A meticulous event planner accidentally books a silent meditation retreat and a regional karaoke championship in adjoining halls.
18 Comedy Prompts Prompts
These prompts create a starting constraint, question, or situation. Use one as written, combine two, or change the audience, setting, objective, or limitation to make a new exercise.
A man pretending to understand wine is elected president of a neighborhood tasting club after correctly identifying tap water.
Two coworkers secretly applying for the same job are assigned to write each other’s recommendation letters.
A family hires an actor to impersonate a distant relative at a wedding, then the real relative arrives early.
A new mayor discovers the ceremonial town mascot costume is legally required at every council vote.
A serious historical society accidentally becomes famous online for a sarcastic caption posted by an intern.
A restaurant critic loses her sense of taste the morning she is scheduled to review the city’s most expensive menu.
A man trying to return a library book thirty years late is repeatedly congratulated for donating a rare first edition.
A landlord installs a suggestion box and receives increasingly formal complaints from one tenant’s parrot.
A wedding photographer realizes the couple has hired two photographers and both think the other is an intrusive guest.
An introverted accountant becomes the office “culture champion” because a spreadsheet autofilled the wrong name.
A community theater casts the town’s strict parking officer as a lovable outlaw in a musical.
A chef claims a disastrous soup is a regional specialty, then a food historian arrives asking for the recipe.
Two neighbors compete to create the quietest apartment and escalate into absurd soundproofing projects.
A politician rehearses spontaneous answers so thoroughly that staff cannot tell which accidental comments are scripted.
A dog walker mixes up two identical dogs whose owners have opposite theories about discipline.
A professor assigns a paper on misinformation and accidentally cites a parody site in the instructions.
A customer-service chatbot becomes famous for one typo, forcing the company to decide whether fixing it will anger fans.