30 Responses To Jimmy Fallon Asking People To Share The Funniest And Weirdest Things Their Grandma Said
Jimmy Fallon is at it again. The host of The Tonight Show asked his viewers to share their best grandma quotes for the popular Hashtags segment, and they delivered. Big time.
From a 95-year-old nana meeting her grandchild's college friends to another one giving a man the finger because she didn't like the way he was driving, people flooded Fallon with the most memorable interactions they've had with their grams and it's kind of heartwarming to see that decades of life experience gives a refined flavor to your sense of humor as well as the confidence to flaunt it around.
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All my friends are the same age, but I'm the oldest mentally. I totally get this
My mom is 63. I'm 24. She says I keep her young. She thinks, she is 30-35yrs old. Which is annoying sometimes...
My grandmother used to be known as lead foot when driving. One day I was driving with her and we were talking about it and she said "I may be an old lady, doesn't mean I need to drive like one".
I'm 46 going on 21. I reckon if I make it to 80, I'll still have the mindset of my 21 year old self...
I have never been so childish like now... i am a grandmother and 54... I get it.
My grandmother looked over at my brother in his coffin, and said, "Well, it looks like he'd lost weight."
I can think of men in several age groups who would be in this boat. Consider themselves "real men" but are essentially being babysat by their partners.
This is why my sons know how to cook, clean, and do laundry, and my daughter will know how to change a tire, mow, do basic home repair. Basically things I think everyone should know how to do but gets pigeon-holed into gender stereotypes
Load More Replies...My great grandmother always told my great grandfather; «When one of us dies, I’m setting up a hotdog stand!»
Interestingly, we have evidence that suggests a person's sense of humor actually changes with age. Jennifer Stanley, a psychology professor at the University of Akron, gathered 30 young adults, 22 middle-aged people, and 29 senior citizens to watch a variety of different sitcom clips. The subjects rated how socially appropriate and how funny they found each clip. Stanley also used facial electromyography to determine how much the clips activated their smile muscles.
And just to be clear, "to be coded as a smile, there had to be an upturn of the corners of the lips plus a wrinkling of the crow’s feet at the corners of the eyes, or a pushing up of the cheeks."
My Grandma was 90 when she told me she had a dry vagina. We had been out celebrating her birthday and she was a bit drunk. She mentioned this as I was driving her home afterwards. I nearly wrecked the car and killed us both right there. To give the conversation some context, she was telling me about how getting old sucks - your knees are creaky, your eyes fail, and apparently your vagina dries out.....God help me! It's been years and I still haven't recovered from the trauma of hearing that. :)
Awesome! My boyfriend, now husband, took each other's virginity when he was 18 and I was 16. We just celebrated our 32 anniversary!
Isn’t that illegal? He was a legal adult and you were a minor.
Load More Replies...I f*****g LOVE old people. I wish to be so lucky to get old AF one day. Body only! 🫶🏾
She must have been my generation (mid-century modern)because we said that all the time.
The research found that older adults were much less likely to be fans of the aggressive style of humor—laughing at the expense of others. The 64-to-84-year-olds found a clip from The Office about 23 percent less funny than the middle-aged people did, and about 19 percent less funny than the 17-to-21-year-olds did.
Young adults were also more likely to smirk at the videos that showed self-deprecating humor, as exemplified in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm in which Larry pumps his waiter for information about how much his friend left as a tip.
The older participants, meanwhile, appreciated affiliative humor—the kind of jokes that bring people together through a funny or awkward situation. Stanley said a Golden Girls clip in which the women try to buy condoms and suffer an embarrassing price check is a good example.
Grandma took over driving when grandpa got too sick. Spending most of her time out in the countryside her lack of experience didn't matter much, but now and then she had to drive to the city. Once she called to tell me about one of her city trips, how she messed up in a roundabout and how another driver honked and yelled at her. I asked what she did then and she replied "I talked to him using the international sign language". Reader, she flipped him the bird.
My late mother was not one to use hand gestures and was disgusted, when anyone else did. She was a passenger, in my car, while we were riding around a mall parking lot. We came upon a 4-way stop. When it was my time to go, another car ran the stop sign, to the right, and nearly t-boned me, without so much as a tap on the brakes. After a harrowing few seconds, I turned left and was following the car. We came to a red traffic light and my dear mother put both elbows on the dashboard and gave the driver double birds! I had never seen her do that type of thing and I almost choked on my laughter.
What’s smart about that is, when pretty has turned into old, that sense of humor will still make you sought after. Cultivate your intelligence and wit, as well as your looks, when you’re young and you won’t suffer as much when you get old.
My father used to tell me "You're funny. But looks aren't everything."
Humor relies on the psychological idea of the benign violation: situations that are mostly wrong but also remain at least a little bit right.
But if something is too banal, it won’t be funny. Cross the line, though, and you’ve just offended the person. Michael Scott from The Office can apparently be a little too much for older viewers.
There was a part in Sleepless in Seattle where the waitress said, “I’m just sayin’, I wouldn’t kick this guy outta my bed for eating crackers.”
