Articles — Comedy

When the people responsible for helpful signage decide to phone it in, we all get to enjoy the beautiful chaos of warnings that warn nothing and directions that direct nowhere.

Some entrepreneurs really need to read their storefront signs out loud before ordering the neon, because these business names went from 'quirky' to 'call HR' real fast.

Property owners and vintage advertisers prove that sometimes the best way to deter people is to make them deeply uncomfortable with your word choices.

Municipal workers armed with paint and zero proofreading skills have blessed the world with traffic instructions that would make an elementary school teacher weep.

From breakdancing tutorials that look more like workout injuries to walk signals demanding inappropriate button placement, public signs have officially lost the plot.

Two cartoons skewer the distance between Washington's game-players and everyone else stuck paying rent, proving that a good visual punchline beats a thousand policy papers.

From spousal daycare to patriotic demands, these real-world signs prove that sometimes the message gets lost in translation.

Some spoofs are so spot-on they transcend mere imitation and become comedy gold in their own right. Here are a few that absolutely crushed it.

From messianic self-portraits to tax return drama, American politicians prove they've never met an ego they couldn't inflate or a disclosure they couldn't dodge.