HumorUs Stories — Classic and Original Funny Stories

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain

An errand, a name, a question. That's all it takes. Sent east to west on a friend's behalf, a traveler walks into a decayed mining camp in Calaveras County and asks one

The Reticence of Lady Anne — A Classic Short Story by Saki

A December afternoon, a fire going down, and a marriage stalled halfway through a quarrel nobody bothered to finish. Egbert comes in for tea prepared to be reasonable, th

Gipsy — A Classic Comic Tale by Booth Tarkington

Duke is a little old dog with a pessimistic worldview and a well-earned suspicion that life rarely improves. Gipsy is a rangy, scarred, yellow-eyed stray cat who lives by

A Wasted Day — A Classic Short Story by Richard Harding Davis

Arnold Thorndike buys a Correggio before breakfast and can price his own time to the minute. Two hundred dollars of it. So when he stops his car at the Court of General S

The Whirligig of Life — A Classic Short Tale by O. Henry

Ransie and Ariela Bilbro come down out of the Cumberland Mountains to have their marriage undone. Justice of the Peace Benaja Widdup can find no law on the subject, so he

Chain of Custody — An Original Comedy of Errors by Don McDonald

In Maple Glen, nothing ever happens. This week, nothing happens in three separate backyards, after dark, and everyone involved would prefer you didn't ask. A deadpan com

The Good Little Boy and The Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain

Mark Twain had a bone to pick with the Sunday-school storybook — that pious little genre where good children are showered with rewards and bad children are struck by ligh

The Nice People — A Classic Humorous Story by H.C. Brunner

Atop Orange Mountain, in Mr. Jacobus's summer boarding house, a bored married couple finds relief from their tiresome fellow guests in the arrival of the Bredes — a grace

Memoirs of a Yellow Dog — A Classic Humorous Tale by O. Henry

O. Henry usually saves his surprises for the last line. This time he starts with one: the narrator is a dog. In *The Memoirs of a Yellow Dog*, a mangy, good-natured mutt

The Committee Committee – An Original Short Story by Don McDonald

This is a parable set in a village where things run smoothly—because they always have. Problems are addressed. Responsibilities are shared. And when questions arise, the

Forever Fun

Some stories ask you to believe. These just want to humor us. Here's a narrated collection of short fiction with a straight face and a crooked grin. Hosted on Acast. See

The Great American Pie Company — Classic Humor by Ellis Parker Butler

Eph Deacon sells pies for a living, or rather his wife bakes them and he carries the basket, which suits his philosophy just fine. Then Phineas Doolittle starts undercutt

My Financial Career — A Short Classic Humorous Tale by Stephen Leacock

He only wants to open an account. That's all. Fifty-six dollars, a polite request, and maybe two minutes of a bank manager's time. But the moment our narrator steps insid

The £1,000,000 Bank-Note — A Classic Tale by Mark Twain

Henry Adams has one dollar to his name, a coat gone thin at the elbows, and a hunger that's stopped being polite about it. Then two rich old brothers hand him an envelope

Nevada Funeral – Scotty Briggs and the Clergyman by Mark Twain

Out in the Nevada mining camps of the 1870s, men learned to speak a language all their own, part slang, part swagger, part pure invention, and woe to the outsider who cou

Eve's Diary — Translated from the Original by Mark Twain

Where Adam's diary gave us one grumpy, bewildered account of those first days in Eden, Twain gives Eve her own version, and it changes everything. She's curious about eve

Excerpts from Adam's Diary by Mark Twain

Before there was marriage counseling, there was Adam's diary. Mark Twain's comic monologue imagines the Garden of Eden's first resident keeping a running, increasingly ex

The Baker's Dozen — A Humorous Playlet by Saki

Major Richard Dumbarton and Emily Carewe haven't seen each other in years, not since old grudges and other marriages got in the way. A chance reunion aboard an eastward-b

Pigs is Pigs — A Classic Farce by Ellis Parker Butler

This story a small masterpiece of exasperation from 1905. Ellis Parker Butler wrote "Pigs Is Pigs" as a jab at corporate red tape, and somehow, more than a hundred years

Two Hearts Beat As One — A Classic Story by Frank Norris

Frank Norris could grind a man down to nothing in three hundred naturalist pages. He could also, when the rent was due, write something this loose and this funny. "Two He