The funniest road trips jokes, ranked.
3 comedians, one topic. Quoted from the source, funniest first by our laugh score: surprise of the turn (40), economy (30) and specificity (30).
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78Bill Bailey Bewilderness, 2001 · on Road trips
“They go into service stations - 'cathedrals of despair', as I call them - where baseball-capped ghouls of the night lord it over their congealed bean kingdoms, their fried-bread twilights, their neon demi-mondes”
Gothic poetry applied to a motorway services; the specificity is the joke.
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66Michael McIntyre The Comedy Roadshow, 2009 · on Road trips
After paying the Severn Bridge toll, there's a brief stretch with no lanes.
“It takes a very strange sort of man who doesn't go: 'The race is on! Come on, woohoo! First one to the lanes!! Order, order, back in order OK but I had fun while it lasted.”
Nails a tiny, universal driver thrill, though it runs a little long.
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62George Carlin Carlin on Campus, 1984 · on Road trips
“The person who drives the car they go for a drive, the other people they go for a ride. People don't know that, tell them when they're in your car. Say "you assholes are goin' for a ride!"”
A good Carlin language nitpick, with a mob-movie pun as the payoff.