Though anyone can tell a dad joke, even that simple action can be a dad joke. As Ripley pointed out: “Just remember if you tell one of these jokes and you’re not a dad, it’s a faux pa.” ...

These are the best dad jokes—they’re funny, corny (but not too corny), and will make anyone laugh. There are one-liners, dad jokes for kids, and more.

The term dad joke is credited to a June 20, 1987, editorial in the Gettysburg Times. Writer Jim Kalbaugh praised fathers’ telling of groan-inducing jokes to their children – or, importantly ...

It might be best to think of the dad joke not as a kind of joke but as a kind of performance, one that involves a teller – the dad – and an audience: his kids, friends of his kids, his spouse.

For these reasons, they don’t involve any sort of risk of offending people; the dad joke is almost the opposite of stand-up comedy. In addition to being “safe,” dad jokes are generally bad, lame, ...