Etc.] Playthroughs”, Simfish 2025
OpenAI o1-pro Deep Research generated Age of Empires 2 [& WH40k etc.] playthroughs
“A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon”, Barber 2025
“Thnickels—Thick Coins”, Nichols 2025
“Shoggoth Mini”
“Need I Remind That You Ideal Conditions Do Not Exist and Will Never Happen?”, bpdohwhatajoy 2024
Need I Remind That You Ideal Conditions Do Not Exist and Will Never Happen?
“Survival without Dignity”, L 2024
“The Later Years of Douglas Adams”
“Fonts Hanging Out”, Cordova 2024
“[On Gricean Maxims]”, Munroe 2024
View External Link:
“Portland District 2024 Cat Calendar”, Henon 2024
“The 2024 Lyttle Lytton Contest Winners”
“Paperclip Alignment Chart (Alternate)”, saturn2 2023
“ChatGPT Is Fun, but It Is Not Funny! Humor Is Still Challenging Large Language Models”, Jentzsch & Kersting 2023
ChatGPT is fun, but it is not funny! Humor is still challenging Large Language Models
“How I, a Non-Developer, Read the Tutorial You, a Developer, Wrote for Me, a Beginner”, Mueller 2023
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner
“Dril Is Everyone. More Specifically, He’s a Guy Named Paul”
“Witscript 3: A Hybrid AI System for Improvising Jokes in a Conversation”, Toplyn 2023
Witscript 3: A Hybrid AI System for Improvising Jokes in a Conversation
“R. Crumb Means Some Offense: Even from His Refuge in France, the Comics Artist Still Makes America’s Pulse Race”, Miller 2022
“Nymph Piss and Gravy Orgies: Local and Global Contrast Effects in Relational Humor”, Siew et al 2022
Nymph Piss and Gravy Orgies: Local and Global Contrast Effects in Relational Humor
“Jurassic Park but With a Cat [T-Rex Night Scene]”, OwlKitty 2021
Outsideness @ "2020-12-02"
“‘Our Schmuck’: Russian Folklore about American Elections”, Arkhipova et al 2020
“Emo / Emo Girl X Country Boy”, Tyronestash 2020
“The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic: National Economies Collapse; Species Go Extinct; Political Movements Rise and Fizzle. But—Somehow, for Some Reason—Weird Al Keeps Rocking”, Anderson 2020
“AI Dungeon 2: My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights”, Walton 2019
AI Dungeon 2: My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights
“The Rotten Library Archives”, Rotten.com 2019
“How a Literary Prank Convinced Germany That ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Was Real: A 1963 Book Purported to Prove That the Siblings Were Murderous Bakers”, Todorov 2019
“Diggy Diggy Hole”, Rose 2019
“Early Titanic Jokes: A Disaster for the Theory of Disaster Jokes?”, Chovanec 2019
Early Titanic Jokes: A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes?
“Wriggly, Squiffy, Lummox, and Boobs: What Makes Some Words Funny?”, Westbury & Hollis 2019
Wriggly, Squiffy, Lummox, and Boobs: What Makes Some Words Funny?
“Pokémon Detective Pikachu: Mr. Mime Interrogation Scene”, Letterman 2019
“Jurassic Park: Starring My Cat [Velociraptors Kitchen Scene]”, OwlKitty 2018
Jurassic Park: Starring my cat [Velociraptors kitchen scene]
“Analysis and Qualitative Effects of Large Breasts on Aerodynamic Performance and Wake of a Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Character”, Rabino 2018
“Unparalleled Misalignments [Quadruple Entendres]”, Heicklen 2018
“Humor Norms for 4,997 English Words”, Engelthaler & Hills 2018
“15+ Ways a Venture Capitalist Says ‘No’”, Allen 2017
“DeepTingle”, Khalifa et al 2017
“Decoding Seinfeld’s Jewishness”, Tanny 2016
“Nature’s Balance #5 [The Cat Evolutionary Strategy]”, Pereira 2016
![Nature’s Balance #5 [the cat evolutionary strategy]](/doc/cat/psychology/2016-09-08-josuepereira-nerfnow-naturesbalance-5-2979-catcharismagimmickbuild.png){kind=link}
“The Musician’s Day [Memoirs of an Amnesiac]”, Satie 2016
Unsong, Alexander 2015
“Unsong § Interlude ט: The General Assembly”, Alexander 2015
Unsong § Interlude ט: The General Assembly
View External Link:
https://unsongbook.com/interlude-%D7%98-the-general-assembly/
“Pricks: Pilot”, Ross 2015
View PDF:
“Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design”, Akin 2014
“Mission Statement”, Yankovic 2014
“On the Rheology of Cats”, Fardin 2014
View PDF:
“‘Twitch Plays Pokemon’ Defeats Gary”, Kiyokon 2014
“Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found”, Ortberg 2013
“St Martin’s Four Wishes”, Dubin 2013
“The Effects of Relationship Context and Modality on Ratings of Funniness”, Cowan & Little 2013
The effects of relationship context and modality on ratings of funniness
“Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading With Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps”, Mason 2012
Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading with Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps
“The Floppy Toast”, Buttersafe 2012
“Reader Question #16: The Golden Retriever/Kwisatz Haderach of Love”, JenniferP 2011
Reader Question #16: The Golden Retriever/Kwisatz Haderach of Love
“A Brief History Of Paintball In Moscow”, Pelevin 2011
“Smart, Qualified People Behind The Scenes Keeping America Safe: ‘We Don’t Exist’”, Onion 2010
Smart, Qualified People Behind The Scenes Keeping America Safe: ‘We Don’t Exist’
“I’m Comic Sans, Asshole [Short Imagined Monologues]”, Lacher 2010
“The Detour”, Buttersafe 2008
“Cat Vs Printer”, gamook19 2008
“Possible Girls”, Sinhababu 2008
“The Daily Telegraph Motto: ‘Was, Is, and Will Be’”, Telegraph 2008
“A Very Surreal Day”, Yudkowsky 2007
“A Good List”, Leithauser 2006
“The Effects of Caffeine, Dextroamphetamine, and Modafinil on Humor Appreciation During Sleep Deprivation”, Killgore et al 2006
“Why Can’t Anyone Tell I’m Wearing This Business Suit Ironically?”, Frankovitch 2005
Why Can’t Anyone Tell I’m Wearing This Business Suit Ironically?
