Everybody agrees that penguins are funny. They walk funny. They sound funny. They all look like they’re wearing tiny little tuxedos. They’re birds, but they can’t fly — that’s very funny. They live in utterly ridiculous places, and they fall down all the time.

It almost seems as though nature designed penguins purely for our amusement, which is why these clownish creatures have been comedy staples forever, including in The Far Side.

While penguins weren’t a top-tier Gary Larson fixation like cows and dinosaurs were, they were a semi-recurring source of comedy in his daily comic strip, which ran from 1980 until 1995. And, because penguins are such funny little guys, here are the 10 best penguin-oriented Far Side comics.

Penguins are such ridiculous creatures that if your town was being terrorized by a giant one, it’d be more embarrassing than anything else. Even with other funny animals, I don’t think this is the case. Monkeys are funny, but King Kong is one of the greatest monsters ever. Goats are funny, but I’m pretty sure a giant goat head-butting buildings would be horrifying. A giant penguin, though? There’s just no way to take that threat seriously, especially since these creatures presumably have a complete inability to stomp.

Okay, hamsters are funny, and I’m pretty sure they’d be funny as giants, but still not funnier than penguins.

This is just a great example of a simple, silly gag which is kind of the opposite of the previous one. The idea of penguins as an animal you can get an infestation of is really ridiculous.

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