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30 Funny Jokes That Probably Only Dads Will Be Able To Truly Appreciate (New Pics)
Interview With Expert
Good dad jokes aren't limited to one format. From playful one-liners to unexpected comparisons, they come in all shapes and sizes.
However, what if I told you that one of the best to ever tell them wasn't even a real dad? At least not in the traditional sense of flesh and bones.
There's a character on the internet with a receding hairline and a white shirt who's actually a comedic genius—second to your old man, of course.
Continue scrolling to check out some of the best posts from the fun social media project, 'Dad Jokes!'
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Bryn 8 months ago
Having a vodoo chiropractor seems like it wouldn't be too bad of an idea.
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Hippopotamuses 8 months ago (edited)
This is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. It's up there with "Dinner's on the stove. I've left the gas on, so you just have to light the burner."
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ninjaTrashPandaBoom 8 months ago
Doing the "Luke, I am your father" line in your deepest voice through the tube into a fan...
Q 8 months ago
you mean "no, i am your father"? (i know, i know, mandela died in prison...)
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Riley Quinn 8 months ago
Empty cardboard rolls made the best cat toys. Putting it against an exposed belly and blowing into it, bopping them when they walked by, making weird noises to get their attention, or just letting them play their own games.
LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
Thanks for the ideas, now I know how to torment- I mean play with mine next. *rubs hands together with a muahahahaha* 😜
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Andrew Keir 8 months ago
"Are you there, Moriarty?" - if you've ever played that game. Warning - it can be rather vicious.
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 8 months ago
There's a great episode of QI where they demonstrate that game. It's hilarious.
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Alan Jay Weiner 8 months ago
We call cardboard tubes "der-ders" because you put it up to your mouth and go "der-der" :)
As priceless as these posts are, we are ultimately interested in broader family fun—so we got in touch with our parenting expert, Vicki Broadbent.
She's an award-winning TV broadcaster, best-selling author, and the woman behind the acclaimed blog Honest Mum. She told Bored Panda that smiles and giggles are part of the day when you're spending it with your children.
"My kids make me laugh every single day, whether it's the wise observations my tween and teen say, or my bright three-year-old with her sass, silly jokes, or the sweet ways she tries to get her own way, for example, pretending she's 'so thirsty' [and therefore] 'needs an ice lolly.'"
"Parenting allows us to reconnect with the part of us that was their age once and which still resides within us," Broadbent said. "I love that I get to be a fun mom as well as someone who supports, teaches, guides, and loves my kids unconditionally! There's no one on earth funnier than kids. Well, maybe cats!"
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UKGrandad 8 months ago
There are several downvoting trolls on here who won't find this one at all funny because correcting grammar is the worst thing that one can do, apparently.
Pandemonium 8 months ago
Many years ago I adopted the policy to only correct the grammar of those who still needed to take SAT/ACT/GCSE or similar exams. Don't correct a co-worker, relative or comment troll
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Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Maybe don't correct her Granma too often - she deserves respect, after all. Not that many people live to be a great Granma ...
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Yayheterogeneity 8 months ago
Yes, and I'll be doing that for an entire week once my husband is gone with the kids visiting the grandparents next week. Bliss! Just me and the dogs and no people. No thanks 🙏
Some parents worry that acting silly around their children will damage their image as authority figures, but Vicki Broadbent doesn't see why the two can't coexist together.
"I think it's important to show our kids that we are human, and I believe having fun with your children is vital," she said. "Childhood is such a precious but fleeting time, and it should be filled with as much joy as possible."
"As long as there are boundaries and you follow through when you discipline, for instance, provide warnings regarding difficult behaviour and then if they persist, ensure you follow through with a tech ban or grounding etc.," you should be good!
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Floeckchen 8 months ago
Well yes, she lives in the future of her own wedding
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LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
This joke should be taught in Dad Jokes 101 - it's timeless. I'll see myself out.
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Mason Kronol 8 months ago
My husband would agree with this. I just got off the phone with him to hive give directions to a store we've been to many times, he's just stopping after work so he's coming to the road from a different direction. same road he's traveled for 23 years. 🤦🏻♀️😂 Same when he tries to cook for himself.
Alan Jay Weiner 8 months ago
It has taken me many years to learn that when we disagree, my wife is usually right. (We've been married 32 years, btw)
Broadbent, author of Mumboss (UK) and The Working Mom (US and Canada), said, "Being consistent with discipline and rules doesn't mean you can't laugh with your kids! The most treasured and memorable moments will always be when you're having fun together!"
As she enjoys the quality time with her family, the mom also sees her and her husband's sense of humor reflected in their children. The couple tries to be role models for them in every way, so being able to laugh at similar things is an awesome addition to everyday life.
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R Ray 8 months ago (edited)
That's a prime example of a democracy.. too bad the US was built to be a republic and we gave our power away to our employees.. except they are using OUR money.
