One Funny Line 2025 Day 3: Create a Funny Visual

Time to visualize a joke

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Today’s prompt involves writing a visual chart joke (so I’m officially declaring that one visual equates to one funny line).

You’ve probably seen some of these funny charts on social media on accounts like Liz and Mollie’s:

lizandmollie

A post shared by @lizandmollie

Or Matt Shirley’s:

mattsurelee

A post shared by @mattsurelee

Your prompt today is to create a funny chart.

You can hand-draw it or create it in a program like Microsoft Word or Canva. (But try not to do what I always do and spend too much time formatting it!)

Here are some ideas you could try:

• Take an existing joke you’ve written and convert it to chart form.

• Scroll through some funny chart accounts like the ones above and try to create a chart in the same format as one of theirs (e.g. a bar chart or pie chart like the ones above).

• Draw a simple Venn diagram and label two different things for each circle and then find the joke where the things overlap in the middle.

Here are some some examples of simple Venn diagram jokes:

michellerial

A post shared by @michellerial

steinbergdrawscartoons

A post shared by @steinbergdrawscartoons

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I believe that you can’t share visuals in comments on Substack but you should be able to share them in the chat.

So if you want to share your visuals, head over to the chat.

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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