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Funny Websites

Hand-picked sites whose only purpose is making you laugh. Satire, comics, parody, and the kind of single-joke gag pages that still load fifteen years later.

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Funny websites — the kind that earn their tab and don't ask for an email first. We've curated them at BoredomBash since 2013. Below are the genuinely good ones, sorted by how long you've got: under two minutes, under fifteen, and the long-evening webcomic archive dives that swallow a Sunday. The Onion, xkcd, ClickHole, Eelslap, SMBC, Reductress — they're all here. No App Store. No installs. No accounts. Pick what fits your mood, or hit the big yellow Surprise Me button bottom-right and we'll pick something for you. We've kept the bloated ad-stuffed listicle aggregators off the page. These are the comedy sites that have survived twenty-plus years of internet churn for a reason.

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Editorial criteria

Why these made the cut.

Each site on this page passed four tests. It's actually funny — the dominant filter, and where most candidates fall over. Most submissions are sites trying to be funny — that's not the same thing. The bar is "this made us laugh out loud at least once during review." Subjective, yes; that's how editorial works. It has staying power — a comedy site needs an archive deep enough that one click pulls you in for ten minutes, not thirty seconds. Single-page joke sites earn their place if the joke is genuinely strong (Eelslap, Endless Horse, Don't Even Reply), but most entries here have hundreds or thousands of items in their back catalog.

It loads fast with no signup — comedy that requires an email is comedy that loses the joke. We cut sites with paywalls, mandatory accounts, or aggressive interstitials. It still works in 2026 — comedy sites die. Hosts get retired, hobby projects abandoned, brands shuttered. We sweep the directory four times a year; entries that 404, get acquired and rebranded into something different, or swap free content for paywalls get retired and replaced.

For two minutes

Best for the two-minute laugh.

For the meeting gap, the elevator ride, the moment you need to break a streak of bad news with something stupid. These deliver in under two minutes and let you close the tab with no commitment.

Eelslap — drag your mouse to make a fish slap a man's face. The genre's purest one-second joke. Loops forever. Has been online and unchanged since 2008.

Endless Horse — a horse with infinitely long legs. Scroll. Keep scrolling. The joke gets funnier the longer you commit. By the eighth scroll you'll be laughing at yourself.

The Onion homepage — read the top three headlines, close the tab, you're done. The Onion's headline-only format is the genre's masterclass; Onion writers spend more time on the headline than the article and it shows.

FML — read four short user-submitted misfortunes from the daily list. Two minutes, four laughs, back to work.

xkcd — one comic. Hover for the alt-text bonus. Ninety seconds end-to-end.

For more in this register, the Parodies & Gags and Useless Websites categories deliver reliably.

    For fifteen minutes

    Best for the fifteen-minute break.

    For the lunch break, the post-meeting decompression, the train ride home — sites where you can actually settle in and read a few things back-to-back:

    The Onion — front page plus three articles. About 12 minutes for the full reading. The longer pieces are usually funnier than the headline implies.

    ClickHole — one to three articles in fifteen minutes. The format-parody bits ("16 Things Every '90s Kid Will Recognize") are at their best when you commit to reading them straight.

    Reductress — women's-magazine satire. Fifteen minutes is enough for four headlines and one full article. The headlines do most of the work; the bodies underline the joke.

    The Hard Times — punk and music-scene satire since 2014. Same format as The Onion but for a specific subculture. Even if you're not in that subculture, the headlines work.

    Awkward Family Photos — scroll the recent submissions. Vintage and modern photos sorted by category. Fifteen minutes is twenty photos and three out-loud laughs.

    For more in this register, the Internet Classics category covers the historical archive.

      For the webcomic dive

      Best for the long evening.

      For the Sunday afternoon, the no-sleep night, or any time you've decided to lose four hours on purpose. These reward the time investment they ask for.

      xkcd archive — Randall Munroe has been posting Mon-Wed-Fri since 2005, putting the archive at over 2,800 strips. Click the random button until you remember it's three a.m.

      Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal — Zach Weinersmith's daily comic since 2002. Every strip has a hidden second punchline behind the red button under the comic; the bonus panel doubles the reading time and is often funnier than the strip.

      The Oatmeal — Matthew Inman's long-form illustrated essays. One essay can take 20 minutes; the back catalog is dozens. The deep cuts on grammar, mantis shrimp, and how to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you are widely shared for a reason.

      Cyanide & Happiness — daily four-panel since 2004. Reliably willing to cross lines other comics will not. The full archive is over 6,000 strips. Casual NSFW risk; not safe in a glass-walled office.

      Existential Comics — philosophy webcomics. Each strip is a joke about Kant, Sartre, or Heidegger. Smarter than it has any right to be. Useful as a pretext for going back and reading the philosophers you skipped in college.

      Don't Even Reply — the long-running archive of email replies sent to Craigslist personals and missed connections. The author's commitment to the absurd over years and years is the joke.

      For more long-form humor, the Time Wasters category covers things that take an hour.

        Best satirical news websites

        The satirical news canon.

        Satirical news is a subgenre of funny websites large enough to deserve its own treatment. The major sites still actively publishing in 2026:

        The Onion — the genre's founder. Print run from 1988, online since 1996. Three ownership changes, full survival. Headline-led format, occasional long-form features. Free to read with ads.

        ClickHole — launched in 2014 by The Onion as a parody of BuzzFeed-era viral content. Acquired in 2020 by employee-owned Cards Against Humanity, now operates independently. Specializes in parodies of the listicle, quiz, and viral-video formats.

        Reductress — women's-magazine satire since 2013. Run by Beth Newell and Sarah Pappalardo. Parodies of Cosmo, Glamour, and the broader self-improvement-content economy.

        The Hard Times — punk and music-scene satire. Launched as a hardcore-punk-scene satire site, expanded to broader music coverage. Owned by SpinMedia (Spin Magazine).

        Hard Drive — gaming satire. The Onion of game reviews. Launched 2018, deeply funny if you've ever played a video game and hated yourself afterward.

        The Betoota Advocate — Australian regional news satire. The fictional Betoota is a remote Queensland town and the Advocate is its small-town paper. Has built a substantial real audience by parodying small-town reporting with surprising precision.

        The Beaverton — Canadian satirical news. Same format, Canadian-specific. Now adapted into a TV show.

        The satirical-news genre survived the death of print, the rise of social media, three rounds of platform acquihires, and most of journalism itself. The sites above are the ones still publishing, still funny, and still updating in 2026.

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        Definition · what counts as a funny website What funny websites means in 2026. Read more

        A funny website, in the sense that matters here, is a site whose primary purpose is to be funny — not a personal blog with humor in it, not a news site with a humor column, not a YouTube channel with a website attached. The funny part has to be the point.

        The category breaks into roughly five formats. Satirical publications — The Onion, ClickHole, Reductress, The Hard Times, Hard Drive, The Betoota Advocate, The Beaverton — fake-news format, headline-led, often with full article bodies. Webcomics — xkcd, SMBC, Cyanide & Happiness, The Oatmeal, Toothpaste For Dinner, Existential Comics, False Knees — illustrated humor with deep archives. User-submitted aggregators — FML, Awkward Family Photos, Damn You Auto Correct — collect short submissions sorted into hall-of-fame collections. Long-form humor essays — McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Onion's slower features, The Oatmeal's long pieces — read more like literary humor than viral content. Single-purpose joke sites — Eelslap, Endless Horse, Don't Even Reply, Hampsterdance — one joke per URL, executed perfectly enough to keep working twenty years later.

        This page mixes all five. Whichever fits your mood, the right tab is one click away. We've left off the bigger meme aggregators (9GAG, iFunny, Bored Panda) — they have more volume but the curation is thin and the ads are aggressive. The list at the top of the page rotates monthly based on click data; what's at the top of the featured grid is what's currently most-clicked.

