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69 Times YouTube Viewers Completely Stole The Show In The Comments
One-liners are a tried and true method of comedy, after all, a good joke is held back by too much detail or too many words. It’s pretty rare to hit a punchline worth it after four paragraphs of text. Equally, this is one reason platforms like Twitter used to be excellent sources of humor.
So we’ve gathered the best comments hidden underneath YouTube videos for your reading enjoyment. Get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and if you want to try your hand at matching some in this list, then add your own best jokes to the comments down below.
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There's actual science behind why a two sentence YouTube comment can make you laugh harder than the ten minute video sitting above it. Psychologists have a name for this effect. It's called the incongruity theory of humor, and it basically argues that our brains find something funny when reality suddenly veers away from what we expected.
You watch a moose knock over a canoe and brace for chaos, then someone in the comments deadpans that the moose was simply reviewing the canoe's stability rating, and your brain does a little double take. That gap between what you expected and what you got is where the laugh lives. Researchers who study this theory point out that the twist has to land fast, because the longer a setup drags on, the more your brain settles into expecting the punchline, which drains the surprise right out of it before it even arrives.
That's also why the internet has always rewarded short form comedy. Long before YouTube comment sections became their own genre, Twitter's character limit forced people to trim every joke down to its sharpest edge, cutting out anything that wasn't pulling its weight.
Comedians have always known that pacing, what's technically called comic timing, can make or break a line regardless of how clever the words are. A joke that needs four sentences of throat clearing before the payoff usually isn't a joke anymore, it's a story. The funniest online comments skip the throat clearing entirely and go straight for the punchline, trusting the reader to fill in the rest without any hand holding.
Then there's the community angle, which YouTube comment sections do better than almost anywhere else online. Watching a video is a solitary act, but scrolling through the replies turns it into something closer to a group chat with strangers. Someone drops a pun so bad it loops back around to brilliant, another person builds on it, and within a few replies you've got a whole bit developing in real time underneath a video about, say, a squirrel stealing a sandwich.
Writers who study the format have noticed that certain formulas keep reappearing because they work so reliably, things like the fake time stamp pointing to a moment that doesn't actually exist in the video, the comment written as if it's a message sent back from the distant future, or the reply that reads the room so well it ends up with more attention than the original post itself. Even long running roundups of these moments (like this one) keep finding fresh material because the format never really runs dry, and every new video gives the internet's amateur comedians another blank stage to work with.
A lot of the best comments also lean on being relatable rather than clever for cleverness's sake. Self deprecating humor tends to land harder online than showing off ever does, because admitting you also microwave your coffee four times before finishing it makes you likeable in a way that a perfectly crafted zinger sometimes doesn't.
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keyboardtek 1 month ago
And then after being in the kitchen, the second best room is the bathroom.
The comment doesn't need a big vocabulary or a complicated structure. It just needs to say the thing everyone was quietly thinking and say it fast, before anyone else beats them to it. None of this means writing a great comment is easy. It actually takes a surprising amount of instinct to know exactly how many words a joke needs and exactly where to cut it off.
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The people who consistently pull it off are doing something closer to stand up comedy than typing, they're just doing it in a text box with no stage, no lighting, and no audience feedback beyond a little thumbs up counter ticking upward. So as you scroll through this list, pay attention to how short most of the winners actually are. Chances are the best one only needed a single sentence to completely derail your afternoon.
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VisuallyChallengedPew 1 month ago
There's a reason we don't see Ronald in the commercials anymore.
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Luke || Kira (he/she) 1 month ago
They say you can't hear pictures but I look at this one and hear "But my FATHER is the CEO!"
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keyboardtek 1 month ago
Seriously though, most non pianists are not aware that one can actually feel the vibrations of the music through the keys. The strings are hot by the hammers, they vibrate and the wood soundboard amplifies the vibrations. The keys are also made of wood so those vibrations are felt in the keys. It is why we pianists generally do not enjoy playing a digital piano. Digital pianos do not have wooden keys or a soundboard.
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Bored Jellyfish 1 month ago
I don’t know what I did wrong! I substituted Coke for the water because I didn’t have any on hand, and I added a pinch of baking soda because I saw in TikTok that it turns it clear so that it’ll should look like water. My ferret loved it! Hubster, not so much.
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Nicole Weymann 1 month ago
I hate ads in general. Always have, always will. And I can't for the life of me understand the hype of campaigns that "shaped people's lives" like Coca Cola's annual Christmas spot that got shamed for two years in a row for using AI and "kiIIing the spirit of the holiday". The whole artificial business bubble created around telling people "BUY THIS!!!" on every game, app, show, and site is completely out of hand and makes me irrationally angry! Rant over. Sorry. Got triggered.
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Upstaged75 1 month ago
Gi ga has apparently never met a member of my pasty white family before. 😂 Or an Irish person.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
Took me a while to realize why this one was funny - look at the timestamps of all the comments XD
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Chaotic Good 1 month ago
He looks like the guy who goes into a strip club and does up-close magic tricks to impress the dancers.
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VisuallyChallengedPew 1 month ago
Someone help the old, terminally uncool guy out. What does "IKO" mean?
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
Most of the time, the comments section of Bored Panda is better than the listicles/posts themselves ;)
Beak Hookage 1 month ago
That's why I'm still hanging around here despite the insufferable celebrity garbage and AI slop. ^_^
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
Most of the time, the comments section of Bored Panda is better than the listicles/posts themselves ;)
Beak Hookage 1 month ago
That's why I'm still hanging around here despite the insufferable celebrity garbage and AI slop. ^_^
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