Two-Liners
- (The) Fonz [Character on the TV show Happy Days]: I'm thinking about creating a TV show called "Happy Days". It'll be about a family of printers, but its real star will be the fonts. It will be a drama, so Comic Sans.
- A Lower: I burnt my Hawaiian pizza last night. I should have put the oven on aloha setting.
- A Nap: Is your iPad preventing you from falling asleep? Don't worry, there's a nap for that.
- A Sure: Making a bet on what colour something will be is risky. It's not azure thing.
- Abbot and Costello: "I hear that Elvis Costello and Abba will be touring this year." "Abba and Costello? Who's on first?"
- About: I'm finally going to sit and read that Stephen Hawking book. It's about time.
- Accent: I accidentally sprayed some deodorant in my mouth. Now I speak with a weird Axe scent.
- Accordion: My Honda Accord was struck by lightning and acquired a positive charge. Then it started playing music. It had become and Accord-ion.
- Acoustics: The sound from a musician on stage bounces off the auditorium walls to surround the audience. The sound from a pigeon on stage does not, because a coo sticks.
- Acquire: "How much would it cost to buy a singing ensemble?" "You mean 'a choir'?" "Fine, how much to acquire a singing ensemble?"
- Adverse: Test audiences always hate advertisements with poetry. They have adverse reactions to them.
- Ahead: I have a deep admiration for busts. They're really ahead of their time.
- Amazement: When I learned what a labyrinth was, I was astonished. It's what a maze meant.
- An Ear: We just bought an authentic Van Gogh coffee table. We know it's authentic because there's a bit of veneer missing.
- Angrier: My girlfriend doesn’t like it when I mess with her red wine. So I added fruit and lemonade to it, and she's sangria than ever.
- Anxiety: Brontophobia is the fear of thunder. Maybe we should call it bang-ziety?
- Apocalypse: Hockey Night in Canada has been suspended for the pandemic. It's really the end of the world - the Apuckalypse!
- Ardent: To promote Valentine's Day passion, make a letter R out of something and press it into a soft spot of your amour. It will make him/her R-dent.
- Are, Son: "Dad, are we pyromaniacs?" "Yes, we arson."
- Arson: "You two are pyromaniacs, and it looks like your boy is too!" "Well, he is our son Orson."
- Ask You: "Why is everything crooked?" "I was going to askew the same thing."
- Assembling Cabinet: The CEO of IKEA was elected Prime Minister of Sweden. He's currently assembling his cabinet.
- At Large: A shipment of weight loss pills was stolen this morning. The suspects are still at large.Pun.me
- Available: "Ring this chime when you are ready. It's the availa-bell."
- B Positive: My dad died when we couldn't remember his blood type. He kept insisting we "Be Positive", but it's hard without him.
- Battered: Did you hear about the big fight at the seafood restaurant? Battered fish were everywhere!
- Be Heading: I got a job as an executioner. I'll beheading there shortly.
- Bear Arms: The U.S. 2nd Amendment legalizes T-Shirts. Americans have the "right" to bare arms.
- Billionaire: I've started investing in stocks: beef, chicken, and vegetable. Someday I hope to be a bouillonaire.
- Bills to Pay: "Have you got bills to pay? If you do, please give it back. He looks silly bald." (Stolen from Laugh-In)
- Blocks: The LEGO stores are reopening. People are lined up for blocks!
- Blow Job: There exists a reporting application called Tableau. In a business environment, one should say "This is a job for Tableau!", not "This is a Tableau job!"
- Blow Up: An unsuccessful demolition engineer can only blow up balloons.
- Bolt: I bought a dog from a blacksmith. As soon as we got home, he made a bolt for the door.
- Booked: I heard that there's a hot new restaurant in town called The Library. I tried to get reservations, but it was fully booked.
- Bred: At the zoo, I saw some toast in one of the enclosures. It was bread in captivity.
- Brochure: "Bro, do you want this pamphlet?" "Bro, sure."
- Cabaret: I could make a big production out of putting a cool hat on a crow. I could call it a caw-beret.
- Called Ron: Harry Potter can't tell the difference between his best friend and his cooking pot. They're both cauldron.
- Can: Does a match box? No, but a tin can.
- Cannabis: The legalized marijuana industry needs a new name. I suggest cannabusiness.
- Cast: A doctor broke his leg while auditioning for a play. Luckily he was still able to make the cast.
