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Every No. 1 "salaryman senryu" in Japan (1991–2024)

1 まだ寝てる帰ってみればもう寝てる
2 『ゴハンよ』と呼ばれて行けばタマだった
3 いい家内 10年経ったらおっ家内

retro_nara ❤ 3 · ▲ 53 · 33 items

The best catchphrases and words of Chiquito de la Calzada

1 Fistro!
2 Sinner of the prairie
3 See you later, Lucas!

Andrea García Redondo ❤ 5 · ▲ 146 · 13 items

The funniest definitions from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary

1 Apologize: to lay the foundation for a future offense.
2 Admiration: our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
3 Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

yogi_sf ❤ 2 · ▲ 53 · 15 items

Every winner of the Funniest Joke of the Fringe, ranked

1 I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.
2 I was going to sail around the globe in the world's smallest ship, but I bottled it.
3 I thought the word 'Caesarean' began with the letter 'S' but when I looked in the dictionary, it was in the 'C' section.

Sam Quinn ❤ 3 · ▲ 71 · 15 items

The greatest Monty Python sketches and scenes

1 Dead Parrot sketch
2 The Ministry of Silly Walks
3 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Zoe Marshall ❤ 0 · ▲ 51 · 19 items

H. L. Mencken's most cutting quotes (with sources)

1 Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
2 The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.
3 Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

G. Hill ❤ 1 · ▲ 37 · 18 items

The best lines from Les Luthiers

1 Time is money, time is a peanut.
2 I knew it, but I wanted a second opinion.
3 The more years on your back, the harder it gets and the less you get lucky.

marcapaginas_baires ❤ 1 · ▲ 28 · 14 items

Frigyes Karinthy's funniest explanations of proverbs from his "Simple-Minded Lexicon"

1 All appearances deceive.
2 A barking dog doesn't bite.
3 Walk slowly and you will get further.

Juhász Nóra ❤ 2 · ▲ 24 · 15 items

Coluche's best lines

1 The hardest part was the end of the month, especially the last thirty days.
2 Frenchwomen, Frenchmen, this year was very good, next year will be worse.
3 I'm capable of the best and the worst, but it's at the worst that I'm the best.

Noémie Faure ❤ 0 · ▲ 24 · 16 items

Leo Longanesi's most ferocious one-liners

1 Our national flag should bear, in big letters: "I have a family."
2 Good for nothing, but capable of anything.
3 If there is one thing that works in Italy, it is disorder.

P. Rinaldi ❤ 0 · ▲ 21 · 18 items

Cantinflas's most famous lines

1 How did you say he said that you said?
2 There are moments in life that are truly momentary.
3 It's neither one thing nor the other, but quite the opposite.

detour_cancun ❤ 0 · ▲ 18 · 11 items

The wittiest aphorisms of Enrique Jardiel Poncela

1 There are two ways to achieve happiness: one is to play the idiot; the other is to be one.
2 Everyone pays attention to barometers, except the weather.
3 One is more a slave to the weak than to the strong.

Santiago Rodríguez Zapata ❤ 0 · ▲ 16 · 18 items

The best Loriot quotes and sketches

1 There used to be more tinsel.
2 A life without a pug is possible, but pointless.
3 Don't say anything now, Hildegard.

Jan Möller ❤ 0 · ▲ 15 · 13 items

Kurt Tucholsky's sharpest one-liners (with sources)

1 Owing to unfavourable weather, the German revolution took place in music.
2 You can also do something wrong for twenty years.
3 We lay on the meadow and let our souls dangle.

laeufer.gemuetlich ❤ 0 · ▲ 4 · 18 items