20 Short Jokes That Give Long Laughs

There’s an art to a long joke. There’s an entire documentary about the different winding routes different comedians take to the punchline of what is certainly both the world’s longest and filthiest joke. Douglas Adams made a whole career of them. And Tyler Perry is one.

But see? There’s an art to the short joke as well. Maximizing the number of laughs in the fewest number of words possible is a specialized skill and damn near also a science in its math-like precision. It can also just be a dick pun, depending on the audience.

Whatever the case, when user KevlarGorilla asked r/AskReddit, “What is the shortest, very funny joke you know?” the works of art and science and dick puns were equally represented.