- Catastrophe: The taxidermist mounted the wrong end of the lion that the big game hunter had killed. It was a cat ass trophy.
- Catch [fish]: There's no such thing as free fishing lessons. There's always a catch.
- Catch and Release: Catch and release works well for fishermen. Too bad it doesn't work for viruses and the like.
- Centre for Disease Control: In Greek mythology, Chiron was not only half-human and half-horse, but also a doctor of medicine. This made him a Centaur of Disease Control.
- Changing of the Guard: For Halloween, I will put on a military uniform and march around the yard swapping pumpkins. I call it the Changing of the Gourd.
- Check One Two: I have a Polish friend who's a sound engineer. I have a Czech one too.
- Cheech and Chong: Much is known about the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza. Less is known of one of its suburbs, Chichen Chong, which produced charcoal and blew a lot of smoke.
- Clean: I used to be addicted to soap. I'm clean now.
- Clear the Table: After dinner, my wife asked me to clear the table. I needed a running start, but I made it.
- Cliff Notes [literature summary series]: I lost my mountaineering textbook. Now all I have is Cliff Notes.
- Clog Dance: Even plumbers are getting into "alternative therapies". To clear blocked sinks or toilets, an "alternative" plumber will don wooden shoes and dance a two-minute jig around the offending item, which will then miraculously start to work again. They call it the "clog dance".
- Coach: People who work for passenger bus and train companies should be great at sports. Look at all the coaches they have to work with!
- Collection: "Lignite, bituminous and anthracite? Wow, what a coallection!"
- Combing: The local hairdresser got robbed. The police are combing the area.
- Come Forth: And the Lord said unto John: ‘Come forth and you will receive eternal life’. But John came fifth, and won a toaster.
- Company: Corporate raiders are a little too friendly. They want to keep you company.
- Complex: I have a phobia of over-engineered buildings. It's a complex complex complex.
- Con Artist: My friend works at a police station drawing sketches of suspects. She's a con artist.
- Contacts [Lenses]: To the thief who took my glasses: I will find you. I have contacts.
- Convenient: Someone asked me the most convenient time for them to contact me, and I said "7:11".
- Crime Fighters: I don't understand why DC and Marvel haven't licensed superhero house-cleaning products. After all, they are grime fighters.
- Criticizing: I was tossed out of my local park for arranging squirrels by height. They didn't like my critter sizing.
- Cry On: Whenever my girlfriend is sad, I let her draw things on my body. I gave her a shoulder to crayon.
- Damn: I watched a documentary about beavers yesterday. It was the best dam show ever!
- Day Off: I can't believe that I got fired from the calendar factory. All I did was take a day off.
- Decoy: I bought a fake koi fish for my pond. It's a dekoi.
- Die Late: Did you know that the pupils are the last thing to stop moving when you cease living? Yes, they dilate.
- Died: Yesterday I accidentally swallowed some food colouring. The doctor says I'm OK, but I feel like I've dyed a little inside.
- Dirty: Some people stole my soap. The dirty bastards.
- Dry Run: To practice for the marathon, I jogged in the desert. It was a dry run.
- E-I-E-I-O: "Old MacDonald in the 'hood. E-I-E-I-Yo-Mama."
- Elephant: I want a beer stein shaped like a pachyderm. I'd call it an alephant.
- Episodes: I told my therapist that I sometimes feel like my life is a TV show. He told me to let him know if I have any more episodes.
- Escargot: A snail got himself a fast car with the letter S on its side. He wanted to drive really quickly so that people would say "Look at that S car go!"
- Exercise: Priests who rid the world of evil spirits are always fit and healthy. It shows that exorcise is good for you.
- Exhaust: Last night I dreamed that I was a car muffler. I woke up exhausted.
- Expensive: It isn't cheap to quit being a philosopher and a thinker. In fact, it's ex-pensive.
- FaceTime (Apple iPhones): There's a guy around town stealing iPhones. When he's caught, he will FaceTime in prison.
- Fall: Humpty Dumpty had a terrible summer, but he had a great fall.Pun.me
- Falling Out: Some might call a balding guy's disagreement with his hair an argument, but it was more like a falling-out.
- False Prophet: My seismologist friend got a job predicting earthquakes. He's a real faults prophet.
- Faux Pas: I tell Dad jokes, but I have no kids. Does this make me a faux pa?
- Feel Awful: I ate too much Middle Eastern food. Now I falafel.
