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Bad kids jokes

A joke archive where the punchlines wander off and become the joke

Kids Write Jokes preserves children's joke attempts in their original, gloriously wobbly form: fractured puns, abrupt anti-jokes, spelling adventures, and answers that seem to arrive from another planet. The Tumblr feed is free to browse and deep enough for a quick scroll or a long dive, although its newest visible front-page posts are currently labeled three years old.

What is Bad kids jokes?

This is a chronological Tumblr archive built from tiny text posts, each one presenting a child's attempt at comedy without sanding away its spelling, punctuation, or sideways logic. The visible first page alone moves from a spider with fizzing feet to a business shoe looking for work, with knock-knock detours and wildly literal answers in between. Tags and note counts sit beneath each entry, while an Older link opens the door to a feed labeled as 63 pages deep. The pleasure is not simply that the jokes are bad. It is watching familiar comic machinery get assembled with one wheel upside down, then somehow roll straight into something stranger and funnier.

What you can do there

  • Read children's joke submissions
  • Browse older pages

Why we picked it

Most joke collections polish every line until the setup and punchline click into place. Kids Write Jokes keeps the charming misfires: the missing connective tissue, the unnecessary explanation, and the answer that obeys a private law of physics. That gives the archive a voice no professional gag book could manufacture, and even a two-minute visit usually produces at least one sentence worth carrying around all day.

How to get the most from it

Read in small batches and resist the urge to repair the jokes in your head. The odd wording is half the point. When the front page runs out, use the Older link and let the archive's 63-page label turn a quick visit into a gentle excavation. Individual posts also have their own public Tumblr pages when one deserves to be saved or shared.

Good to know

The blog presents these as genuine submissions by children, and the related book publisher describes the moderator as anonymous; individual authorship was not independently established. Spelling and capitalization are part of the material. Expect toilet humor, occasional grown-up references, and a front page whose newest visible entries are labeled three years old, so this currently works better as an archive than as a daily feed.

Who made it, and when?

The earliest supported launch date we found is 2012.

Reviewed by Site Stumble editorial

Last editorial review: August 22, 2026. Our notes combine direct observation, first-party information when available, and independent research.

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