Humorous essay and conversation topics

Humorous topics

  • How to lose weight without losing your mind.
  • How to get rid of an unpleasant roommate (without committing a crime).
  • In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.
  • Work expands to fill the time available.
  • Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.
  • When life throws you lemons, make lemonade.
  • When everything is coming your way, you are in the wrong lane.
  • The things I’ve learnt at school: How to whisper/ How to text without looking/ How to look as if I am paying attention.
  • When someone in class reminds the teacher about homework.
  • If there’s one thing school’s taught me, it’s never to touch the underside of a desk.
  • Punishment: Getting your seat changed for talking too much. Solution: …
  • When my substitute teacher is meaner than your regular teacher.
  • Trying to stay awake at school is one of the hardest things on earth.
  • The awkward moment when you are the only one who did homework.
  • Dear Teacher, I talk to everyone, so moving my seat won’t help.
  • That feeling of awesomeness when you prove your teacher wrong.
  • In boring classes, I improve my art skills.
  • When your teacher says “Get out”, it means you won the argument.
  • Switching names with your best friend when there’s a substitute teacher.
  • That moment in class when you just want to scream “No one cares!”
  • Mondays should be banned.
  • Life should come with background music.
  • Before Facebook, I had a life.
  • All drivers were once pedestrians.
  • When you get older, you will regret not taking all those naps as a child.
  • Why does math feel like mental abuse to humans?
  • Vegetables have feelings – stop carrot cruelty.
  • How to survive a hippopotamus attack like a pro.
  • The importance of wearing pajamas all day, every day.
  • How to deny reality?
  • Things to do in a traffic jam.
  • My most profitable mistake.
  • The ugliest fashions of today.
  • Common sense is a flower that doesn’t grow in everyone’s garden.
  • I am online, therefore I exist.
  • The art of being annoying.
  • How to save paper towels?
  • Evidence that cats believe we are their slaves.
  • Soup consumption frequency as a function of moustache style.
  • Relationship between GPS users and flat-earthers is complex.
  • How to be lazy like a pro?
  • Why does everyone need a favorite kind of problem?
  • Because of e-books, people cannot use the excuse that reading leads to deforestation.
  • How to look smarter than you are?
  • Behind every man, there is a woman rolling her eyes.
  • True friendships survive auto-correction mistakes.
  • If you want to know the truth about yourself, have a kid.
  • Why do hiccups occur and how to stop them?
  • In order to understand what life is all about, you should hang out with a 3-year-old.
  • You are not weird; you are just a limited edition.
  • Having a third arm is better than a third leg.
  • How to confuse a telemarketer?
  • Totally useless professions.
  • Cinderella is proof that a new pair of shoes can change your life.
  • Why I don’t want to be a millionaire.
  • How to win an argument when you know that you are wrong?
  • Useless things everyone has in their house.
  • Being lazy enhances your productivity.
  • The worst advice you have given to a friend.
  • The best part about taking a selfie.
  • If you were a farm animal, who would you be?
  • The weirdest smell you have ever smelled/eaten.
  • The weirdest thing you are afraid of.
  • What would be the absolute worst name that you could give your child?
  • What is something that hasn’t happened yet, but would certainly break the internet?
  • What is the silliest way that you’ve been injured?
  • What old person tendencies do you have?
  • What was your worst fashion disaster?
  • If you could start a secret society what would it be called?
  • If the color blue had a smell, what would it smell like?
  • If you were arrested with no explanation, what would your friends assume you had done?
  • Sum up the internet in one sentence.
  • How many chickens would it take to kill an elephant?
  • If peanut butter wasn’t called peanut butter, what would it be called?
  • The worst “buy one, get one free” sale of all time.
  • If you could be a colour, what colour would you be?
  • How would you get to the centre of the Earth?
  • England and the USA are two countries divided by a common language.
  • A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die in his care.
  • Those who can – do, those who can’t – teach.
  • The trouble with her is that she has the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
  • We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
  • I am hungry, therefore I am.
  • I am not messy, I am organisationally challenged.
  • Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
  • You can lead a man up to university, but you can’t make him think.
  • The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go worng goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
  • Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
  • You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
  • I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.
  • I am giving you the right answers – you are asking the wrong questions.
  • I hate television when it writes stuff at you.
  • Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said: Cigarettes contain fat.
  • Men – because of a tragic genetic flaw – cannot see dirt until there is enough of it to support agriculture.
  • The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
  • It’s money – I remember it from when I was single.
  • I don’t know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
  • Men are born ignorant, not stupid – they are made stupid by education.
  • One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
  • He was so learned that he could name a horse in five languages and so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
  • Never confuse motion with action.
  • My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
  • Certainly I am innocent, Edith, but of what?
  • Listen, Edith, I know you are singing, you know you are singing, but the neighbours may think I am torturing you.
  • Aquaintance – someone you know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
  • Bore – a person who talks when you want him to listen.
  • Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
  • I love my country too much to be a nationalist.
  • Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
  • The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
  • Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.
  • If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner’s silence.
  • I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
  • It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
  • When a subject becomes totally obsolete, we make it a required course.
  • Success is getting what you want, happiness is liking what you get.