Editorial Position
This paper does not laugh. It verifies.
The Funniest Site is a curation desk. We read the internet so you can read less of it, and we present the funniest material we find with the gravity it plainly does not deserve.
Our method is simple. Each morning the desk reviews what the internet produced overnight: headlines, posts, videos, arguments between strangers, and at least one photograph of an animal in a situation. Everything is assessed against a single editorial question, which is whether it is funny. Items that are funny run. Items that are not funny are filed, respectfully, in the bin.
We hold ourselves to newspaper standards in every respect except the news. Headlines are checked for spelling. Datelines are checked for dates. Jokes are read aloud in a flat voice by a senior editor, and if the room remains silent while everyone privately wants to laugh, the piece is approved for the front page.
You will find no laugh track here, no exclamation points, and no editor willing to smile on the record. The comedy is in the material. Our job is to stand next to it looking serious.
Standards & Practices
The curation desk at 6 a.m., moments before finding something funny and declining to react.
House rules of the curation desk
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Rule one: every item must be funny to at least two editors who refuse to admit it
Adopted unanimously, in silence
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Rule two: sources are credited, because stealing jokes is the one thing we take seriously
Standards desk · Non-negotiable
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Rule three: punching down is spiked on sight, no appeals, no exceptions
Filed under: obviously
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Rule four: if an item requires three paragraphs of context, it was not the item
Brevity desk · Approved briefly
Correction
An earlier version of these rules contained a fifth rule. It was not funny. We regret the rule.
Questions for the Editor
How do you decide what makes the front page?
The desk gathers candidates from across the internet every day. Each one is read, considered, and ranked by how funny it is. The funniest items lead the edition. There is no algorithm. There is a person with strong opinions and a red pen.
Is any of this real?
The newspaper is not real. The laughing is real. The headlines you see here are jokes, satire, or genuinely funny things other people made, presented in the most serious available typeface. If a headline sounds too absurd to be true, that is the intended effect.
Can I submit something funny I found?
Yes. Send it through Letters to the Editor. Include a link and, if possible, where it came from so we can credit the original. The desk reads every submission with a straight face and files each one accordingly.
Who actually runs this?
A small desk of editors who love comedy and dress it up as journalism. Our identities are protected for the same reason a magician does not explain the trick: it would be less funny, and someone would ask us to stop.
How often do new editions come out?
A fresh edition goes up every morning. Come back daily. The internet keeps producing material, and we keep pretending it is news.
From the Desk
Complaints, corrections and funny things: same mailbox
If you found something the internet should be ashamed of and proud of at the same time, send it in. If you spotted an error, send that too. The desk answers all letters in the order they make us laugh.