Dad Jokes
15 jokes
A dad joke is built to make you groan before you laugh. The setup sounds like an honest question, the punchline turns on a pun, and the whole thing lands in under ten words. That is the entire craft — no shock value, no cruelty, just a wordplay trapdoor you walk straight into.
The jokes below are short enough to remember after reading once, which is really the point: a dad joke only works when you can redeploy it at the dinner table three hours later. Everything here is safe for kids, safe for the office, and reliably groan-inducing.
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Frequently asked questions
- What makes a joke a dad joke?
- Three things: it is short, it turns on a pun or a deliberate misreading of a word, and it is completely clean. If the listener rolls their eyes instead of laughing, it worked.
- Are dad jokes suitable for children?
- Yes. Every dad joke on JokeEmpire is family-friendly by design, which is why kids tend to memorise them faster than adults do.
- How do I deliver a dad joke well?
- Deadpan and unhurried. Say the setup like you mean it, pause for one beat, then deliver the punchline without smiling. The straighter your face, the bigger the groan.
Every dad jokes on one page
Each joke has its own page with the punchline, a share link and related jokes. Browse the full list below.
- Why don't skeletons fight each other?
- I'm reading a book about anti-gravity.
- What do you call cheese that isn't yours?
- Why did the scarecrow win an award?
- Hvorfor tog kyllingen over vejen?
- Hvad kalder man en fisk uden øjne?
- I only know 25 letters of the alphabet.
- What do you call a fish wearing a bowtie?
- Why don't eggs tell jokes?
- How do you organize a space party?
- I used to hate facial hair,
- Why did the coffee file a police report?
- Hvad sagde nul til otte?
- Hvorfor kan spøgelser ikke lyve?
- Hvad kalder man en boomerang, der ikke kommer tilbage?
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Funny Jokes
Most joke lists are padded. This one is not: every entry below has been picked because it survives being read on a screen with no delivery, no timing and no laughing friend nearby to help it along. If a joke only works when a comedian says it, it did not make the list.
Knock Knock Jokes
The knock knock joke is the first joke most people ever learn, and that is exactly why it keeps working. It hands the listener a script: they know their two lines, they say them, and they walk straight into the punchline they helped build. No other joke format makes the audience a co-author.
Short Jokes
A short joke has nowhere to hide. There is no story to carry a weak ending and no build-up to distract from a lazy pun, so the whole thing lives or dies on one turn of phrase. That constraint is why one-liners are the hardest format to write and the easiest one to retell.
Jokes for Kids
Kids do not need clever. They need a joke with a shape they can copy, a punchline they can shout, and words they already know. Every joke in this section clears that bar, and none of them rely on a reference a seven-year-old has to have explained.
Christmas Jokes
Christmas humour has one job: survive being read aloud to a room that is already full, already warm and already halfway through dessert. Nothing here needs a build-up, and nothing needs explaining twice.
Birthday Jokes
A birthday joke has to fit inside a card, land in a speech and survive being read by the person it is about. That rules out most of the internet and leaves the short, warm ones.