60 Humorous Print Advertisements to Tickle Your Bones
Everyone needs a little humour in their hectic lives and more often than before, advertisers try to inject some fun into their advertisements. Injecting humour into their advertisements does not necessarily mean that the ads are better than others. However, the smart play on words and careful consideration of the ad’s objectives, target audience and market standards, humour can help the advertisement increase effectiveness and widen its receptiveness.
When using humour as a creative strategy, advertising firms agree that it increase audience attention, at least on the first few exposures to this form of persuasive communication. However, we cannot deny the fact that audiences’ patience has shrunk and their attention span is shorter as compared to the past.
Good design communicates meaning.
Good design communicates effectively.
Good design communicates in a way that words simply cannot.
Good design INTRIGUES.
A good print ad should not be too complex but easily interpreted and understood by its target audience. If you want more humorous advertisements, please check out 40 Creative and Funny Advertisements Using Animals!
60 Creative and Humorous Print Ads
We’ve put together 60 creative and humorous advertisements and hope you enjoy it as much as we did and help you get those creative juices flowing! Can you comprehend and read into their meanings at first glance?
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21st Century Healthcare Repella Insect Repeller
Stockholms Hundforum (Wanking Dog)
The Seafood International Market and Restaurant
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Which Advertisement is Your Favourite?
Online or not, advertisements have to catch your attention within the first few seconds or they are considered to have failed. Creative directors and advertising agencies have to brain storm for ideas, as well as to do countless of research and plan the design and concept of the ads. However, this is a necessary process because it is the foundation for the success of the ads.
What do you think is the most important aspect in the use of humour in advertisements? Have you seen any great advertisements you’d like to share with us? How about voting for your favourite ad?
Feel free to flood us with your comments!
Ahahah Excellent ! Amazing selection Thx :)
great, thank you.
A fantastic article! I laughed for hours and shared it with all colleagues! Thanks for posting!
OMG......
hahahahhahahahahahahahhaahha.....
just keep it coming!!!
I need this kind of things at stressful days like now
great!!!
really amazing. unbelievable concepts.
Excellent, excellent, excellent !!!! LOL Very Funny
Some great advertisements here, nothing is better to sell something with humor. Definitely some inspiration.
Omg, these ads are simply amazing.
The priest and the post-it notes ads were pretty good... Most were pretty funny.
Ben
marketing
I think my favorite was the one of the soldier throwing his sock into the building. XD
Favorite for sure is the Lego one. So simple yet effective and it brings back good memories of legos.
thanks for sharing
some what surprise to see AIRTEL, its a good idea.
Wow great compilation.
my cheek bones won't stop aching!! These guys came up with great concepts and presented them uniquely!
I love everything on this page. I just wish Im some rich person to avail everything that they have advertised esp. the Cameras and Lenses!
Excellent concepts. Mind blowing.
unbelievable images.. funny lol
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Unbelievable images and really funny. My favourite is Durex "O" :-)
hahaha ! So many cool and funny ideas on these Ads.
I think my favourite ads are for Pedigree and Listermint with the pastor.
Thanks a lot for sharing.
I thought the Sargam Bubbles was funny as hell!
Hahaha so many awesome pics and genius , i love it !
very kool
Nobody else notice the difference between "Jane" and "Jade" ?
Thanks for pointing out. Got it fixed.
My favorite is birth comedy central ha ha.
great photos,really made me laugh
The squirrel fiat panda ad has some very bad photoshopping. I am surprised no one noticed it. Just how long is this guy's right arm supposed to be anyways?
Photoshop might be the cause of that.
There certainly were some ads I will not forget, although sometimes I had a bit of a problem reading. Well, the images were meant for younger eyes.
Lets hope they are bigger in real life. Some of the elderly are also shoppers.
Is that all you noticed about the Fiat Panda ad? If it's promoting SUVs as a way of escaping, maybe there should be some notice to the way that gas guzzlers like that are a large contributor to our lack of animals in the city!
I somehow do not think the verbal abuse ad (the one with the arm coming out of the mouth) was suppose to be funny, as domestic violence is a somewhat serious matter. But if people think its funny, then the ad fails.
aware helpline copied Goh Hand's cover.....
but... all of them are awesome.. the pedigree's fat dog mad me laugh
My tuchis fell off when I saw this site. I am now walking around tuchis-less and don't know how I'll ever sit down again. What the hell can I do? Why did you post this cruel site forcing me to laugh so hard I lost my tuchis?
Sarah Palin is still an asshole, no matter what you say.
lovely...
Great post and humor is by no means a guarantee of better ads but its effect can be enhanced with careful consideration of their objectives as well as the audience, situation, and type.
AMAZINGGGGGG
if you really laughed for hours at these, something is wrong with you.
