One-Liners
- (A) Cruel: I wanted my accountant to record my business on a cash basis, but he refused, saying that it's accrual world.
- A Dictionary: Heroin, cocaine, morphine, crystal meth and more definitions can be found in your addictionary!
- A Roamer: My traveling stinks because I am aroma.
- Advice: Someone suggested that I put advertisements on my clamps, but I thought that was bad ad-vice.
- Affirmative: Nodding your head is an example of affirmative action.
- Algorithm: A Vice-President playing the bongos is mathematical because he's an Al Gore Rhythm.
- All the Wrong Places: Star Wars burlesque has me looking for love in Alderaan places.
- Alone: Borrowed money is always by itself because it’s a loan.
- Angry: The colour of rage is angreen.
- Any Longer: The company that makes yardsticks isn't going to make them any longer.
- Applause: The Rules for Clapping are called Applaws.
- Apply: I wonder if ballet dancers have to a-plié to join a company, or just audition.
- Architect: Noah was an engineer and an ark-itect.
- Architect: People who design dog houses are barkitects.
- Are: I wonder if young pirates in love say, "I love you just the way you arrrr."?
- Ask It: A mortician teacher might say "If you have a question, just casket!"
- Aspire: I strive to be a church steeple because its a spire.
- Ass Tear: A move that causes the seat of your pants to rip as you tap-dance is called the Astaire.
- Asshole: Wishing wells are rude because they're a bunch of ask-holes.
- At Ground Level: The problem that seniors have with gardening is that it's at ground level.MS
- Atmosphere: Did you hear about the restaurant on the moon? The food is great, but it has no atmosphere.
- Bag Here: The location of a plastic bag recycling station can be marked by a character from The Jungle Books: Bagheera.
- Bail: I named my plane "Enola Hay", but when I got into trouble, I had to bale out.
- Bail: I got arrested for stealing hay, but got out of jail after posting bale.
- Bail Out [of a plane]: I wonder if it's wise to refer to financial aid for skydiving schools as a "bailout".
- Balance: I was at an ATM yesterday when a little old lady asked if I could check her balance, so I pushed her over.
- Banquet: To celebrate the grand re-opening of the First National Bank after the flood, they held a bank-wet.
- Barbarian: An uncivilized hair stylist could be called a barberian.
- Barbells: A ladies' glee club that performs in the lounges of fitness clubs could be called the Bar-Belles.
- Bartender: A termite walks into a bar and asks "Is the bar tender here?"
- Bassinet: The best thing with which to catch fish is a baby's bed: a bassinet.
- Bawdy House: A funeral director got busted on a prostitution-related charge - running a common body house.
- Believe: The apiarist left his job, if you can bee leave it.
- Belt and Suspenders: On May 1, I like to be extra cautious and wear suspenders as well as my belt, because I'm a Beltane suspenders guy.
- Billed: For my assembly services, you will be build.
- Birthday: When a ship comes into port, it gets a little older because it's a berthday.
- Blow Out: Think of the effort I could save by buying birthday candles at a blow-out sale.
- Blue Toe: It was when Popeye's nemesis walked barefoot through a tray of indigo dye that he became known as Bluto.
- Boarding: My kid didn't know how to get on an airplane, so we sent him to boarding school.
- Body: Off-colour jokes are, for morticians, bawdy humour.
- Boing: When airplane manufacturers are on pogo sticks, they say "Boeing, Boeing, Boeing!"
- Bouncer: Nobody gets rowdy at the Trampoline Tavern because they have lots of bouncers.
- Boutique: A fancy little shop specializing in marine supplies is a boatique.
- Boutique: A good place to shop for fancy footwear is a bootique.
- Bow Tie: While on board a ship, I wear a boat-tie.
- Break In: Preparing new shoes for use is like being a burglar, since you have to break them in.
- Break Into: Musical theatre is a great place for burglars. People are always breaking into song.
- Breaking News: New info on the Monarch of the Donkeys is bray king news.
- Britney Spears: Western France was known for its singing pikemen, the Brittany Spears.
- Broadloom: Heavily soiled carpet could be called broadloam.
- Broker: They're called stock brokers because you're seldom richer after you deal with them.
- Brouhaha: If beer had bubbles of nitrous oxide, it would be noisy in a funny way because it would be a brewhaha.
- Bust [women's]: I predict that the movie I'm making about building a bra out of Lego will be a blockbuster.
- Cabaret: Cab[0], cab[1], … , cab[n] is very entertaining because it's a cab array.
- Called to the Bar: The places where lawyers join their professional association should be saloons, since it's where they're called to the bar.
- Canna Pay: Free party snacks are provided for those who canapé.
- Capitalize: I am very good at starting sentences, but I don't like to capitalize on it.
- Caps: The correct way to spell "hats" is HATS because it's all caps.
- Capsized: When you flip a boat over in the water, you can fit it on your head because it is cap-sized.
- Carpet: If you take your dog for a drive, it will turn into a rug because it's a carpet.
- Cartoons: I always get animated when I listen to musical pieces in the car, because they're car-tunes.
- Cashmere: Shops that sell fine woolens are good at turning mere cash into cashmere. Especially in Kashmir.
- Casualty: People in the armed forces prefer formal tea over casual tea.