Steve Kadner 8 months ago
The only true form of Democracy in this country are ballot initiatives and referendums. Everything else is a representative government where we elect people that only want to line their own pockets to run the country. And now, even unelected people are running the country tying to line their own pockets.
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Peter Bear 8 months ago
Congratulations, you've actually taught them about oligarchy, which is what we've had in America for decades now. It's just no longer a secret.
"I love that I can share shows I love with my teen, for example, and he, at 15, in turn recommends programmes he thinks I'll enjoy," Vicki Broadbent of Honest Mum said.
"Our quality one-on-one time is spent watching films and TV, mostly when the younger kids are asleep. At 15, he's busy with his friends and studies, but we always carve out time to reset and watch a box set together, and those times are so precious for me!"
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Heras buddy 8 months ago
Never forget to bring the Cheetos towel. That way your clothes stay fairly clean.
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Andrew Keir 8 months ago
And if a Chemistry teacher says 'smell this', just waft a tiny bit of air from above the test-tube. You'll thank yourself later, when someone takes a deep sniff of ammonia ... Note to self - Chemistry teaches have a very basic sense of humour.
Karri Berkowitz 8 months ago
My husband doesn’t fall for this anymore. It’s never anything nice but the kids and I laugh.
Bored Sailor 8 months ago
You never met my wife. Love her dearly, but she knows even good smelling things I do not like just pushed under my nose.
Riley Quinn 8 months ago (edited)
I possessed hearing, my ex had the sense of smell. So, when I said "shush", it meant I was hearing something I needed to identify (a cat crying or whatever). However, when I said, "take a whiff of this", my ex knew it wouldn't be something pleasant.
ElfVibratorGlitter 8 months ago
Hahahaha! You don't know me then, don't ever smell what's in my closet hand.
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UKGrandad 8 months ago
How many pedants does it take to change a light bulb? None. You only change the dark ones.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
I bought a box of 6 new ornamental bulbs recently- they're all pretty light these days
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I used to be scared of my electric bill, but I had solar installed. Now I'm scared of my solar bill
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Pearl Biber 8 months ago
Dude, stop talking about money; ain't nobody wanna hear it.
Load More Replies...Coming back to dad jokes for a second, Marc Hye-Knudsen, who is a humor researcher and lab manager at Aarhus University's Cognition and Behavior Lab, believes it would be a mistake to dismiss them as bad jokes and, at the same time, accuse dads of not having a sense of humor.
"When considered properly, dad jokes are an intricately multi-layered and fascinating phenomenon that reveals a lot not just about how humor and joke-telling work but also about fathers' psychology and their relationships with their children," Hye-Knudsen said.
"Dad jokes work on at least three levels: as puns, as anti-humor, and as a kind of weaponized anti-humor when dads use them to teasingly annoy and/or embarrass their children."
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Novlette Williams 8 months ago
Oh!!! Took me a while to get this one. He meant Jail....hahaha. I obviously did not go to Yale.
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Trophy Husband 8 months ago
I have two older sisters. All three of us had the same kindergarten teacher. One of my sisters ran into her at a store many years later and she remembered us. She said "I taught your sister, and she was such a joy to have in class. And then you came a long, and you were actually the best student I've ever had. So well-behaved, and so eager to learn." At this point in the story, her voice darkens. "And then there was your brother..." Reader: we are not defined by what we did as kids, nor by the number of teachers that we caused to retire...
Riley Quinn 8 months ago
This joke is bringing back bad, old memories of having the same teachers as my dumber cousins who were troublemakers. I was preemptively condemned simply by DNA association.
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Steve Kadner 8 months ago
Ummm, i think that's a swan not an ugly duckling!
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According to Hye-Knudsen, puns typically violate the conversational norm against ambiguity.
"In normal conversation, we can safely assume that the person we are talking to will only ever say one thing at a time, with their words thus having a clear, singular meaning," he explained. "With a pun, we violate this norm by deliberately saying at least two different things at the same time."
While he considers virtually all dad jokes to be puns, Hye-Knudsen doesn't think that all puns are dad jokes.
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Paul C. 8 months ago
I hope I d!e peacefully in my sleep, like my grandad......not screaming like the passengers on his bus.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 8 months ago
Unless you are old and fall asleep at the wheel and wake up in a hospital bed :(
ElfVibratorGlitter 8 months ago
I tell asleep on the sofa last night and woke up on the sofa early this morning no teleporting for me neither
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Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Once you stop having children, your supply of heirs is severely limited
LizzieBoredom 8 months ago (edited)
Bald people keep their combs in case they're ever stranded again.
"The pun is often used as a means of violating another norm of some kind, typically a social norm, as with a sexual pun ... Dad jokes are, by contrast, pure, terminally inoffensive puns. This is what makes them wholesome and appropriate for dads to tell around their kids."
Admittedly, it's also what makes dad jokes so susceptible to accusations of being stupid, lame, and unfunny.
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Philly Bob 8 months ago
I wanted to mail you something hot for Christmas but the post master ripped the stamp off of my a*s and kicked me out.
