The Dad Joke Science Lab
A community-driven platform for rating, submitting, and generating the world's most groan-worthy jokes — built by Josh Kurz.
What Is This?
JoshKurz.net is an interactive dad jokes website that goes beyond a simple joke list. It's a living, voting platform where the community decides which jokes are truly legendary and which ones deserve exactly one reluctant groan.
With over 900 jokes sourced from four different sources — and AI generation to mint new ones on demand — there's always something fresh to rate. Whether you're a dad joke connoisseur or just here to suffer through a few puns, you're in the right place.
Features
Random Joke Machine
Every visit serves a fresh joke pulled from 900+ dad jokes sourced from fatherhood.gov, icanhazdadjoke.com, Reddit's r/dadjokes, and community submissions.
Community Voting
Rate every joke on a 1–5 groan scale. Ratings are tallied in real time and influence the community leaderboard. Your vote actually counts.
AI Joke Generation
Hit the AI button and a large language model generates a brand-new dad joke on the spot, inspired by the highest-rated jokes in the collection.
Text-to-Speech
Every joke has a listen button. AI-powered text-to-speech reads the joke aloud — perfect for sharing at the dinner table without staring at your phone.
Submit Your Own
Think you've got a great dad joke? Submit it. Approved jokes join the main rotation and are open for community voting.
Analytics Dashboard
See which jokes rank highest, which sources produce the best groaners, and how the community's taste in bad humor evolves over time.
Where Do the Jokes Come From?
Jokes are sourced from four places and rotated fairly so every source gets equal airtime:
fatherhood.gov
The official U.S. government dad joke archive. Classic, clean, wholesome.
icanhazdadjoke.com
The internet's largest dad joke API — hundreds of community-contributed puns.
reddit.com/r/dadjokes
Top all-time posts from the most upvoted dad joke community on Reddit.
Community
Jokes submitted directly by visitors to this site.
How Voting Works
Each joke is rated on a 1–5 scale. Ratings are stored in AWS DynamoDB and aggregated in real time. The Dashboard shows which jokes have earned the most groans, which sources produce the best material, and how the community's collective taste shakes out.
To keep votes honest, each IP address can only rate a given joke once. Repeat votes are silently ignored — no error, no drama. Just good, clean, democratic groan-scoring.
Ready to Judge?
900+ jokes are waiting for your verdict. One groan at a time.
Start Rating Jokes