Day 5 of One Funny Line 2025: Final Day!

Write a funny animal joke or a line for the New Yorker caption contest

Welcome to day 5, the final day of the challenge (and happy season 2 release day for Severance to those who celebrate).

Today, you have two potential options for prompts:

Prompt 1:

Write a funny line about an animal. Some ideas:

• Write about something funny your pet does.

• Describe an animal with a funny metaphor.

• Make up a fake fact about an animal (like these ones for birds or possums)

• Think of a fake collective noun for a group of animals (e.g. A group of squirrels is called a …)

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Prompt 2:

Think of a funny line for this week’s New Yorker Caption contest. Some tips in this piece might help.

And if you win the contest with your entry, don’t forget to mention me in your acceptance speech.

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And that’s a wrap on this edition of the One Funny Line challenge. Hope you got some good lines or ideas.

If you are looking for more resources on writing humor, you can find some here and if you are looking for a list of places to submit humor writing, I’ve got one here.

I am currently thinking of doing another (slightly different) humor writing challenge in April for National Humor Month, so look out for more details on that in the future.

Otherwise, hope you all have a good weekend, and thanks for joining in.

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Please just keep any comments/jokes shared in the comments or the Humor Me chat appropriate for the general audience doing the challenge. I reserve the right to delete anything offensive or skeevy.

Otherwise, have fun!

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