Humor
 
  • American Humor: A Study of the American Character.
    Traces the regional development of American humor. Includes Southern and Yankee humor, comic poets, and humor of the West. From American Studies at the University of Virginia.

  • Anomalous Anonymies.
    Grammar goofs gathered from student papers and other sources around the world.

  • BadPuns.com, the site where you get your muds wordled.
    Shaggy dog stories, spoonerisms, Tom Swifties, jokes, cartoons, a pun forum and more.

  • Bozo Criminal of the Day.
    Stories of criminals who make stupid mistakes and get caught. The archive goes back to 1997.

  • Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
    "Where 'WWW' means Wretched Writers Welcome," this is the home page of the famous (or infamous) contest for the world's worst opening line. It includes contest rules, past winners, and an electronic submissions link.

  • Darwin Awards.
    The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways.

  • Dialectizer.
    The Dialectizer takes text or other web pages and instantly creates parodies of them. Type in a URL and select a dialect such as Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Moron, Pig Latin, or Hacker, and see the page displayed in a "dialect."

  • Humor in the News.
    Updated every Sunday, a satirical look at today's news through photo captions.

  • ICanHasCheezburger.
    Humor for animal lovers and especially for cat lovers.

  • IHasAHotDog.
    Humor for dog lovers... and even cat lovers.

  • Pundit Kitchen.
    Political Humor.

  • Scatty.com.
    Over 12,000 jokes for kids and all the family.

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