Yeah, but he’d have to be gorgeous, rich, really good in the sack, and totally besotted with me before I’d put up with sleeping on cracker crumbs.
Load More Replies...My grandma: "The only time I'd kick him out of bed would be if he wanted to do it on the floor" obviously there was a side to Grandma that I didn't know!
My grandma said the same thing! It mortified me every time ans all I could do is laugh with a beet red face
I'm 49 and my friends and I have used this for our entire lives. Does that mean I'm really old inside
There's an older country song that states this :) It's on youtube
I think it's better if it isn't. Sex is whatever. Letting someone eat food in your bed, though? That's a big deal. Especially something like crackers, that create a bunch of crumbs.
Load More Replies...So why don't grandmas find that "aggressive" humor funny you ask, young man? One explanation might be that the jokes in sitcoms have changed over time, and today's older people are just accustomed to a gentler kind of wit they were exposed to earlier.
It's very possible that people develop a greater emotional connection to a show from their own generation—Golden Girls is a much earlier show than either The Office or Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Hysterical way for grandma to call her out on it.
Load More Replies...Was probably his gf at the time. I would have dumped her for being rude to my grandma too
Load More Replies...WHAT? Abraham Lincoln wasn't a vampire hunter?! My life is a lie . . .
I don't think she was complaining about the supernatural parts tho. I'm hoping someone on here has read it and knows enough about Lincoln to weigh in on her review!
Load More Replies...I actually started the movie adaptation because I thought it looked terrible -- it's actually about slavery (the "vampires" being slave-traders and such), the only article I could find that had that take on it was here : https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/06/26/an-historians-take-on-abraham-lincoln-as-vampire-hunter
Utterly stupid movie (we thought it was a farce). We lasted maybe 10 minutes.
Stanley suspects a big reason for the generation gap in humor is that as people age, they experience a variety of physical and emotional setbacks—declining cognitive faculties, friends passing away—and the affiliative style of humor helps everyone deal with these losses.
“Other work has shown that the importance of having people close by you when you experience the physical and emotional loss of aging,” she told The Atlantic. “Maybe affiliative humor is more helpful for promoting that type of experience.”
Love it... that's the best possible thing that can happen with an open coffin
So been married to a musician for 22 years and we still have seperate bank accounts. Your grandma was very wise.
I hope by musician she meant "the band's gonna make it " variety and not the "its just a hobby of mine" type. Big difference between the two in my completely unbiased opinion
Yes. but even the ones where it's not a hobby - more don't make it than do.
Load More Replies...There's the joke: What's the difference between a musician and an extra-large pizza? Answer: The pizza can feed a family of four.
Load More Replies...Stanley’s study can be handy when we're at the table with our family, trying to get through dinner without making a scene.
To keep the peace with elders, it suggests, act a little more like Blanche Devereaux and a little less like the boorish branch manager of Dunder Mifflin.
Reminds me of the most flexible woman in Russia hiding in Switzerland.
In the name of the father, the son and the holy ghost, who eats the fastest gets the most, Amen!
Load More Replies...We sometimes said '2, 4, 6, 8, bog in, don't wait' but not in front of my grandparents!
The first time I'd eaten at a restaurant since COVID began, I forgot and sat on the seat! I'd forgotten how to use a public bathroom.
This is actually smart. Ice machines are supposed to be cleaned monthly. I've never met one that was.
Doesn't everybody do that? Who, outside the USA, wants a glass full of ice anyway ?
Outside of the fast food chains it's normal in Australia too.
Load More Replies...Not going to lie I did aswell for a long while as a late teen in the early 2000s, I just thought all my friends were really nice and sweet!!
It did actually start by meaning that - the other version gained popularity and that was that!
Load More Replies...Because originally it did!! There was a time when it could mean either, and then Laughs Out Loud won out. It makes me feel so old the number of times I've explained this to people to young to remember . . .
My mother said Lol when my cat died. Ten years on, we both laugh out loud about that faux paw.
It was used as lots of love for about a hundred years before texting came in :)
Load More Replies...My grandma wore heels gardening and at all times. When she took her shoes off, it looked like they'd been through a meat grinder.
I wasn't sure, either - here's a link! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Robert_Godwin
Load More Replies...Please accept my deepest condolences on the passing of your dear Grandma.
I think that too. We had call waiting one time ( it was a present) I would be on the phone and I would here the beep but I kept talking to my friend. Later when that person called again (they knew I had call waiting) they asked why I didn't pick up. I was already talking to someone, so I put you on ignore.
I once knew this guy who had the sexiest voice. I told him if he was ever out of work ,he should start a 1-900 number
I had to think about that for a few minutes. You could’ve said “my mother in law said to my husband” 🤣🤣🤣
This is priceless and she aint wrong! I need to use this saying
Or from my school, Let’s take the 13 year olds phones as they are texting their parents in fear! True story. I was pissed.
It seems harsh but it may be a policy for a very good reason. Unfortunately, during any type of emergency, communications needs spike and people often overwhelm the capacity of the system. This may mean that the absolutely essential, life and death calls, also can't get through.
Load More Replies...They have had some experience with the condom moose field, very fascinating line of work I must say.
