A dad joke is a short, clean, deliberately groan-inducing pun, usually built as a quick question-and-answer. This generator serves them from a curated library, so every result is the kind of wholesome wordplay you can read to a child, drop into a team chat, or use to warm up a chatbot. It keeps the punchline hidden until you ask, because a dad joke is only as good as the pause before the payoff.
How it works
The library stores each joke as a setup and a punchline tagged with a category. When you click, the tool builds a pool — either the whole library or just your chosen category — and selects a joke at random using the browser’s random number generator. If you already saw a joke, it re-rolls to avoid an immediate repeat whenever the pool is large enough. The setup appears first; the punchline is revealed only on the next click, giving you control over the comedic beat.
Tips and examples
Read the setup aloud, let it hang for a second, then reveal the punchline: “Why don’t eggs tell jokes? They’d crack each other up.” Use the category filter to match the room — science puns for a classroom, work puns for the office. Generate a few in a row to find one that fits, then copy it to share. The whole point is the groan, so lean into the delivery rather than apologising for it.