I agree with Kevin. Also, some of these were horrifically offensive to women.
im a woman and not offended at all. a hate it wen guys especially say "that's offensive to women". only men and ugly women complain about sexism against women
No, the people who complain about things being offensive to women are people who have studied sociology, women's issues and feminist issues and understand that such attitudes and media presences contribute to the overall treatment of women in our society.
Woman shouldn't be offended at the harmless jokes guys make about them.
Well then 99% of women will be ok then Sam.
thats very cool
I am disappointed you deemed several offensively objectifying ads as "humorous". I am sick of seeing women's bodies used to sell things, and when you praise such advertisements you are only adding to the problem. People wonder why our society is filled with insecure women, confused men, sexism, disproportionate numbers of sexual assault against women and unhealthy attitudes about sex.
If you disagree that such ads are offensive, then think about this: when have you EVER seen a man presented as a sexual object in an ad in a way that wasn't supposed to be humorous or ironic? The only ads I can think of are a select few underwear ads. I certainly don't see hot man-on-man action being used to sell cameras, pop and dog food.
I would kindly ask you to review your own attitudes about sex and women, and to review the following ads after: Numbers 4, 8, 13, 32, 37 and 44.
Dear Sam,
We are sorry that you deem those ads as offensive to women. Please be assured that we totally respect women and are also against sexism and violence on women.
Dear Sam,
As a woman I would like to tell you one thing. Shut up. These ads aren't offensive. They are funny. Women like to be sexual beings. It makes us feel powerful. We like to be admired. So calm the hell down. No one gets mad and throws a fit when axe and bod commercials show guys half naked with women touching them suggestively all over their bodies. So just shut the hell up. No one cares.
Kthanks.
So because some women have taken a bad situation (sexual oppression and discrimination) and turned in into somewhat of a good thing (that powerful feeling of controlling men via a woman's body) than we should all "shut up" and stop fighting for equality? You realize the only reason you can feel sexy and empowered by showing off your body is because you live in a society that values nothing about women EXCEPT their body... and this society rewards women for following its norms by convincing them that it feels good to be sexualized.
(Also, yes, I DO get upset at overly-sexualized images of men.. except... they are so rarely seen. Dehumanization will always be wrong, no matter which gender it affects.)
So, why don't YOU "shut the hell up" and continue living in your retarded little fantasy world, being silently oppressed and discriminated against, never questioning the unwritten rules of society just like everyone else... while the people who DO dare to dream of a better world will keep trying to make it happen. One baby step at a time.
These ads ARE offensive, demeaning and are one of the flood of images that contribute to the sorry state of society - for men and women alike. Apparently though you don't care enough about the wellbeing of millions of men and women enough to question your worldviews.
Sam are you serious right now. You've got a woman telling you that she understands that these images are just for entertainment.
The irony in Sam telling emma to shut up.
Frightening, Funny, Fabulous, Fantastic...
Very funny awesome thanks
hehe:D
I took nearly 5 min to go through this complete page ...
nice collection of incredible ads
Ahahahah i loved the 'Panadol Menstruation' one.. the over-dramatization of it was just so funny.. a frikkin robot being sent into something like a 'war zone' where something's about to explode.. hehe.. well done, almost all the ads are really good, some were just "meh"
Wow not only funny, but some of them inspiring for guerilla marketing. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the sharing. Very interesting ads !
Wow that's cool, the ads are very creative, funny and meaningful, I love them all, thanks for sharing :)
I feel bad for Nikon if that was the best Photoshopper they could get. Those girls are seriously deformed in that picture.
Hi Bree,
Now you mentioned it. The girls do look a bit unnatural.
fantastic so go a little to far.
But the majority are very clever and definitely kick ass...
very funny n amusing.
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So macht Werbung wieder Spaß
simply loved the every bit of bit of it ,wish I Were rich enough to get the nikon camera,loved it from top to bottom.
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Lol! What a very funny advert collection. I love it. Thumbsup and twitted :)
Those were really great. I cant believe what some companies can get away with!
wow, you know what's funny? women as sexual objects. i cracked up!
Fantastic ! Thanks
But the majority are very clever and definitely kick ass...
That some thing incredible i ever see, thanks for posting such a unique thing
ABSOLUTELY FANTABULOUS!!!!! This is what I call "Thinkology"
I would like to add some information to the Playstation PSP ad. The picture was taken in Madrid, Spain, in Calle Arenal. The funny thing about it is that the guy in the picture is usually around, as a living statue. He's been doing this for so many years that he's practically an icon of the city.
Hi Antonio, thanks for sharing this information. Just a question, did he really play the PlayStation?
How you get all this stuff amazing and real funny. Thanks
hahaha!! will take a look at them once more
These are all pretty cool but the foot on the face one is disgusting. Feet don't belong near anyones face. YUK! Sorry, I'm just saying.