As the name implies, an anti-joke is a kind of indirect joke that is not actually funny and sometimes does not make any meaning. Usually, the audience would expect a joke that is very funny but instead, they get to hear something that does not sound like a joke and in most cases is without meaning.
This irony usually triggers the humour in the joke and makes people laugh. The comedians who tell this kind of joke have perfected the act of getting booed off the stage so that it no longer weighs on their mind. To help you understand more about this kind of joke, here are some examples of the best funny anti-jokes you may find interesting.
Funny Anti-Jokes
1. What did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing – but it let out a little whine.
2. The experienced carpenter really nailed it, but the new guy screwed everything up.
3. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference.
4. I used to be addicted to soap, but I’m clean now.
5. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
6. The shoemaker did not deny his apprentice anything he needed. He gave his awl.
7. When William joined the army he disliked the phrase ‘fire at will’.
8. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
9. What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? The Holocaust.
10. I like my coffee like my women.
11. What do you call a black man on the moon? An astronaut.
12. I don’t trust these stairs because they’re always up to something.
13. I couldn’t quite remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually, it came back to me.
14. My friend’s bakery burned down last night. Now his business is toast.
15. Broken puppets for sale. No strings attached.
16. Two peanuts were walking in a tough neighbourhood and one of them was a-salted.
17. Novice pirates make terrible singers because they can’t hit the high seas.
18. Did you hear about these new reversible jackets? I’m excited to see how they turn out.
19. I usually take steps to avoid elevators.
20. There was a big paddle sale at the boat store. It was quite an oar deal.
21. No one knew she had a dental implant until it came out in a conversation.
22. Sleeping comes so naturally to me, I could do it with my eyes closed.
23. What’s the definition of a will? (It’s a dead giveaway).
24. Don’t trust people who do acupuncture, they’re backstabbers.
25. The Police was called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
Anti-Jokes List
26. He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.
27. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
28. A duck walks into a bar. Animal control is promptly called and the duck is released in a nearby park.
29. Why could Jimmy not drive a tractor? Because he had no arms or legs. Why? Because he is a potato.
30. There are two muffins sitting in an oven. One muffin says to the other, “It sure is hot in here”. The other muffin says, “Yeah like 350, 375”.
31. What’s brown and sticky? A stick.
32. It was an emotional wedding. Even the cake was in tiers.
33. I saw a beaver movie last night, it was the best dam movie I’ve ever seen.
34. I was struggling to figure out how lightning works then it struck me.
35. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
36. A hungry traveller stops at a monastery and is taken to the kitchens. A brother is frying chips. ‘Are you the friar?’ he asks. ‘No. I’m the chip monk,’ he replies.
37. I once heard a joke about amnesia, but I forgot how it goes.
38. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat says to the other, ‘You stay here, I’ll go on a head.’
39. The magician got so mad he pulled his hare out.
40. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now.
41. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
42. I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down.
43. It’s not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn’t have the balls to do it.
44. I used to be a banker but I lost interest
45. Jill broke her finger today, but on the other hand, she was completely fine.
