Grumpy
Old Folk

🏆 Top 10 Puns & Wordplay

Ranked by real reader upvotes. The cream of the crop.

  1. ________________________

    With all the bad puns going around, I had to draw the line somewhere.

    👍 2,812 upvotes

  2. So there's a fly...

    and a gnat lands on its back. The fly says, "is there a gnat on my back?" The gnat says, "gnat at all." The fly says, "that's the worst pun I've ever heard." The gnat goes, "what do you expect, I just made it up on the fly!"

    👍 1,733 upvotes

  3. It's hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs...

    Because they always take things literally.

    👍 1,356 upvotes

  4. Puns are the only form of humor where a groan is high praise and a laugh is a fair attempt.

    Well, that and sex.

    👍 1,059 upvotes

  5. My girlfriend found one of my puns so funny that she flew into space and told it to an alien. Unfortunately, the alien didn't laugh.

    Personally, I think she took the joke a bit too far.

    👍 490 upvotes

  6. I discovered I have a fetish for figuring things out. (X-post /r/puns)

    I came to the realization.

    👍 312 upvotes

  7. What's the difference between a pun and a dad joke?

    A pun can make you groan, but a dad joke goes even father.

    👍 273 upvotes

  8. A great pun...

    is its own reword.

    👍 163 upvotes

  9. I wrote a theatrical performance on puns

    Really, it was just a play on words.

    👍 157 upvotes

  10. Why don't kleptomaniacs get puns?

    They always take things literally.

    👍 122 upvotes