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2[[quoteright:320:[[Literature/TalesOfDunkAndEgg https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3wats_8522.jpg]]]]
3[[index]]
4* ''Funny/AGameOfThrones''
5* ''Funny/AClashOfKings''
6* ''Funny/AStormOfSwords''
7* ''Funny/AFeastForCrows''
8* ''Funny/ADanceWithDragons''
9* ''Funny/TalesOfDunkAndEgg''
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11!!Live-Action Television
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13* ''Funny/GameOfThrones''
14* ''Funny/HouseOfTheDragon''
15[[/index]]
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17!!''The Winds of Winter''
18* We have [[spoiler: Arya]] unknowingly play who is heavily implied to be Sansa or Shae in a Bravossian play based on the start of the War of the Five Kings and the part Tyrion played... albeit demonizing him as a Theatre/RichardIII type cackling villain.
19* Alayne's new friend [[DeadpanSnarker Myranda Royce]] is the main source of CMOF in the chapter:
20-->'''Myranda:''' The first Lady Waynwood must have been a mare, I think. How else to explain why all the Waynwood men are horse-faced? If I were ever to wed a Waynwood, he would have to swear a vow to don his helm whenever he wished to fuck me, and keep the visor ''closed''.
21** Also when discussing about the OpenSecret of Lyn Corbray's need of money and ambiguous sexuality:
22-->'''Myranda:''' Do you think if I asked nicely Ser Lyn would kill my suitors for me?
23-->'''Alayne:''' He might, for a plump bag of gold.
24-->'''Myranda:''' Alas, all I have is a plump pair of tits. Though with Ser Lyn, a plump sausage under my skirts would serve me better.
25** Again in Alayne's chapter, Alayne asks about Lyn Corbray's brother, whose young new wife is pregnant.
26-->'''Lyn Corbray:''' He remains at Heart’s Home with his peddler’s daughter, watching her belly swell as if he were the first man who ever got a wench pregnant.
27* In Arianne's second chapter, she is exasperated by her little fourteen-years-old cousin [[{{Tomboy}} Elia Sand]], who her father sent to her as a lady-in-waiting, but the girl just keeps getting in trouble in a very Arya-like fashion. Given Arianne's [[RebelliousPrincess past exploits]], her complain is HypocriticalHumor:
28-->'''Arianne to Daemon Sand:''' Why would my father inflict her on me?
29-->'''Daemon Sand:''' Vengeance?
30* Again in Arianne's chapter the Golden Company has taken Mistwood, the seat of House Mertyns, but the dowager Lady Mertyns is a CoolOldLady who [[ScrewPolitenessIAmASenior takes no shit from this bunch of sellswords]], despite being a captive in her own home.
31-->'''John Mudd:''' We are no thieves. We’re [[InsistentTerminology foragers]].
32-->'''Dowager Lady Mertyns:''' Did you buy all that food down in the yard?
33** And later:
34-->'''John Mudd:''' You should learn to speak more courteous to knights.
35-->'''Dowager Lady Mertyns:''' If you two are knights, I’m still a maiden. [[ScrewPolitenessIAmASenior And I’ll speak as I please]]. What will you do, kill me? I have lived too long already.
36** And even gets away with calling out Jon Connington's men for the rapes committed:
37-->'''John Mudd:''' [[BlatantLies No one’s been doing any raping]]. Connington won’t have that. We follow orders.
38-->'''Chain:''' Some girls was ''[[InsistentTerminology persuaded]]'', might be.
39-->'''Dowager Lady Mertyns:''' The same way our smallfolk were persuaded to give you all their crops. Melons or maidenheads, it’s all the same to your sort. If you want it, you take it. If you should see this Lord Connington, you tell him that I knew his mother, and she would be ashamed.
40* In Theon's chapter, [[spoiler: Stannis]] is unaware of his [[SanitySlippage unstable mental health]] and his MadnessMantra so when he says it, he replies:
41-->'''Theon:''' Theon. My name is Theon.
42-->'''[[spoiler: Stannis]]:''' [[CaptainObvious I know your name]]. I know what you did.