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: The first draft of Tennessee Williams' play about a dysfunctional family featured a squabble over a Japanese sword and was called "Katana Hot Tin Roof".
- Caved: My friends kept pressuring me to go spelunking, so I finally caved.
- Centrifuge: A perfume-free merry-go-round is a scent-refuge.
- Chance: I always wanted to be a Gregorian monk, but I never got the chants.
- Charge: The farmer allows walkers to cross the field for free. But the bull charges.
- Check [chess term]: My career as a chess grandmaster was kept in check by my incompetence.
- Chimpanzee: The flower preferred by Jane Goodall is the chimp pansy.
- Circulation: The magazine about ceiling fans went out of business due to low circulation.
- Classless: You are so classless that you could be a Marxist utopia.
- Clipper: The favourite ships of barbers and hairstylists are clippers.
- Closed: When the strip club isn't open their sign reads 'Sorry, we're clothed'.
- Collect Himself [expression]: When the shocked IRS agent was convicted of tax evasion, he had to take time to collect himself.
- Comeback: The Boomerang Champ had a mid-season slump, but eventually made a comeback and won again.
- Comic Strip: Would a picture of a clown removing his/her clothes be a comic strip?
- Communication: If you ever get locked out of your house, talk to your lock calmly, because communication is key.
- Contact [lenses]: My phone has to wear glasses ever since it lost its contacts.
- Counterfeiters: People who install kitchens are into fake money because they're counter-fitters.
- Course: A series of university lectures on hydrology could be called the "Water Course".
- Covered: My insurance company said if my tent is stolen while I'm camping, I won't be covered.
- Cow Boy: The Minotaur was the first cowboy.
- Crook: Shepherds could be master criminals, since they work with crooks every day.
- Cure Rating: Doctors and museums have one thing in common: they are judged on their curating.
- Daguerreotype: Swords and knives could be illustrated in books using dagger-otype.
- Dalai: If the chief Buddhist became a surrealist painter, he could be called Salvador Dali Lama.
- Darth Vader: Any character on Game of Thrones who runs away from Brienne could be on Star Wars, as a Tarth Evader.
- Dead Pan (2): Any humour coming from an undertaker's kitchen would have to be deadpan.
- Decree: A First Nations dictatorship would feature rule by deCree.
- Déjà Vu: Rewatching the movie Halloween gives me a feeling of déjà boo.
- De-Lighted: I should have been sad when my flashlight batteries died, but I was delighted.
- Demonstration: When attempting to sell new Products for Torment in Hell, one always needs to provide a demon-stration.
- Deported: When a ship gets kicked out of a country, it is de-ported.
- Depressed: Old tailors don't get wrinkly, they get de-pressed.
- Derriere: Cow farts come from the dairy air.
- Detergents: I hear it's easy to convince ladies to not eat Tide pods, but it's hard to deter gents.
- Distinctive: Don't talk smack to a skunk because it has a diss-stinktive aroma.
- Diverse: People who leap into water head first are a divers bunch.
- Do It Yourself: When the scientist wanted to clone a deer, he bought a doe it yourself kit.
- Do it Yourself: I could not find a singing partner so I bought a duet-yourself kit.
- Don't Know Why: I'm super-friendly with 25 letters of the alphabet, but I don't know why.
- Dora the Explorer [kids' TV show]: A kids' TV show about a magical hat that goes on educational journeys could be called "Fedora the Explorer". Its catchphrase could be "You can stay here, I'll go on ahead."
- Double-Tap: Assassin dancers prefer to double-tap.
- Draw: A reality TV contest between two cartoonists ended in a draw.
- Drawer: Bureaus and dressers are for artists because they're full of drawers.
- Drawn Out: Cartoonists' feuds can be really long and drawn-out.
- Dream Job: To be a mattress tester is my dream job.
- Drunk On: "Did you know that you can get as drunk on water as you can on land?" - W.C. Fields
- Duplicate: Kate named her clone Dupli Kate.
- Each Other: Cows lie down in the rain to keep each udder dry.
- Eek-Wine: Jockeys drink booze made from frightened grapes: Equine.
- Elongate: Let's hope that Elon Musk doesn't get involved in a scandal because ElonGate would be really drawn out.
- Em-Barking: Dogs are noisy when they're getting on ships because they're embarking.
- Employment: "Cannabis Cultivation Technician": a new hemployment.
- End Table: Any table that kills you is an end table.
- Equinox: March 21 and September 21 are days when horses don't use doorbells because they're equine-noxes.
- Expectations Raised: Motto of a demolitions company: "Your expectations have been razed."
- Exterminator: Pest Control is the best employment option for T-1000s if they live long enough to retire since, at that point, they will be ex-Terminators.
- Fabrication: All quilts are lies: complete fabrications!
- Far Away: Egypt isn't close, it's pharaoh way.
- Fasten: The tenth Fast and Furious movie should be called Fast Ten: Your Seatbelt.
- Father Figure: I don't have a 'dad bod', I have a 'father figure'.
- Fathom: I’m trying to work out an easy way to convert the 2 metre social distancing rule into imperial measurements, but it’s just a bit more than I can fathom.
- Fear: The only thing flat-earthers fear is sphere itself.