Dad Jokes & Funny Father Quotes

Dad jokes and funny father quotes, because fathers are fodder for funny. Share 'em with your old man, then thank him for all the good stuff.


Funny Father Quotes
Group 1

Dad Jokes: Funny photo of man in suit and tie swimming after fish underwater, Spike Milligan quote: "My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic."


If you ever want to torture my dad, tie him up and right in front of him, refold a map incorrectly.
- Cathy Ladman

My father makes money the American way. He trips over stuff and sues people.
- Dominic Dierkes

My dad asked me, “Son, have I been a good father?”
I said, “Dad, you’re the best. Why do you ask?”
He said, “I wanted to make sure the way you turned out is your fault.”
- Stu Trivax

My father is very handy with tools. He hands them to me when he wants me to get some work done.
- Melanie White

I know that if my mom fell and screamed for help, my dad would jump right up to rescue her as soon as it was halftime.
- Bruce Cameron



Dad Jokes

Group 2

My wife just let me know I’m about to become a father for the first time. The bad news is that we already have two kids.
- Brian Kiley

I phoned my dad to tell him I stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
- Steven Pearl

You gotta love dads. At my wedding, when I tripped on my wedding dress and fell flat on my face, Dad said, “Don’t worry, you’ll do better next time.”
- Melanie White

My father didn’t ask me to leave home. He took me down to the highway and pointed.
Henny Youngman

I am an expert on electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
- W. C. Fields


Cartoon: dad in easy chair surrounded by son and 7 dogs. The boy says, "Dad, the team feels your feeding leadership is lacking."


Dad Jokes

Group 3

My dad's been around the block a time or two. That’s about as far as he can go without getting lost.
- Melanie White

My dad said I’d never amount to anything. Lucky guess.
- David Cousins

My dad’s pants kept creeping up on him. By 65 he was just a pair of pants and a head.
- Jeff Altman

My father refused to spend money on me as a kid. One time I broke my arm playing football, and my father tried to get a free x-ray by taking me down to the airport and making me lie down with the luggage.
- Glenn Super

All during the pregnancy when I was supposed to be reading baby books and taking baby classes and learning baby CPR didn’t really go to waste because I did use the time to shop for the perfect video camera.
- Paul Reiser

Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.
- Ashley Montagu



Dad Jokes

Group 4

My father hugged me only once, on my 21st birthday. It was very awkward. I now know what it was that made me feel uncomfortable: the nudity.
- Ray Romano

I love my dad, because even though he has Alzheimer’s, he remembers the important things. He can’t remember my name, but last week he told me exactly how much money I owe him.
- Thyra Lees-Smith

My father would give us previews of coming attractions. “Do I have to get the belt?”
“Oh no, Dad, we’d prefer that shovel with the nails in it.”
- Jack Gallagher

My dad is not real bright, but I love the guy. We go to this trophy shop because my basketball team won second place. We were in this shop and there are trophies everywhere. My dad looks around and says, “This guy is really good.”
- Fred Wolf

The worst thing that can happen to a man is his wife comes home and he has lost the child. “How did everything go?” “Great, we’re playing hide and seek and he’s winning.”
- Sinbad

I was 36 before I figured out most of my dad's advice to me was just quotes from Burt Reynolds movies.
- Tony ‏@Tmoney68


Photo of grumpy-looking man with quote by Melanie White: "The first step to understanding a father is decoding his grunts."


Dad Jokes

Group 5

I asked my dad for a BB gun, but he said we were a tribe of worriers, not warriors.
- Hilary Price

When you’re young you think your dad is Superman. Then you grow up and you realize he’s just a regular guy who wears a cape.
- Dave Attell

The greatest advantage mothers have over fathers, is knowing which children really belong to them.
- Ham on Wry ‏@HeyZeus666

My dad, 86 years old and he’s still working. God bless him. He’s a pimp, and he’s out there every night.
- Jonathan Katz

I never knew what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him $100 and said, “Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.” So he bought a present for my mother.
- Rita Rudner

My dad’s hearing is gone, and his mind is slowly following. He called me up the other night, very excited. He said, “Jonathan, when I get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I don’t have to turn on the light; the light goes on automatically. When I’m done, the light goes off automatically.”
I said, “Dad, you’re peeing in the fridge, and it’s got to stop.”

- Jonathan Katz


Banner with French Proverb:
"A Father Is A Banker Provided By Nature"


Dad Jokes

Group 6

All fathers are intimidating because they’re fathers. Once a man has children, his attitude is, “To hell with the world. I can make my own people. I’ll eat whatever I want. I’ll wear whatever I want. And I’ll create whoever I want.”
Jerry Seinfeld


My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
- Spike Milligan

A Father is one whose daughter marries a man who is vastly her inferior, but then gives birth to unbelievably brilliant grandchildren.
- Anonymous

My dad taught me everything I know. It’s not very much, but that’s all I know.

- Bubba Watson, pro golfer


One day my boys will wise up and realize they get to stay up playing video games only as long as I'm winning.
- Aristotles ‏@AristotlesNZ

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
- Anonymous


Photo of man wearing t-shirt that says: 
"Dad, The Man, The Myth, The Legend."

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