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Dad jokes

the groan was never the joke's failure — it was always the point

A hundred bad jokes, the real kind, to drop at the table and wait for the eye-roll. Filter them by topic, by age, by how bad they are — and the spicy ones apart. Tap a card for the punchline.

Here “dad joke” is a cultural form, not a gender role: mothers, grandmas and aunts have the worst puns in the house. All of this is for any adult who wants to make a willing kid laugh — or groan.

Why does a bad joke work, how does it change with the child's age, and the two lines you never cross —teasing isn't mocking, and never mix the joke with authority? It's all in the essay: The art of the dad joke

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100 jokes

Every language has its own jokes: a pun doesn't translate — it's reinvented. These are English-native, not a translation of the others. Got a great (or terrible) one from your house? Tell us in Voices — the best ones join the collection.