I have been reading through the bible for several years and realized that I haven't found anything humorous.  Maybe I missed it.  Can some one point out a humorous story in the bible?

There are some eccentric turns of phrase in the Douay Rheims version:
(there are others, but here is what I have for now)


What do you loosing the colt?

I adjure thee by God that thou torment me not. For he said unto him: Go out of the man, thou unclean spirit.

Unless one intended to ridicule or show irreverence towards the sacred, a joke is simply a joke. But these could scandalize the weak, so caution is necessary. 

Somewhere in the Catholic Encyclopedia 1917 there is a very short paragraph discouraging the making fun of holy Persons or sacred things. If I remember, around the end of the 18 th Century, it was kind of getting out of hand, so the Church made a statement. It falls under the sin of blasphemy, irreverence towards God,  Saints, Sacred words taken in vain, things holy used as the b*tt end of a joke. About the same time, the Church banned crucifixes having a lamb...pagans were remarking: Hey, look..they are worshipping an animal!

I remember a priest telling a 4 minute joke about God speaking of /creating Canada. 'Such a grand country, mountains, rivers, rich in resources etc.' And the priest ended with a punch line, putting words in God's mouth, speaking as if God was really saying it.  Then God said:"..."
Please don't mock / imitate Almighty God, the Creator of the universe.
THAT is when it becomes some form of blasphemy, and good Catholics are to refrain from taking the sacred lightly...imo.

There is a lot of irony / satire in Holy Writ.

Isaac means laughter.

I love the part in Esther, 6 and 7,  when Aman thought he was going to be honored by the king, exclaiming around the city when he was wearing regal garb etc. and then in the next chapter he gets hung up on

Scripture is the story of humanity's relationship with God. It's a drama, a history, and a tragedy. Like any good drama (and in fact this is the best one, as God is the perfect author), it has humorous elements but they're not in the form of cheap jokes, more in the form of contextual humor. They're an ornament to the dramatic whole, and the whole rarely surrenders or suspends itself for the sake of a joke. There are definitely no stand-up acts.

But to give some examples... I always thought the death of Moses had a dark humor about it.  The fickleness of the Hebrews and the fact that Moses has given them everything he's got, and some, and his parting words are basically "I know you're going to screw everything up but please don't screw it up as badly as I know you can."

Or think about Jonas. Has anyone ever tried so hard, and failed so miserably, to escape God? There's absolutely humor in Jonas's folly.

In the New Testament, Our Lord is not without a sense of humor-- think about how many cutting remarks we use that came from His mouth-- "the blind leading the blind," "casting pearls before swine", and so forth. We might be too familiar with such expressions to appreciate how witty they are.

Remember the best humor is the stuff that's true. Look at the stories in the bible and you'll find humor, it just won't be knock-knock jokes.

Hmm. There is very little, if any, humor in the Bible. And what little there is is usually from one of the bad guys.

The fact that most of the quotes people have given here are a bit speculative as to whether they are intended to be funny to begin with kind of illustrates that observation.

It does say several times that God will laugh, but that is always in the context of laughing at the destruction of the wicked in order to mock them. Those quotes are mainly in the Old Testament.