        Cultural context A short history of internet humor. Read more

        Funny websites as a genre map directly onto the history of the web itself. The earliest era — 1995 to 2001 — was the joke-page era: single-page gags hosted on GeoCities or university servers, weird domain names, no plan. Most are gone. A handful (Hampsterdance, the original Zombo.com) survived as cultural reference points. The Onion started its print run in 1988 and went online in 1996, making it the genre's longest-running continuous publication.

        The 2003–2009 stretch was the webcomic boom. xkcd launched in 2005, SMBC in 2002, The Oatmeal in 2009. Cyanide & Happiness's first strip dropped in 2005. The format worked because RSS readers and bookmarks were how people found content — webcomics rewarded daily check-ins.

        Around 2008 the platforms ate the publishing layer. FML (2008), Awkward Family Photos (2009), and the meme aggregators kicked off the user-submitted era. ClickHole launched in 2014 as The Onion's BuzzFeed parody — itself a parody of the era's content economics. Reductress, the women's-magazine satire, started 2013. The Hard Times (punk satire, 2014) and Hard Drive (gaming satire, 2018) followed the format into specific subcultures.

        The 2018–present era is the strangest. Twitter and Reddit absorbed most casual humor traffic, but the survivors of the previous eras — the ones with their own sites and their own audiences — kept publishing. New entrants are rare and weird (single-purpose joke sites like Eelslap, Endless Horse). The dynamic now is preservation as much as discovery — keeping the genre's history accessible while the platforms churn through ownership changes.

        What ended up on this page is everything still worth a tab in 2026.

        Variants · types of funny website Webcomics, satire, and the rest. Read more

        Best webcomics. The webcomic genre is the deepest archive in funny-website territory. The picks: xkcd for science and code humor, SMBC for philosophy and existential comedy, The Oatmeal for long-form illustrated essays, Cyanide & Happiness for dark four-panel humor, Existential Comics for philosophy bits, False Knees for gentle absurdism with birds, and Toothpaste For Dinner for office-dread humor. All free, all updating, deep archives in every case.

        Best parody and meme sites. If satire is the elevated cousin of memes, parody and joke sites sit somewhere in between: ClickHole for format parody, Reductress for magazine parody, Eelslap and Endless Horse for one-joke sites, and the broader Parodies & Gags category for the deeper cuts.

        Best long-form humor. For when the headline isn't enough: McSweeney's Internet Tendency is the literary-humor home base. Many of the funniest essayists working today have published there. Defector for sports-adjacent funny writing. The Onion's longer features. The Oatmeal's deep dives.

        Best aggregators. User-submitted humor sites: FML for short complaints, Awkward Family Photos for the photo archive, Damn You Auto Correct for the texting-accident hall of fame.

        Editorial standards How we curate. Read more

        This page gets reviewed once a quarter. Bot-tracked link checks run nightly. Reader submissions arrive through /submit/; we accept around three a month for the funny cluster — higher acceptance than other categories because the bar is "did it make us laugh" rather than something more mechanical. Old entries get retired when the host site dies, when the funny content moves behind a paywall, or when the brand pivots away from comedy. We don't take paid placements; nothing on this list paid to be here. The bar for inclusion is "would we genuinely recommend this to a friend who's bored, in the next two minutes, by name?" — which excludes most listicle filler.

        FAQ · People also ask

        Funny websites · the questions Google sees.

        What are the funniest websites?

        By our editorial standards, the longest-running and most consistently funny sites are The Onion (satirical news, since 1988), xkcd (webcomics, since 2005), Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (webcomics, since 2002), The Oatmeal (long-form illustrated humor), and ClickHole (viral-content parody). The five represent the genre's strongest claims to category-defining status. "Funniest" is subjective, but those are the ones reliably named first by people who care about internet humor.

        What are the best satirical news websites?

