Pun: The use of homophones or words that are similar in other ways in order to produce a humorous effect
Class activity: Choose a pun from the list and make a cartoon showing the double meaning in the joke.
1. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
2. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
3. He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.
4. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was a nurse said 'No change yet'.
5. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
6. What did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing - but it let out a little whine.
7. As the shoe said to the hat, 'You go on ahead, and I'll follow on foot'.
8. Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
9. Did you hear about the guy who got hit in the head with a can of soda? He was lucky it was a soft drink.
10. When William joined the army he disliked the phrase 'fire at will'.
11. Cartoonist found dead in home. Details are sketchy.
12. There was once a cross-eyed teacher who couldn't control his pupils.
13. A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.
15. A prisoner's favorite punctuation mark is the period. It marks the end of his sentence.
16. He didn't tell his mother that he ate some glue. His lips were sealed.
17. A baker stopped making donuts after he got tired of the hole thing.
18. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.
19. The magician got so mad he pulled his hare out.
20. In the room the curtains were drawn, but the rest of the furniture was real.
21. I used to be a tap dancer until I fell in the sink.
22. He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
23. Math teachers have lots of problems.
24. If you leave alphabet soup on the stove and go out, it could spell disaster.
25. How do farmers make crop circles? With a protractor.
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