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Dark Humor: 1956

10 Curated Routines
1. Standard Satire
Political/Suez

"The Suez Crisis is a mess. It’s the only time in history people are fighting over a ditch that they’re too busy shooting each other to actually use."

2. Gallows Humor
Work/Time

"I told my doctor I wanted to live forever. He said, "Easy. Just get a job you hate. Every day will feel like an eternity.""

3. Suburban Dark
Tech/Marriage

"My neighbor just bought a new IBM computer. It takes up the whole basement and has 5 megabytes of memory. He uses it to calculate how much he regrets his marriage."

4. Era One-Liner
Music/Religion

"Rock and Roll is supposedly the devil’s music. If that’s true, the devil has surprisingly good rhythm and a very poor fashion sense."

5. The "Sick" Era
Abuse/Shock

""Mommy, why do I keep walking in circles?" "Shut up or I'll nail your other foot to the floor.""

6. Charles Addams Style
Nuclear/Social

"I went to a wedding where they threw rice. At least I think it was rice; it was hard to tell through the radiation suits."

7. Medical Wit
Medical/Incompetence

"A man wakes up from surgery and says, "Doctor, I can't feel my legs!" The doctor says, "I know, I had to amputate your arms.""

8. Social Commentary
Class Warfare

"The middle class is that group of people who are trying to live like the rich while worrying that the poor might catch up."

9. Existentialism
Self-Worth

"I’m not a total waste of space. I can always be used as a bad example."

10. Standard One-Liner
Marriage/Isolation

"My wife and I have the secret to a long marriage. Two times a week we go to a nice restaurant, a little wine, good food. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."

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