One Funny Line Humor Challenge Wrap Up

Featuring some thoughts, jokes from you, and quick polls

Photo by Eddie Black on Unsplash

Thanks to everyone who participated in the first annual One Funny Line challenge (be it for one day or all 14 days). I got some good lines in, got back into more of a joke-writing habit, and even worked on a short humor piece that had been on the back burner for several months.

If you didn’t have time to participate you can always go back and check out all the prompts when you do have time or just use one when you are looking for some humor writing inspiration. Thank you to all the writers who contributed prompts!

I feel like it was a bit of a learning curve to figure out the best way to run the challenge and so I’m pondering what I might change if we do it in the future. If you participated and have a few minutes to answer the polls at the end of this post I would appreciate it.

Here are just *some* of the jokes that people shared during the challenge:

“Things that count as working from home: putting on my business sweats.”

Shelly Mazzanoble

“Parents driving through my kids’ school drop-off are like toddlers learning to share: no one listens, they only think about themselves, and sometimes there’s an accident.” John Sucich on Threads

“Academia: where you can write like no one’s reading.”

Mary Flannery

“Things that count as a cold plunge: Dipping my pinky in a martini.”

Christine Castigliano

“While I never forget a face, I have zero recall for names and my family is used to my tendency to refer to people by their attributes, such as "monobrow dude", or "McSpitty", or "Mr Garlic". Turns out it's a little problematic for my job in HR.”

Jenn Belden

“I’m not good at gardening. It makes me feel like a bad parent. Once the initial pride of planting my progeny subsides, I become far too comfortable with watching it die.”

Meg Oolders

“Stepping out into freezing temperatures in Phoenix is like eating exotic fruit – you have no idea where it came from but it can be quite refreshing once you get past the weird, bumpy skin.”

Robin LaVoie

“COVID is like ‘American Idol’: we may not talk about it as much now, but it's never going away.”

Elise Seyfried

“Sometimes, I wish there was a manual for being a parent. Something like the pamphlet that comes with IKEA furniture. Something I could thumb through, think I understand, and get frustrated with because I skipped a step on page 2.”

Walther Cantu

(who also rounded up all the jokes he wrote here

“Things that count as being social: I charged my phone.”

Good Humor by CK Steefel

“Sleep experts: Dark room, avoid caffeine, listen to white noise, no screens an hour before sleep

Me sitting in my bed with the light on, eating dark chocolate, hearing my 3yo roar like a dinosaur over the baby monitor, reading a 4000-reply Twitter argument: Sounds good”

Amy Colleen

on Twitter.

“Uggs are coming wayyy back in this year. I bought 3 pairs to wear during nuclear winter!” — Amos in the chat.

“Things that Count as Being Financially Responsible:

Taking Dry January to its limits—No alcohol, no humidifier, no water bottle, no moisturizing cream. Just your wilted corpse clinging to the $5.45 in your Venmo account.”

Ines Bellina

And you can still check out many more funny lines in the chat.

There were so many I did not manage to keep track of them all, and sharing jokes was not required, so I know there are many more good ones out there!

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If you have a few minutes to spare, please take the below polls to weigh in on future challenges:

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How did the challenge go for you? Feel free to chime in in the comments with thoughts or to elaborate on a poll response on what might work well in the future.

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