The coronavirus pandemic is still working its way around the world but loads of countries are loosening lockdown regulations, so we’re stuck in a weird and confusing situation (we blame 2020). In times like these, a dose of good humor is great for recharging your batteries—laughter helps us see the positives in tough situations like the one we’re in now.
We want to keep your spirits up and to boost your mood this week, so Bored Panda has collected the freshest and funniest coronavirus jokes. Scroll down, upvote your faves, and let us know in the comments which jokes you loved the most and why. We’re huge fans of the corona jokes that people made during the quarantine, so be sure to check our previous posts here, here, and here. Now that’s a lot of jokes!
There are 3 camps of people when you ask whether it’s okay to make coronavirus jokes. There are those who think that comedy is incredibly important during difficult times. There are those who think that we shouldn’t joke about sensitive topics. Lastly, there are those in the middle who believe that humor has a place during the pandemic but that we shouldn’t overstep our bounds. But what do comedy professionals and experts have to say about this? Scroll down for Bored Panda's interview with comedy writer and comedian Ariane Sherine.
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Or Who Think Mild Inconvenience Is Same As Suffering
*boom*
"Much very good information"? All those Nigerian Prince's emails had better English.
That Analogy Is Perfect
"I think it’s essential to joke about coronavirus because humor is a release mechanism to help us cope during dark times," Ariane told Bored Panda.
"Shared humor also helps us bond with one another. Lockdown would be very gloomy indeed if we couldn’t laugh about our predicament!" she added.
Ariane also told us that her go-to funny movie during the lockdown is 13 Going on 30 (released in 2004 and starring Jennifer Garner). "It’s really heartwarming and the Thriller scene is hilarious. It always lifts my spirits when I’m feeling low," the comedy writer said.
Still Waits
Literally Just This One Thing
Why We Get So Mad About Antivaxxers And Corona Conspiracy-Theorists
Meanwhile, according to Dr. Peter McGraw who heads the University of Colorado Boulder’s Humor Research Lab, if we’re constantly plugged into the newsfeed and frantically search for the latest breaking news about the virus, this just increases the scariness of the pandemic.
“A bit of comedy—whether it be through your Instagram feed, through a Netflix comedy special, or calling up your friend who's pretty good at making jokes in the face of tragedy—is not only a good way to distract yourself from what's going on, but it's also a good way to delight yourself,” Dr. McGraw said. So we shouldn’t feel guilty for laughing. After all, the alternative is to be in a constant state of low-key panic. And that’s not helping anybody: not your family, not your friends, and least of all you.
McGraw stressed that social media “is a mess” during the lockdown, so it’s best to unplug and unwind. Preferably, with a bunch of funny movies, comedy stand-up shows, and books that make you chuckle. “Take a little bit of a break. You certainly deserve it."
Found At A Park In Brooklyn, NYC
I wonder why anyone wouldn't like Jim Carrey? He was very good as "The Mask"
Five Minutes
Truth About Introverts
No Mask, No Service.
Wait, so this guy is asking to see a medical professional, whilst totally disregarding the advice of medical professionals? I am so very confused.
2020
Makes Sense
Ok but fun fact, panda's have one of the strongest jaws in the animal kingdom! Also they are the cutest in the animal kingdom!
Why Haven't The Priests And Pastors Of America Saved Us Yet? God Is Supposedly "Powerful "
Also why didn’t psychics step in before this pandemic actually became a pandemic or where to find missing people etc. Wait I know why, because it is all a load of hogwash.
People Are Like
I Thought This Was A Free Country
Just Sayin'
More Salty Than The Great Salt Lake
Not Very Flattering
Oh yes! I do hope we get several murder plots, that will be interesting.
Nah, Whole Planet's Countries, Media, Scientists, Citizens Had A Meeting And Decided To Troll America
Ghost Stories For Cats
What Do You Want?
My Bad
I Can't Take Fallout Seriously Anymore
Makes Sense
I Demand To Speak To The County's Manager
I'd pay to see that movie SPACE KAREN: "on a quest to see all the managers in the universe"
Lunch In Locker
Watching My Eyes Move
God Ain't Got Nothing To Do With It
I feel for those kids having parents teaching them c**p like that.
Exactly! They seem to forget about the Virginia pastor that died a couple of weeks ago said the same, exact thing. Now the only thing he is “covered” with is 6 feet of dirt. Don’t be dumb, people.
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Counterpoint: Jesus said to him, “On the other hand, it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.'" Matthew 4:7. Seems pretty clear. Maybe these people should, I don't know....read the Bible?
