If you’re no stranger to social media (does that even qualify as a dad joke?), you know very well that comments can be both a curse and somewhat of a blessing. Written from the comfort of your private IP address, they can range from needlessly mean to inspirational and mood-lifting. On some occasions, they offer better content than the post itself. Especially if we’re talking jokes.

Thanks to the subreddit “The Real Joke,” which, as their description reads, is “dedicated to those of us who find the better joke in the comments section of any subreddit or other medium,” we now have the best comedy bits that come right from the backlines of any given post.

Created two years ago, the community with 244k members offers a hand-picked selection of screenshots that serve as evidence that you don’t need to look far for a good one. Scroll down a bit, and then some more, to see what fun things they had to comment on.

#1 Trump Is Really Hood, Who Knew?

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#2 Just A Relevant Joke

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#3 This Made Me Eoomn (Exhale Out Of My Nose)

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To find out more about the r/TheRealJoke subreddit and the community behind it, Bored Panda reached out to its creator and moderator RichterRicochet. He explained that the community was formed because of a recurring meme in the r/jokes subreddit “wherein, if someone made a joke in the comments section of a joke that was posted (and the comment’s joke was better), then someone would reply with ‘The Real Joke is in/is always in the comments.'”

“This gag persisted for quite some time,” so redditor RichterRicochet took it upon himself to open the r/TheRealJoke subreddit as “something of a highlight reel for these comments.”

It turns out, the community is extremely active. “With over 240k subscribers, the subreddit exploded over the course of the last year,” said RichterRicochet and added: “while there is an upside in that there’s a greater influx of content, the downside is the lacking moderation.”

There are only two active moderators making sure the subreddit goes according to the rules. “Needless to say, there’s a lot of dirt to sift through to get to the gems of the community.”

#4 I Love Democracy

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#5 Today, We Will Only Do Squats!

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#6 My Names Kyle So Yeah

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When asked what the title “The Real Joke” refers to, RichterRicochet simply said that the real joke is always found in the comments and that sums up the essence of the subreddit.

A fan favorite of RichterRicochet is one in their top (of all time) section titled “Oof.” Another good one according to him is from this past week, called “Bro, really tho…” “It plays on the stereotypes of people from Alabama having bad hygiene/being coupled with family.”

In the end, Richter Ricochet concluded that “Something to bear in mind is that since the subreddit started, it’s essentially become something of an anarchy nightmare.” Thus, he invites anyone who “feels that they can bring order to this mess we call home.”

#7 Pew Pew Pew

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#8 Trj Education Edition

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#9 My Wife Left Me Because I Am Insecure

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#10 With That Belly, Sure We Are!

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#11 Web Designer

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#12 Refreshing

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#13 Will You Marry Me?

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#14 One Hell Of A Pun

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#15 Priorities

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#16 I’m In?

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#17 An Interesting Title

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#18 Lmao

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#19 Venn Diagram

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#20 Wrong Kong

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#21 Better

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#22 It’s Pointless

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#23 I See What You Did There

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#24 He Earned That Gold

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#25 Hearing Aids

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#26 Bruh

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#27 I Agree.

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#28 A Whole Lot Of Jokes

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#29 Cell Sea Us

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#30 Pretty Good

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#31 Exhaled Hard At This One

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#32 Depression 100

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#33 I’m Gray

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#34 I Think Wii Can All Agree It’s Better.

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#35 Another Covid Joke

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#36 Gosh Darn

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#37 When Life Knocks You Down Get Crack Up

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#38 Oh Sh*t

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#39 At Least He Found The Point.

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#40 We’re Gonna See This On A “Top 10 Pranks Gone Too Far” Video In 10 Years

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#41 Fuhrer

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#42 Oof

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#43 Now It’s Your Turn To Speak

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#44 The Real Nut

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#45 Observe

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#46 Nah I Don’t Like Him Tbh

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#47 Based

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#48 Everyone Knows Who’s The Boss At Home Right?

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#49 Couch Jokes

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#50 A Lesson In Number Theory

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#51 Here Comes The Sun

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#52 Sounds Crazy, Doesn’t Tit

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#53 Hold Up!

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#54 Forgive Me For Not Using The Dark Theme

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#55 So That’s Why Nobody Smiles When They See Me

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#56 An Interesting Title

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#57 Noice

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#58 Doing Spooktober Justice

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#59 Hmmm

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#60 From The Space Launch

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#61 Poor Robert

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#62 Sherk

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#63 Blow Of The Plants

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#64 She Put Her Hands Up

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#65 Took Me A Sec…

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#66 25 Kill Streak Press G For Tactical Nuke.

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#67 Manbat

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#68 I Cant Read Either, Im Just Hoping The Text Is Funny

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#69 What Is My Purpose?

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#70 Department Of Redundancy

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#71 Water In The Future

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#72 McDonald’s New Special

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#73 Counterproductive Protest

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#74 The Actual, Real Joke.

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#75 Nice Pun There

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#76 Looks More Fun Than The Other Klan Rallies I’ve Seen

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#77 Good Ol Ron Swanson

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#78 This Just Made My Day.

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#79 Killer Joke

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#80 Can’t Have Stuff In Detroit

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#81 Really Tho?

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#82 Enemy Spotted

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#83 Think This Works Here

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#84 I Love Quarn

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#85 Bruh

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#86 Bee Smoothie

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#87 I’m Not Good At Titles

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#88 Not Sure If This Was Posted Yet But Made My Day A Whole Lot Better

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#89 Flawless Execution

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#90 Sprite

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#91 Some Quality Joking

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#92 Herbefore

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#93 Ah Yes.. Americans.

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#94 Hmmmm

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#95 Congrats Russia ! ?

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#96 Fractions Are A Bit Tricky

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#97 Spread It Around

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#98 Title Witle Bitle Ditle Mitle

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#99 Truly The Best Way To Prevent Pregnancy

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#100 How It Really Be

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#101 Work On Your Delivery

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#102 A+ Addition

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#103 No Aussies Here

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#104 He’s Got A Point

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#105 Jokes Got Jokes

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#106 Titles Are Hard.

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#107 Unfortunate…

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#108 I Think We All Did

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#109 Vaganus Maximus

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#110 Entitties

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#111 Good Joke Ting

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#112 Chuckled At This One

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#113 A Non-Interesting Title

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#114 “DIY Channels Be Like”

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#115 This One Killed Him

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#116 Found On R/Shittysuperpowers

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#117 Stay Inside The Lines

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#118 Beyond Standard

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#119 Our* Cat

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#120 No One…no One

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#121 Ocean Facts

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#122 In These Tough Times.

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#123 To Be Fair, Pugs Are Pretty Cute

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#124 It Just Works, Ya Know?

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#125 Sex…

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#126 How Do People Come Up With These Things

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#127 Does This Count?

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#128 Wait That’s Illegal

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#129 Gay Ray

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#130 Cool.

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#131 That Wise Guy

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