43
44!!''Literature/ArchmaesterGyldaynsHistories''
45* In ''The Princess and the Queen'' Prince Aemond One-Eye's EstablishingCharacterMoment is the rather unprincely question:
46-->'''Prince Aemond:''' Is Aegon king or must we kneel and kiss the old whore's [[CountryMatters cunny]]?
47* In ''The Rogue Prince'' Prince Daemon (who seems to have been quite the DeadpanSnarker) let us know what he thinks of the Vale and its people:
48-->'''Prince Daemon:''' "In the Vale, [[BestialityIsDepraved the men fuck sheep]]. You cannot fault them. [[CrossingTheLineTwice Their sheep are prettier than their women]]."
49* When Princess Rhaenyra learns she's to be betrothed to [[AmbiguouslyGay Laenor Velaryon]]:
50-->'''Princess Rhaenyra:''' My half brothers would be more to his taste.
51* When Unwin Peake, Hand of the King, wants to betroth his daughter Myrielle to his king, Aegon III, the boy asks what will happen if he doesn't like her. Unwin says that Aegon only has to wed her, bed her, and make a son with her, and then says, "Your Grace does not like turnips, but when your cooks prepare them, you eat them, do you not?" Soon, everyone in the Seven Kingdoms starts calling poor Myrielle "Lady Turnips". Gyldayn quips that she never became Queen Turnips.
52!!In General
53* Tyrion Lannister is practically a walking, drinking, wenching Crowning Moment of Funny.
54** "Tyrion found it disheartening to realize so many strangers were eager to kill him. Perhaps this had not been such a clever plan after all."
55** "Tyrion was about to tell his father how he proposed to reduce the Vale of Arryn to a smoking wasteland, but he never got the chance."
56** And this:
57--> '''Barbarian''': How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?
58--> '''Tyrion''': In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty.
59** At the Lannister camp, Tywin is listing their multiple enemies on various fronts: the Starks, Lord Beric, Stannis, Renly, etc.
60-->'''Tyrion:''' Take heart, Father. At least Rhaegar Targaryen is still dead.
61** From one of Tyrion's ADWD chapters: "The ship groaned and growled beneath him like a constipated fat man straining to shit." WriteWhatYouKnow, eh Georgie?
62** When [[spoiler: Tyrion is on the auction block]]... "and one!"
63** Tyrion bidding on himself when [[spoiler: he is being auctioned off, as a slave]]:
64-->"Five thousand is an insult!" Tyrion called out. "I joust. I sing. I say amusing things. I'll fuck your wife and make her scream. Or your enemy's wife if you prefer, what better way to shame him? I'm murder with a crossbow, and men three times my size quail and tremble when we meet across a cyvasse table. I have been known to cook from time to time. I bid ten thousand silvers for myself! I'm good for it, I am, I am. My father told me I must always pay my debts."
65** Tyrion has something of a habit of chiming in during discussions that other people are trying to have about him as if he's not there.
66--> Innkeeper: "Don't kill him in here!"
67--> Tyrion: "Don't kill him anywhere!"
68* [[FetishRetardant Many of the descriptions in the sex scenes.]] In particular, the descriptions in Cersei's AFFC sex scene [[HoYay with Taena Merryweather]].
69* While it's used as a horrible means of humiliation for Tyrion, the dwarf joust show is pretty funny. It involves two dwarves riding a pig and a dog, [[YouFightLikeACow exchanging colorful insults]] and getting confused about which mount belongs to which. In A Dance With Dragons, Tyrion meets Penny, one of the dwarf jousters, whose brother was killed because he resembled Tyrion. Penny complains that she had nowhere to go, she only knows how to mount comic joust shows and that needs ''two'' dwarves... Tyrion sees right through her intentions and [[NoJustNoReaction refuses blatantly]] to participate. [[spoiler: [[GilliganCut The next chapter starts with Tyrion riding the pig]].]]
70* A few examples from the Night Watch:
71** The Night Watch sets up straw dummies as bait for wildling arrows, and name them after different members. Pyp explains to [[TheEeyore Dolorous Edd]] that the straw man named for him had been leading the count until the last sortie, whereupon another "man" got three arrows to take the lead.