The bible is a huge book full of contradictions. The bible says prayer alone can actually move mountains (Matthew 17:20). The bible says multiple times that if you pray in god's name, you will get anything you want. The bible is also deeply hypocritical. There are parts of the bible where god says, test all of the other gods (other gods?), but don't test me.
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Remove all the locks from your doors because God's got you covered. Give away all your guns because God's got you covered. Don't vaccinate your kids or get a flu shot because God's got you covered.
I believe God made scientists to find a vaccine, people to make PPE so we can protect ourselves, nurses and doctors to care for those who are ill, leaders who are trying to do their best for their countries, essential workers who keep the economy ticking over. He also gave people free will- they really are abusing it in so many cases, and making others suffer in turn.
If god created the natural world, and has a divine plan, then everything goes according to his plan and he is responsible for everything. If god created everything, then he created killer, torturous diseases. If he created everything, that includes our sun, our source of heat and light that gives many people skin cancer. If this god existed, he would be unintelligent and or deeply evil. There are certain worms in nature that gestate and come out of human eyeballs in a painfully torturous way. Talk to the children suffering from the natural world that your god created and tell them your god is good. Do you have any idea how painful the guinea worm is when it comes out of the foot of a human child? The free will argument is b******t. Do you believe there is a heaven and free will in it?
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“God“ apparently doesn't care about all those people dying from cancer, ebola, AIDS and wars. So why would he care about Corona?
Yeah. And where is this god during genocides? The holocaust? He is the most evil character in all of fiction.
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Children like her may be ok despite their parents. I was raised by anti-education, very stupid, very racist people. For some reason I never once bought into any of it. I wanted nothing more than to go to college, and cut all ties with them when I was seventeen. I'm an old woman now, and only wish I had left earlier.
"I sent you two boats and a helicopter, what else do you want?" [Old joke.]
Set a building on fire while crashing in it with a car that's going 120 miles an hour holding a gun to your head... don't worry one bit, God's got you covered!!
There are some people that can’t wear masks, because of asthma etc. I’m one of those people, but lucky enough not to need to go out as I live with family members who do go out. But for those who have to go out, like those who live by themselves To get groceries etc, and can’t wear masks, they’re vulnerable and being put at risk by ignorant people who refuse to wear a mask in shops. How is helping to protect people by wearing a small face covering infringing on your human rights?
This is the same reason Jesus didn't jump off a cliff when Satan told him to, even though he knew God would protect him.
If they believe God has them "covered" so thoroughly, why are they wearing clothes? Or glasses?
God is thinking " How can I protect all these people, I cannot be everywhere... Oh, let's give them some masks, and some guidelines how to protect themselves"
If god created the natural world, and has a divine plan, then everything goes according to his plan and he is responsible for everything. If god created everything, then he created killer, torturous diseases. If he created everything, that includes our sun, our source of heat and light that gives many people skin cancer. If this god existed, he would be unintelligent and or deeply evil. There are certain worms in nature that gestate and come out of human eyeballs in a painfully torturous way. Talk to the children suffering from the natural world that your god created and tell them your god is good. Do you have any idea how painful the guinea worm is when it comes out of the foot of a human child?
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Oh f**k no! I'm very pro-religious rights but I have ZERO tolerance for this mentality. It's how I got tuberculosis. A stupid "God over medicine" parent sent their UNVACCINATED child on a church mission in a disease infested part of Africa. God must have been on a coffee break during that trip because the kid came back with a s****y souvenir for 11 of her classmates.
Do you know what else "God" was on a break from? The internal wars in Iraq... Some people think it ended when Osama Bin Laden was killed. However, he gave this huge speech about his kingdom right before being hanged. Now everyone their sides, from against him to for him. But it was too late. America thought that they fixed the problem once and for all, but actually, another two groups started fighting. Shia and Sunni... These groups hated each other. Eventually people decided to leave. They needed separate passports to pretend they were both groups. If they had the wrong passport, they would be shot. Oh and then there was ISIS and they lined up military people to shoot them because they killed Osama Bin Laden. And this s**t lasted around 40 years or so... God was on an awfully long bathroom break.
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Kids are hardwired to believe what they are told by adults so they don't die. 'No! Fire hot!' that sort of thing. Wonder what their parents' excuse is?
I was 8 years old when I realised my parents didn't know what they were talking about a lot of the time.