- Fentanyl: The soft drink Fanta is an opiod. When I run out, it's a Fanta-nil situation.
- Figment: "I have created a new colour called groozle!" "There is no such colour! It's a pigment of your imagination!"
- Final Frontier: It's hard to tell in the pictures, but Mr. Spock of Star Trek has three ears: the left ear, the right ear, and the final front ear.
- Finish Him: Did you know that the video game Mortal Kombat was based on Scandinavian church music? It was a Finnish hymn.
- Flash: My grocery store presents flash offers to me. Will the local camera shop as well?
- Flattery: "Your steam roller will not persuade me. Flattery will get you nowhere!"
- Frankenstein: We all know Albert Einstein was a genius, but his brother Frank made a monster.
- Freaky Friday (film): There's a movie about a hardware store that gives away key duplicates on Fridays. It's called Free Key Friday.
- Free Bee: A man walks into a pet store and asks for a dozen bees. The clerk carefully counts 13 bees out onto the counter. 'That’s one too many!' says the customer. The clerk replies 'It’s a freebie.
- Fresh Ground: "Waiter, this coffee tastes like mud!" "Yes, it's fresh ground."
- Gathering Dirt: Don't be worried about your TV and smart phone spying on you. Your vacuum cleaner has been gathering dirt on you for years.
- Gesture: Yesterday a clown held the door for me. It was a nice jester.
- Get It: "Your dog is so dumb, he doesn't even understand the concept of fetch." "Yeah, he just doesn't get it."
- Give It: The Historical Society was unable to sell the old prison gallows. They couldn't even gibbet away.
- Goodyear [brand of tire]: I had a happy childhood. My dad used to put me in tires and roll me downhill. Those were Goodyears.
- Grosser: A vegan once told me that people who sell meat are disgusting. I told him that people who sell fruit and vegetables are grocer.
- Ground: "Why does my coffee taste like mud?" "I don't know. It was ground a few minutes ago."
- Growing: I don't understand why there aren't more farmers. Isn't it supposed to be a growing industry?
- Half Off: You can always get good discounts at topless clubs. Everything is half-off.
- Handy Man: Our maintenance man lost his legs on the job. Now he's a handyman.
- Head Lines: Did you hear about the new corduroy pillows? They're making headlines everywhere!
- Heart Felt: I cut a heart shape out of red felt and glued it into a greeting card so that it would be a heart-felt expression of love.
- Hellmans [brand of mayonnaise]: Someone threw a jar of mayonnaise at me. I said, "What the Hellman?" I wonder if he was from the Mayo Clinic.
- Hemmorhoid: I wanted my rapper name to be M.C. Hammerhoid, but it made me the butt of piles of jokes and it didn't sit well.
- I Know a: Need an Ark? I Noah guy.
- I Was Right: Someone asked me what the ninth letter of the alphabet is. It was a total guess, but I was right.
- IKEA (company): Apple will make its car in Korea. It will fold flat and require some assembly and will be called iKia.
- Illuminati: Some people refer to those who refuse to change incandescent lightbulbs to fluorescents as wicked. I say they belong to a secret society - the Illumi-naughty.
- In Cahoots: I've been secretly plotting with Peruvian owls. We're Inca hoots.
- In the Pen: One ink spot walked up to another ink spot and said "Why are you crying?" The other ink spot replied "because my dad is in the pen and I don't know how long the sentence will be!"
- In the Pendant: "When I moved out, I got a locket with my picture in it." "You were independent?"
- Inaction: Welcome to the Lazy Olympics! Stay tuned to see the athletes inaction!
- Increasing: I'm looking at taking up origami as a hobby. My interest in it is in creasing.
- Incubus: A person once bought a used school bus and turned it into a mobile tattoo shop. He called it the "Ink You Bus" and gave demon-strations.
- Intend To: I hate auto-correct. It always makes me say things I don't Nintendo.
- Irate: I took the P out of a pirate. He got really angry.
- It Don't Mean a Thing… (Song): Some kids only like playgrounds if they have swings. Their theme song could be "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that Swing."
- It's Warm: My son asked me, "Daddy, why do bees stay in the hive in the winter?" I smiled and answered… "Swarm."
- Jamming: Why is there music coming from the printer? The paper is jamming again.
- Jean-Claude van Damme: A major martial arts actor in Waterworld is Jean-Claude van Damp. He made quite a splash in Hollywood!