72-->'''Edd:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I never win anything.]]
73** He continues by complaining that the man the winner was named for was lucky because he completely missed the rocks when he fell off the bridge with an axe in his head.
74-->'''Edd:''' I never win anything, the gods always smiled on Watt, though. When the wildlings knocked him off the Bridge of Skulls, somehow he landed in a nice deep pool of water. How lucky was that, missing all those rocks?
75--> '''Grenn:''' Was it a long fall? Did landing in the pool of water save his life?
76-->'''Edd:''' No. He was dead already, from that axe in his head. Still, it was pretty lucky, missing the rocks.
77** Dolorous Edd's dialogue, every word of it, can be considered a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} personified.
78** When complaning about the cold and thinking of jumping into a pot of boiling water:
79-->'''Edd''': Though I would sooner it were wine than water. There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk. I knew a brother drowned himself in wine once. It was a poor vintage, though, and his corpse did not improve it.
80-->'''Jon''': You ''drank'' the wine?
81-->'''Edd''': It's an awful thing to find a brother dead. You'd have need of a drink as well, Lord Snow.
82** Pyp mocking Melisandre at dinner, thereby making the men of the Night's Watch chortle.
83-->'''Pyp:''' The night is dark and full of turnips. Let us pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.
84* Hodor often livens up Bran chapters, aided by Martin's narration. Standouts include the line "'Hodor', Hodor said doubtfully" and when Bran tells him to stop hodoring.
85** There's also this gem in a conversation about Coldhands:
86-->“His elk?” said Bran, wonderstruck.
87-->“His elk?” said Meera, startled.
88-->“His ravens?” said Jojen.
89-->“Hodor?” said Hodor.
90** It's not really funny that he gets beaten up badly for it, but after Theon takes Winterfell, he makes a speech to everyone there and basically asks if anyone has objections to his being in charge now. Hodor angrily shouts out "[[PokemonSpeak Hodorhodorhodor!]]"
91* While Theon's chapters in ''A Dance With Dragons'' aren't exactly a laugh riot, there's a funny line in the middle of one of the chapters, where he's thinking about {{camp follower}}s [[UnusualEuphemism euphemistically]] called "washerwomen". "... Some of them even did some washing."
92** Likewise:
93--> [Hot Pie]: "Pia says she saw something in the buttery."
94--> Pia was often seeing things in the buttery. [[ReallyGetsAround Usually they were men.]]
95* The whole concept of Skagos is kind of funny. Unicorns are typically associated with the most idealistic of fantasy, which makes it amusing (and typical of the series) that the location where unicorns are found is a PlaceWorseThanDeath the thought of which scares even jaded Westerosi. Also, the few details about unicorns shown so far, suggest they [[KillerRabbit aren't the friendliest of creatures]].
96* Stannis' put down to Jon in ''A Dance With Dragons''- “You haggle like a crone with a codfish, Lord Snow. Did Ned Stark father you on some fishwife?”
97** Every time ''Stannis'' makes something that could be interpreted as an attempt at humor. His "jokes" are so absolutely unfunny they instantly become classic.
98** Stannis does have a few instances of humor, if unintended. His tearing down of Janos Slynt, for instance.
99-->'''Bowen Marsh''': Who better to command the black cloaks than a man who once commanded the gold, sire?
100-->'''Stannis''': Any of you, I would think. Even the cook.
101** ''"Laws should be made of iron. Not pudding."''
102*** In fact despite his reputation for having no sense of humor Stannis delivers some really cutting put downs:
103-->'''Renly''': A year ago I was scheming to make the girl Robert's queen, but what does it matter? The boar got Robert and I got Margaery. You'll be pleased to know she came to me a maid.
104-->'''Stannis''': In your bed she's like to die that way.
105** "Her own father got this child on her? We are well rid of her, then. I will not suffer such abominations here. This is not King's Landing."
106** "I can only hope to win the north by battle. That requires stealing a leaf from my brother's book. Not that Robert ever read one."