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You don't need a parachute anymore to go sky diving.....cause gods got you :)
If God is truly such an all-powerful, omnipotent being do you really think he would care about the tiny monkeys that are always quarreling over territory with each other and using explosives
Do you know why "god" flooded the world thousands of years ago to kill everyone (but he still "loves" us) rather than using a "virus" instead? Because humans had no idea about viruses back then, so of course, neither did "god" ... because everything he ever said or did, primitive, ignorant humans "made up" from their imaginations. Got it? DUH!
They are the sort who probably think that this is a biblical pestilence destroying the unworthy unbelievers, so that's alright then
Guess their own kind are believing wrongly because they’re dying too.
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I once shared a ride with work colleagues on our way to a conference. The owner of the vehicle drove - too fast and with demonstrably inadequate driving skills. However, he did announce to those of us who were white-knuckled that "God will protect" us. Others insisted on driving for the return trip and we never ever let him drive again!
Living in the USA is like being trapped in a car full of drunk and high people who won’t let me drive.
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I seem to remember someone saying “God helps those who help themselves.”
That’s because they need some phrase to excuse why their m**********r god doesn’t do f*****g d**k for anyone.
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Science gave us masks. Thank scientists. If god created the natural world, then he created killer, torturous diseases. F**k that god.
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f**k...you're their GUARDIAN!!! Your sole job is to protect them from harm for christs sake!!!
Suppose if God has got you then you do not need a mask, you are dead
"God wants u to be safe" God made a huge virus and ruined 2020... do you know how many people died as a result of COVID? 2.66 million. But screw them, right? Because "God is trying to protect us".
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I want to, but we can't fly because I'm scared of getting sick
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Theres a story for this kind of situation. Basically, there is a man sick and dying. He's offered medication, several specialist doctors and special treatment. He refuses them all saying, "God will heal me". But he soon dies and when he stands before God he asks, "I don't understand. Why didn't you heal me?" And God says "I sent you medicine, doctors and special treatment, but you refused them all".
A story that semi-rational religious people use to make fun of totally irrational religious people that make other religious people look foolish, in order to defend their dumb religious beliefs...
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You will meet God a lot quicker if you don't use the brains he gave you.
I really wish that people would stop to think that any kind of God will take care of them. YOU take care of you by going to work (well, on a normal non pandemic), buying food, seeing doctors and so on. I can assure you that if you lay flat down in the middle of the desert, far from any other people and just wait, God will not help you.
Yes. These people do not believe God was covering anyone who died from VCOVID-19. Next stupid question?
I assure you, it is. Its a balance. From the universe. Its scientific.
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Vote for Trump because God has you covered. OH, that's RIGHT; He IS God!
10 bucks says they're homophobic racist Trump supporters who are anti-vaxxers
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i really hate these. I am a Christian yet i wear a mask and i wash my hands and do all the necessary stuff to protect my parents who are old-ish. True God protects us, but the Bible also warns not to "test the Lord your God". Which means you cannot jump out of a plane for fun and expect God to carry you on angel wings down to the ground.
There’s no god. Why would you believe a book that says not to question its validity?
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God only helps those who T R Y to help themselves and others besides, but N O T the lollies from the candy store....... just sayin'
Well, God did get them. Only not the way the sign carriers thought.
Melt down your guns because god's got you. Vaccinate your children because reason, curiosity and science, yes science, are gifts gods gave to mankind so they could leave us to self develop - like human beings were meant to do.
It's people that behave like this that make all Christians look stupid. I am a very faithful person and I will still listen to a doctor because that's what GOD would want me to do.
Matthew 4:5-7 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Really going to believe a document written over a hundred years after the fact by people that weren't there? And use this as a basis for medicine? Good luck there.
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Its as bad as my baby daddy telling my daughter, most men are put in jail by women...
I have a relative who is like this. I asked him If he truly believes this then why did he go to the hospital when he had a heart attack and had two stents put in. God has you covered right. I'm a Christian and most I know do not think like this.
These people have a very skewed understanding of Religion. Pretty sure that's not how it works.
Religion doesn’t work as anything other than a tool to control minds.
Load More Replies... As a Christian, I'd like to point out a couple of things. 1) God uses human things like modern medicine, and 2) Christians are explicitly commanded in the Bible to obey those in authority. So, people who go against government commands clearly haven't read their Bible for a while. And I just remembered another thing. The apostle Paul also talked about how we can make personal lifestyle choices for ourselves, but if there are people in our community who are weaker, we must make exceptions so that we do not cause them to go wrong (this was in the context of what one may eat, but it applies to people acting decently to help protect vulnerable people).