        The major satirical news sites still publishing in 2026 are The Onion (general satirical news, the genre's founder), ClickHole (viral-content parody), Reductress (women's-magazine satire), The Hard Times (punk and music-scene satire), Hard Drive (gaming satire), The Betoota Advocate (Australian regional news satire), and The Beaverton (Canadian satirical news). All free, all updating, all link-checked nightly.

        What are the best webcomic websites?

        The five most-referenced webcomics with the deepest archives: xkcd (since 2005, stick figures, science and code humor), Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (since 2002, daily, with red-button bonus panels), The Oatmeal (long-form illustrated essays), Cyanide & Happiness (since 2005, dark humor four-panel), and False Knees (illustrated birds, gentle absurdism). All free, all updating, all rewarding the back-catalog dive.

        What's a website I can go on when I need to laugh?

        For a fast laugh in under two minutes: Eelslap (one-page joke), Endless Horse (visual gag), FML (read four user-submitted misfortunes), xkcd (one comic, hover for the alt-text), or The Onion homepage (read the headlines, close the tab). All five are designed for a one-and-done laugh on the way to your next meeting.

        Are funny websites safe to visit?

        The funny websites in this directory are safe — they don't ask for credentials, don't push downloads, and have been around long enough that any malicious behavior would be well-known by now. Use the usual caution with any unfamiliar site: don't enter passwords, don't download files, don't click ad-styled overlays. Every site on this page has been manually reviewed before inclusion.

        Are there funny websites without ads?

        Most funny websites carry ads — they're how the genre survives. The notable exceptions are xkcd (no ads, runs on store sales), SMBC (no ads on the site, supported by book sales), and most of the single-purpose joke sites in this category (Eelslap, Endless Horse, Don't Even Reply — too small to monetize). The big publications all run ads but we've excluded any with intrusive ad loads.

        What was the first funny website?

        The first widely-known funny website was probably Hampsterdance (1998 — animated hamsters dancing to a sped-up song). The first satirical news site online was The Onion, which launched its digital edition in 1996 (the print paper had been running since 1988). Single-page joke sites and webcomics both predate them in offline form, but the consensus "first funny website" is Hampsterdance for the format and The Onion for the publication.

        Is The Onion still funny?

        Yes, by the consensus of most readers and the directory's own editorial review. The Onion has been through three ownership changes (most recently acquired by Global Tetrahedron LLC in 2024) and the editorial voice has stayed remarkably consistent across all of them. Long-running headline-only comedy depends on the writers more than the structure, and The Onion has retained the writing room across acquisitions. Some readers find later eras less sharp than the early 2000s peak, but new readers consistently rate the current site highly.

        What's the difference between The Onion, Reductress, and ClickHole?

        They're different publications targeting different beats. The Onion (1988) is general satirical news. ClickHole (2014) was originally launched by The Onion as a parody of BuzzFeed-era viral content but became independent in 2020 (acquired by employee-owned Cards Against Humanity). Reductress (2013) parodies women's magazines specifically. Same headline-led format, different parody targets.

        Are funny websites still relevant in the era of TikTok and Reddit?

        Less central than they were, more durable than people give them credit for. TikTok and Reddit have most of the casual humor traffic now, but the dedicated funny sites still publishing in 2026 — The Onion, xkcd, ClickHole, McSweeney's, Reductress — have audiences that came back even after social platforms fragmented. Webcomic archives, satirical-news sites, and long-form humor essays don't fit the social-feed format; they need their own homes. The genre is smaller than the 2009 peak but more durable than predicted.

        Are funny websites good for kids?

        Some are, some aren't. xkcd (mostly), SMBC (mostly), False Knees, and Eelslap are kid-friendly. The Onion has occasional adult themes; ClickHole has occasional crude humor; Cyanide & Happiness regularly has dark and NSFW content; FML and Don't Even Reply contain profanity. The curation isn't aimed at children. For a kids-focused humor experience, sites like the BBC's CBBC and the kids' content on National Geographic Kids are dedicated to that audience.

        Or hit Surprise Me.

        Land on a random funny website from the directory. Same idea, less choosing. The full Funny Websites category has all of them.

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