107** Stannis' dry, sarcastic and relatively modern (for the reader) humor is almost inconceivable in a world like Westeros. It's made even clearer when Stannis is one of the few characters that simply doesn't think that fools are funny, but others think they're hilarious.
108* "Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold."
109** [[spoiler: This makes for a nice bit of black comedy in '''AFFC''', when Tywin's corpse is slowly drying out, causing the muscles of his mouth to shrink and tighten. Thus, for the entirety of his vigil and funeral (which is open-casket, by the way), [[PeacefulInDeath his mouth is pulled back into a wide rictus grin]], much to Cersei's continued annoyance and Jaime's mild amusement:]]
110-->'''Jaime:''' [[spoiler: ''"He seems to enjoy being dead."'']]
111* One very early in the first book: before he leaves for the Wall, Jon gets Arya a sword as a present. Regarding learning to use it, he helpfully says: "First lesson: stick them with the pointy end."
112** In-universe, Ned laughed when he asked Arya what she knew of sword fighting and she told him that, but agreed with the logic of it.
113** Becomes a TearJerker later on, when Arya is running for her life, and confronted with someone who's going to take her back to her enemies. In a panic, all of the sword fighting lessons that she's had go right out of her head, "and the only lesson that she could remember was the very first lesson, the one that Jon had given her." It turns out to be enough.
114** In a bit of black comedy/mood whiplash, Jon thinks of the line [[spoiler: when he is (possibly fatally) stabbed in ''A Dance With Dragons''.]]
115* During a conversation with Tyrion, Tywin refers to Varys as "That [[EunuchsAreEvil cockless wonder]]."
116** Alliser Thorne at one point tries to use eunuch to put down Varys in ''A Clash of Kings'', to which Littlefinger chimes in with "To his face, we call him Lord Eunuch."
117* Something between this and a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} and a Crowning Moment of Making You Say "Awww!": the list of kings, houses and such in the appendix contains, as of ''Dance'', such charming entries as "Lady This, died screaming in the black cells", or "Ser That, died of the bloody flux", or, "her enemies, false friends and uncertain allies", or "[[ICallItVera Vera]], his axe" (all names anonymized to prevent spoilage)... but also, with Tommen: [[CuteKitten "his kittens, Ser Pounce, Lady Whiskers, Boots"]].
118** And [[spoiler:"Lysa Arryn, slain with a shove" on the House Stark page in ''A Feast for Crows'']] kinda takes the dismissive-black-humor cake.
119** The above example is even topped by [[spoiler:"Tywin Lannister, [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard Lord of Casterly Rock, Shield of Lannisport, Warden of the West, and Hand of the King]], [[UndignifiedDeath murdered by his dwarf son in his privy]]"]].
120** Sharna's husband is simply referred to as Husband on the Brotherhood page in ''Storm of Swords'' because none of the POV characters who have met him knows his name.
121* Half the things that come out of Tormund Giantsbane's mouth are hilarious. Mostly dick jokes, but they still raise a smile. Har!
122** An example would be "If a man does not use his member it becomes smaller and smaller until one day he wants to piss and can't find it".
123** And Tormund ranting at Jon Snow for being a turncloak, including throwing his mug at him, but not before draining it first as he's not someone to waste good mead.
124*** Twice.
125*** Then after hours of swearing, threatening, and insulting Jon, he immediately starts acting like Jon is a drinking buddy.
126** Both times Mance sends Tormund out so he can't talk to Jon alone.
127-->'''Mance:''' Come inside. The rest of you, wait here.
128-->'''Tormund:''' What, even me?
129-->'''Mance:''' Particularly you. Always.
130* Patchface's ramblings about life underwater suddenly become much funnier when you remember a [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 famous song]]...
131* Maester Yandel, author of ''Literature/TheWorldOfIceAndFire'', mentions having been found abandoned as a child and taken in by an archmaester who claims he might prove of use. Setup for some great destiny? Actually the archmaester was writing a paper on swaddling infants and needed a guinea pig.
132* It seems Mr Martin had a bit of fun with the FamilyThemeNaming of some of the historical members of House Tully. There's Lord Grover, Ser Elmo, Ser Kermit and Ser Oscar. They're all [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]]!

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