On your second point: Paul's edicts are NOT the words of Jesus from the Gospel. Using epistles to command people to their detriment is in opposition to the words from Matthew. -Rev Dr M
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We are supposed to use our God-given common sense. Looks like either God didn't give common sense to some, or they rejected it.
It's like the flood thing where the guy dies and says to God where were you and he says I sent a radio broadcast a boat and a helicopter what more do you want? How much do these guys want God to tell them before they listen? I said wear masks, I said keep your distance, I pointed out people who died because they didn't listen. Don't blame me.
It’s just a story that religious people use to make fun of the worse religious people that make them all look stupid.
Load More Replies... Because it was a tool of control. That’s all religion is and ever was.
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Don't you all think that sometimes God sends other stuff to "get you covered?". For example, you're in a fire and all the fire trucks and cops come to save you and you just say, "God will save me!" and you die. Then you ask God in heaven, "Why didn't you save me?" I bet God would be like, " Bruh, I tried. I sent those cops and firetrucks! Why didn't you listen?" SO yeah that is basically what I'm saying to this post.
I believe in God and still follow the science of using masks and wearing seat belts. give your God given brains a chance people.
Why can't rational people criticize harmful and or false beliefs? The god of the bible was very evil. How many genocides did he commit? How many first born Egyptian sons did he murder? How can you worship a tribalistic god that was pleased when David brought him hundreds of bloody foreskins? The bible is a book with a talking donkey in it. Isn't that silly for anyone to believe, especially grown adults?
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Ouch!
Another Episode
Blursed Baptism
i don't know if this is how jesus christ envisioned baptisms in the future but I will say it adds a certain level of entertainment
My Project
Yeah
We all need to stop buying so much from Amazon. They have behaved disgracefully towards their worker during this pandemic.
I Miss Mu Son Attending Pre-School
I’m Bella’s mum. 8 weeks stuck in doors with Bella and my ears are bleeding.
Educashan
Well It Is North Dakota...
Aa 2021
As a recovering alcoholic 16 years I worry for members who can't go to meetings, I wonder how many have gone back drinking I know two have 😖
Wave
Because the other option is to say "SEE YAH F*****S" under your breath and the mic amplifies the sound so everyone hears
Living Off The Grid First Harvest, Planted My Tomato Plant On The First Day Of Lockdown.
Don't Be A Covidiot
Cooking Is Overrated
Accurate
Not Much Has Changed
Large Corporations will now see how much money they will be able to save from not renting office space. It will happen.
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To anyone that started watching the news in the UK since June 2016, only two things have ever happened; Brexit and Coronavirus.
Damn I thought it was smarch. Lousy smarch weather!
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I finally get the toilet paper thing. I sneezed in the market yesterday and three people sh*t their pants.😬
I think that Jonas Grinevičius knows even less about medicine than he does about writing... but he believes everything he sees on TV or reads in the paper, as long as it's coming from a fellow Liberal media junkie. Get informed: it's not conspiracy theory. The CDC has admitted that they overblew this whole thing, but the WHO has made a political issue out of it because they don't have the balls to admit that they were wrong... or their plan all along was to test their power over the rest of us, and like sheep we did exactly what they said to do and ruined most economies on earth. You people make me sick, sicker than Covid could EVER make me!
Good job China! "Let's release a virus that will kill off all those dumb arsed Americans and their r******d, orange, fearless leader but more intelligent people in other countries will survive". You nailed it!!
....You...clicked...on....the...page....
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"THE" test? There are hundreds of different tests, all testing different things. So what test do you mean exactly?
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To anyone that started watching the news in the UK since June 2016, only two things have ever happened; Brexit and Coronavirus.
Damn I thought it was smarch. Lousy smarch weather!
Load More Replies... I finally get the toilet paper thing. I sneezed in the market yesterday and three people sh*t their pants.😬
I think that Jonas Grinevičius knows even less about medicine than he does about writing... but he believes everything he sees on TV or reads in the paper, as long as it's coming from a fellow Liberal media junkie. Get informed: it's not conspiracy theory. The CDC has admitted that they overblew this whole thing, but the WHO has made a political issue out of it because they don't have the balls to admit that they were wrong... or their plan all along was to test their power over the rest of us, and like sheep we did exactly what they said to do and ruined most economies on earth. You people make me sick, sicker than Covid could EVER make me!
Good job China! "Let's release a virus that will kill off all those dumb arsed Americans and their r******d, orange, fearless leader but more intelligent people in other countries will survive". You nailed it!!
....You...clicked...on....the...page....
Load More Replies... "THE" test? There are hundreds of different tests, all testing different things. So what test do you mean exactly?
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