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LizzieBoredom 8 months ago
"But Dad, I don't want to go to England". "Shut up and keep swimming!".
"Normally, when someone shifts to the humorous mode of discourse, which is typically signalled through a shift in tone or the use of discursive markers (e.g., 'have you heard the one about…'), this is because they have something genuinely funny to say," Hye-Knudsen continued.
"Dad jokes flagrantly violate this norm by following up this shift with a thoroughly tame pun." A dad joke can thus be so stupid, so lame, and so bad that this paradoxically makes it good.
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Roger Haywood 8 months ago
Vincent Van Gough, cut a bit off. When they asked him why, he said.... Pardon? You what? Come again?
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And they're universal! While "dad joke" is the undisputed term for the phenomenon in Anglo-American culture, Hye-Knudsen highlighted that the Japanese have a similar concept, called oyaji gyagu, which can be translated to "old men's gags" or "middle-aged men's gags." Danes also have the term "dad jokes" (far jokes in Danish), but it belongs to a bigger family, including onkel humor ("uncle humor") and morfar vittigheder ("grandfather jokes").
"The common denominator here is men of a certain age," Hye-Knudsen said. "Old enough to have children around them who can scoff and roll their eyes in embarrassment."
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Finally, another reason why dad jokes have become part of pop culture might be the changing social expectations of men in general. "[They] seem perfectly tailored to the modern father figure, a markedly softer and less domineering kind of patriarch than that of earlier eras," Marc Hye-Knudsen concluded. "The dad in question has to be willing to embarrass himself – to play the fool – in order to vicariously embarrass his kids."
For more, check out Bored Panda's previous article, 50 Jokes With Punchlines That Ought To Make A Dad Giggle.
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Roger Haywood 8 months ago
My wife caught me covering myself with curry powder, tumeric and paprika. She asked me why. I said it was 'Old Spice'.
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Nicola Roberts 8 months ago
I prefer PICNIC, problem in chair not in computer.
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ElfVibratorGlitter 8 months ago
Haha. Steps are hard. I just had surgery last week to correct an injury I got from falling down from the second from the bottom step. Two steps! 😔
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Andrew Keir 8 months ago
... and this is why the whole family takes the bus to school, work, shopping ...
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Michael Largey 8 months ago
It takes longer if you eat it in small portions, so each of my bites was quite minute.
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Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Aw, give him the benefit of the doubt - Pharaoh Rochest ;-)
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Lynn Drew 8 months ago
Wait a minute, if BP said naked, does that mean we can say it too? naked naked naked naked!
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ElfVibratorGlitter 8 months ago
I mean, I've definitely heard that rumbas (and other similar brands) send back the maps it creates if your floor plan to HQ. C*****d me up because mine had.... navigation issues and I have no idea what bizarre info (if any) was being passed along.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Nah, I don't use the vacuum cleaner on me, I just take showers in the normal way. But if I was the carpet, I'd be scared of the vacuum cleaner, I agree
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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 8 months ago
And chocolate milk comes from brown cows (According to a horrendous number of Americans)
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Nikki Gross 8 months ago
That would've been my Mom, because when that woman gave you "The Look" you knew you were in deepshit.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
They can't easily argue against silence, but sometimes silence is the most effective thing you can say
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Andrew Keir 8 months ago
If you're going to set the world on fire, maybe don't start with your school
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Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Well, they said perpendicular parking is safer than angled, but she still can't see approaching traffic
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ElfVibratorGlitter 8 months ago
It bothered me also. Not saying there's not something wrong with you. 🤣
Load More Replies... Pandemonium 8 months ago
Well, actually it should be Sttwo to match the pattern, followed by Stthree
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Ace 8 months ago
Pretty sure it's a Landrover under all that wood - probably more waterproof and quieter than mine.
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ElfVibratorGlitter 8 months ago
Okay, I NEVER understood this ever. I'm in USA, I call it a bill, and while everyone knows what I'm asking for, servers often correct me with"Oh, the check?".... How did USA get to calling a food invoice a check?
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Nicola Roberts 8 months ago
And yet speaking only UK English for half a century I could still work it out. 😉
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 8 months ago
Only works with ignorant American mispronunciation. "Van Gock" is usual, "Van Hook" is closer to the Dutch.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
If we're all going to have to pronounce foreign names as they do in their home countries, life is NOT going to be an never-ending sequence of delights
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Roger Haywood 8 months ago
My daughter asked what a dad joke was to my wife. She said "Your dad IS a joke".
Emie N. 8 months ago
Apparently people forget mom's make jokes too and would appreciate this post as well.
Peter Bear 8 months ago
What did the buffalo father say to his child on the first day of school? Bison.
Roger Haywood 8 months ago
My daughter asked what a dad joke was to my wife. She said "Your dad IS a joke".
Emie N. 8 months ago
Apparently people forget mom's make jokes too and would appreciate this post as well.
Peter Bear 8 months ago
What did the buffalo father say to his child on the first day of school? Bison.
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