Lol my 76 y/o Vietnam vet father yells "spark it up, bub!" whenever he smells weed, hears coughing or sees people smoking. Thick Maine accent so it sounds more like "spaahk" instead of "spark". Love him to pieces.
She's judging your fiancé by the principle of "large and full of flaws" vs. " tiny and flawless"
I like that! My family would say 'too many cooks spoil the broth' but that then morphed into 'too many cooks in the kitchen' said to the tune of 'too many d***s on the dancefloor'.
I use that, too! "This is a ONE BUTT kitchen and my butt is one cooking!"
This sounds like one of those stories aristocratic women in the 1700s would make up to justify why they couldn't perform manual labor.
Why would you punish a kid for that? It was very rarely I would keep a kid in, and in this case I would probably laugh! I mean I would say the obligatory, 'that's not a polite way to say it' but some teachers get all over the top about minor things.
I mean in my case it would be payback for hearing her recite all of Burlington Bert from Bow for the umpteenth time :) (Not that she didn't do it justice, and in a very aristocratic suit and top hat too)
My grandma would always ask her kids, "Did you do a big job today?" XD
When you get older, you start to value the simple things in life, like a healthy BM. Or so I've been told...by people older than me. There are some, you know.
Yes. Don't take a good day of bowel movements for granted.
Load More Replies...Not expecting to live long enough to ripen and eat such; only buying same-day food as that’s her expectancy.
Load More Replies...There's a second line that my family uses. S*!t fire and save the matches. F*(k a duck and see what hatches.
or they have just lived with each other for so long only they can burn one another
This is a quote from the old Soupy Sales Show (1959-1961). Never missed an episode!
Load More Replies...Reminds me of when my friends and I played P**N at a camp. It was actually spoons but we had no spoons and did have a chess set. Mum was a bit concerned when I came home and told her what we did last night!
My grandma offered the same thing to me once! I politely declined :)
I swear grandparents say things like this just so you'll think of them on your deathbed. It's like the ultimate troll.
Load More Replies...My grandma used to call a couch a davenport, too. Sometimes, a divan, but usually a davenport.
My grandma did as well. I just now had to google it to see where that word comes from. (It was an old company that manufactured couches).
Grandma referred to the pussy willow buds as her Puss*es and ever time I giggled told me I needed to grow up. She also told me I didn't need a man but they could be useful on occasion - she said that in front of Grandpa. She was politely savage all the time and most of the cousins didn't realize this about her. She also loved to drink and we used to play rummy and trash talk each other. I miss her, she's still with us but Alzheimer's has taken her away mentally.
Soo.. when I was an infant, my Grandmother used to sing me the Hearse Song... she is most definitely where my morbid humour and interests come from. Ironically, I'm now a Mortuary Student.
My mom was one of 6 kids. On my grandmother's 80th, we asked her why she had so many kids. Her response: Because I liked to f**k!!
When us kids asked Grandma why she had never remarried she said "Nah, all that heavy breathing in my ear". LOL
My momma would say, I've got an electric blanket and it don't talk back to me. Miss you momma
Load More Replies...Never say you hate anyone. Just say you don't like their ways. My Grandma was very sweet.
Both of my grandmothers were so sweet. Think Edith Bunker and neither one of them would have said the word sh*t ,even if they had in the mouth.
Load More Replies...One of the last memories I have of my paternal grandmother is that we (the whole fam) were eating at a VERY crowded restaurant in NYC. My grandmother leans over and whispers to me, "If you go to the bathroom, don't bend over to tie your shoes." I was a little taken aback by this comment but pressed further, "Why not?" "Because," she said, "If you do, they're throw a tablecloth over you and put four chairs around you." I miss her...
Grandma referred to the pussy willow buds as her Puss*es and ever time I giggled told me I needed to grow up. She also told me I didn't need a man but they could be useful on occasion - she said that in front of Grandpa. She was politely savage all the time and most of the cousins didn't realize this about her. She also loved to drink and we used to play rummy and trash talk each other. I miss her, she's still with us but Alzheimer's has taken her away mentally.
Soo.. when I was an infant, my Grandmother used to sing me the Hearse Song... she is most definitely where my morbid humour and interests come from. Ironically, I'm now a Mortuary Student.
My mom was one of 6 kids. On my grandmother's 80th, we asked her why she had so many kids. Her response: Because I liked to f**k!!
When us kids asked Grandma why she had never remarried she said "Nah, all that heavy breathing in my ear". LOL
My momma would say, I've got an electric blanket and it don't talk back to me. Miss you momma
Load More Replies...Never say you hate anyone. Just say you don't like their ways. My Grandma was very sweet.
Both of my grandmothers were so sweet. Think Edith Bunker and neither one of them would have said the word sh*t ,even if they had in the mouth.
Load More Replies...One of the last memories I have of my paternal grandmother is that we (the whole fam) were eating at a VERY crowded restaurant in NYC. My grandmother leans over and whispers to me, "If you go to the bathroom, don't bend over to tie your shoes." I was a little taken aback by this comment but pressed further, "Why not?" "Because," she said, "If you do, they're throw a tablecloth over you and put four chairs around you." I miss her...

