WHat Makes People Laugh LogoA day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin

Slide the tabs across to select a language. Click on the image to go to the humor collection, choose from the topic list or see the clickable map below.

ASL
Women signing to each other
Danish
Chinese
English
Esperanto

Esperanto

… is the world’s most widely spoken constructed
international auxiliary language.
Created in 1887 by L. L. Zamenhof, who was born in Poland in 1859

Finnish
German
Greek
Olive trees in Greece
Greenlandic
Icelandic
Igara
Woman speaking on phone
Italian
Norwegian
Romanian
Spanish
Swedish
Ukrainian

Humor Topics

Click on a word below to see jokes on that topic.

Humor Tags
Abbreviations Accidents Activities Activity Alaska Alaskan Humor Alcohol Animals Appellation Argentina Artificial Foods Artificial Sweeteners Astronomy Australia Bad Driving Bars Beverages Birds Boats Books British Humor Building Bureaucracy Businesses Canada Car Names Car Reliability Car Repairs Cars Character Traits Children Chinese Chinese Humor Climate Clothing colombia Communication Competition Computers Construction Conversation Crime Cultural History Cultural Reference Culture Customers Dancing Darkness Deaf Community Death Death Notices Dentists Detective Fiction Dialect dictionary Disease Doctors Drinking Driving Emotions Esperanto Jokes Exercise Family Farmers Farms Fear Feet Fishing Food Footwear Funeral Future games Geography Geolocated German Grandchildren Greetings Hairstyles Hamburgers Happiness Health Heckling Highways Hiking Historical Hobbies Hot Dogs Houses Humor Impossible events Index Insects Insults Ireland Italy Japan Jobs Joke Book Judges kinds of jokes Knock-Knock Law Lawyers Lectures Lies Literary Characters Literature Maps Marriage Math Mathematics Mechanics Medical Medicine Membership Mendacity Mercantile Merchants Misfortune Mississippi Mistakes Money Morning Morse Code Movies Museums Music Mythological Creatures Names Naming Natural Disaster Neighbors News Nostalgia Nuns Objects Occupations Old age Old customs oman Omen Orthography Parents Patients Personal appearance Philosophy Physics Pigs Playing cards Podcast Political Systems Politicians Politics Pop Culture Pranks presidents Prices Professions Programming Pronunciation Pun Punishment Relatives Religion Restaurants Rewards Romance Royalty Rural Life Salesmen Salutations saudi arabia School Science Scientists Seasons Selling Server Shops Shyness Sleep Snow Speech Sports STEM Stores Stories Student Students Swindles Teachers Technology Time Time Travel Tour Guides Transportation Travel United States Jokes Vampires Ventriloquism Vision Wait Staff War Weather Word Play World can be divided into Writers

Map of Jokes

View the posters created for in-person presentation of this exhibit:

What Makes People Laugh Posters