“No Justice, No Foul: Everything You Didn’t Know That You Were Afraid To Know About The Supreme Court”, Stallard 2004
No Justice, No Foul: Everything You Didn’t Know That You Were Afraid To Know About The Supreme Court :
View PDF:
“Hacker Humor”, Raymond 2003
The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings, Wikia 2003
“Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids”, Onion 2002
Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids
“True Porn Clerk Stories”, Davis 2002
View PDF:
“Let There Be Light!”, Feuer 2001
US Patent #1, Ernest 2001
“Introduction to Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985–1995”, Watterson 2001
“Artist / Blank White Canvas [Credit Card] Commercial”, Visa 2000
“psDooM: Doom for Sysadmins (A Process Monitor and Manager for Unix Systems)”, Koppenhofer 2000
psDooM: Doom for Sysadmins (a process monitor and manager for Unix systems)
“You Dumb Babies! How Raising the Rugrats Children Became As Difficult As the Real Thing”, Swartz 1998
You Dumb Babies! How raising the Rugrats children became as difficult as the real thing :
View PDF:
“Laws of Xmas [Have You Ever Wondered What Xmas Would Be like If It Were a Jewish Holiday?…]”, Miller & Miller 1998
Laws of Xmas [Have you ever wondered what Xmas would be like if it were a Jewish Holiday?…]
“Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas § Bat Country”, Thompson 1998
“[On Perverse Incentives in Programming]”, Adams 1995
![[On perverse incentives in programming]](/doc/economics/mechanism-design/1995-11-13-scottadams-dilbert-payingbugbountiesperverseincentives.jpg){kind=link}
“The Perception of Rhythm in Language”, Cutler 1994
“Urban Elites in Search of a Culture: The Brussels Snow Festival of 1511”, Pleij 1990
Urban Elites in Search of a Culture: The Brussels Snow Festival of 1511 :
View PDF:
“Stranger in Parodies: Weird Al and the Law of Musical Satire”, Sanders & Gordon 1990
Stranger in Parodies: Weird Al and the Law of Musical Satire
“Rule Enforcement Without Visible Means: Christmas Gift Giving in Middletown”, Caplow 1984
Rule Enforcement Without Visible Means: Christmas Gift Giving in Middletown
“The Chemist in Allegory: Augustus Vernon Harcourt and the White Knight”, King & Christine 1983
The chemist in allegory: Augustus Vernon Harcourt and the white knight
“Epigrams on Programming”, Perlis 1982
“Decoding Middletown’s Easter Bunny: A Study in American Iconography”, Caplow & Williamson 1980
Decoding Middletown’s Easter bunny: A study in American iconography
“[Dark Star (1974): Bomb-#20 Learns a Little Cartesian Epistemology]”, Carpenter 1974
[Dark Star (1974): Bomb-#20 learns a little Cartesian epistemology]
“Been A Long, Long Time”, Lafferty 1970
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“An Atomist Illustration In Aristotle”, West 1969
“Yes, But Can the Steam Engine Do This? [Invention of Sandwiches]”, Allen 1966
Yes, But Can the Steam Engine Do This? [invention of sandwiches]
“Inside Intourist: How to Break Even (Or Almost) in the Soviet Union”, Heinlein 1960
Inside Intourist: How to Break Even (or Almost) in the Soviet Union
“The Great Automatic Grammatizator”, Dahl 1953
“The Art of Classical Swearing”, Echols 1951
“Investigations of a Dog”, Kafka et al 1922
The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten, Herford 1904
“How The Helpmate Of Blue-Beard Made Free With A Door”, Carryl 1902
“Cannibalism in the Cars”, Twain 1868
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“Breakfast”, Lamb 1810
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“Rootless Root”
“Council of Andrews Aims to Unite All Who Bear the Greek Root Name of Andreas”, Andrews 2026
Council of Andrews Aims to unite all who bear the Greek root name of Andreas
“Stargate Physics 101”
“PaLM § Figure 19: [Explaining a Joke / Inference Chaining] Each ‘Input” Was Independently Prepended With the Same 2-Shot Exemplar Shown at the Top, and “Model Output’ Shows the Greedy Decoding Output of PaLM 540B. The Two Exemplar Jokes Are Known Jokes (Explanations Written by Authors), While All Evaluated Jokes Were Written by the Authors. Of Course, These Jokes Do Share Abstract Premises With Existing Jokes (Wordplay, Reliability, Humorous Analogies, Reversal-Of-Expectations). The Inference Chaining Examples Were Also Written by the Authors.”
