Guardian staff pick the funniest things they’ve seen online in the past 12 months – in the hopes that you’ll join us with yours in the comments
During 2020’s first lockdown, Guardian Australia launched, a weekly column to bring joy to readers who very much needed it.
For each column, a famously funny person picks out the links, videos and tweets that have made them laugh the hardest. We thought it would be short-lived, but as the pandemic kept going, so too did our need for levity – and now the Thursday spot has become a mainstay.Please join us in the comments with a link to the funniest thing you’ve seen online in the past year: it can be a tweet, an
, a TikTok, a video, a headline, an article ... anything that isn’t offensive, defamatory or mean-spirited, really.Although the news report is about a very serious dangerous driving charge being overturned, there’s just something about the dull thunk as face meets glass, followed by the Wilhelm scream-esque yelp, timed perfectly in between the Seven News reporter’s narration. This clip felt like 2021 in a nutshell.
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