“Bahfest”
“Noodle Incident”, Calvin & Wiki 2026
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“Compound Pejoratives on Reddit: from ‘Buttface’ to ‘Wankpuffin’”
Compound pejoratives on Reddit: from ‘buttface’ to ‘wankpuffin’
“The Artist Yoshitoshi, Whose Usual Specialty Was Serious Depictions of Historic Warriors, Has Envisioned the Eternal War between Cats and Mice As a Grand Epic of Battling Samurai Clans in 6 Small, Humorous Vignettes. The Mice Often Defeat the Cats by Such Means As Frightening Them With a Large Toy Dog, Trapping Them in Paper Snack Bags, or Stealing Food While the Cat on Watch Dozes Off.”
“The Tomorrow Man”
“Lil Werner”
“Rupert And Hubert”
“Secular Heaven”
“Epilogue”
“Trouble In Memphis”
“Girl Vs Bear”
“Traversing The Luminiferous Aether”
“Summer Dream Job”
“Dungeons And Discourse”
“Hob #20 - Copan”
“Hob #26 - Epilogue”
“Advanced Dungeons & Discourse”
“Exorcising Laplace's Demon”
“42 Essential 3rd Act Twists”
“A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism”
“Fabulous Prizes”
“You'Re A Good Man, Charlie Darwin”
“The Sleepwalkers”
“Caveman Science Fiction”, Diaz 2026
“Lantern Season”
“The Process”
“Dark Science #01 - The Collected Works of Shakespeare: the Movie”
Dark Science #01 - The Collected Works of Shakespeare: the Movie
“Dark Science #02 - The Complexities of Finance”
“Dark Science #09 - Insufficient Credibility”
“Dark Science #49 - Exode”
“Drachenfutter [‘Dragon-Food’: Gift for Angry Wives]”
Drachenfutter [‘dragon-food’: gift for angry wives]
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“Windfucker”
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“How I Did Relay Quine”
The Museum of Hoaxes
“Subways Are For Sleeping (1962) § Fake Critic Reviews”
“Is the Great Attractor a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?”
“Kingdom of Kyle”
“Hi, Bell Fen!”
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“Using GPT-3 to Explain Jokes”
“Sparse Autoencoders for Meme Retrieval”
“Divine Comedy: Lucian Versus The Gods”
“The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi”
“Cooking Up ‘Mehran’s Steak House’”, Jalali 2026
“G.K. Chesterton On AI Risk”
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“Samsara”
“My First Wave Meditation Grandma: So Great to Hear You’ve Gotten into That Bay Area Dharma Scene! How Are Those Old Hippies?…”, Eaton 2026
“Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found”
“6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling”
“Millions and Millions Dead”
“Study: Wolf Attacks Still Leading Cause Of Death In US”
“Blasphemail Postage Stamps”, Wask 2026
“Sealed Fate Candy Packets”, Wask 2026
“If All Stories Were Written like Science Fiction Stories”
“BMJ Christmas Issue”
Fontemon
“Strange Planet (Instagram)”, Pyle 2026
“Too Busy to Think about Life”
“Mike Lacher”
The Tao of Programming
“Reddit”
“マナーポスター (迷惑図絵) [Train Etiquette]”, 西武鉄道 2026
“AAAAH”, Weinersmith 2026
“A Long-Lost Space Age Satire about What It Means to Be a Jew from One of Science Fiction’s Greatest Humorists”
“God Answers Prayers Of Paralyzed Little Boy (‘No’)”, Onion 2026
“End of Evangelion In 5 Minutes (Live Action) (Sweded)—Mega64”
End of Evangelion In 5 Minutes (Live Action) (Sweded)—Mega64
“I Think I’m a Clone Now”
“My Deer Friend Nokotan § Torako’s Dance”
“Dare To Be Stupid”, Yankovic 2026
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poetclare
“Duty Calls”, Munroe 2026
“Bag Check”, Munroe 2026
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