Need a laugh? Comics and humor
Start your day with a cup of java and a trip to http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Comics_and_Animation/Comic_strips, where you can find a list of hundreds of assorted comic strips, with something for every sense of humor and every age.  Most of these are not published in your local paper, but, rather, are smaller, more personal types of comic strips, published only on the Web by people who have something to say.  Browse through the list site to see if there's something that catches your eye.

Thanks to CJ Purple for this site description.If you want to view your favorite published comics on the Web, there are a few places you can go.  http://www.uexpress.com/ups/comics is the home page for all of United Press Syndicate's comic strips.  These include Fox Trot, Bizarro, Garfield, Cathy, For Better or For Worse, and Doonesbury.

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/ covers United Media's strips:  Alley Oop, Dilbert, Peanuts, Jump Start, Nancy, Marmaduke and a number of others. 

There are even a few unofficial sites dedicated to now-defunct but once very popular strips.  For example, a tribute to the Far Side, featuring a different (but recycled) strip daily, can be found at http://www.ausweb.com.au/FarSide.  A list ofCalvin and Hobbes sites is at http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Comics_and_Animation/Comic_Strips/Calvin_and_Hobbes, while Bloom County fans can find sites devoted to this old favorite at http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Comics_and_Animation/Comic_Strips/Bloom_County

Thanks to CJ Purple for this site description.Did you know you can find David Letterman's Top Ten Lists on the Web?  Well, you can, at http://www.cbs.com/lateshow/ttlist.html. This site allows you to search by day or by topic, or to browse the entire archive by year.  While you're there, you can click on links for various other aspects of Dave's show, including how to get tickets and a list of upcoming guests for the next couple of weeks.

Thanks to CJ Purple for this site description.One of the Net's oldest and most popular newsgroups (by it's own claim) is rec.humor.funny and it now has it's own home page at http://comedy.clari.net/rhf/.  Not all of the humor linked to this site is suitable for children, so parents, be forewarned.  Other links from here include information about the newsgroup, current jokes of the day, and a searchable archive of jokes.

Thanks to CJ Purple for this site description.For a list of hundreds of humor sites on the Web, point your browser to http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Humor_Jokes_and_Fun/.  At the top of the page, you'll see a list of categories, ranging from Animals to Food to Words and Wordplay, and lots of stuff in between.  If your sense of humor centers around a particular topic, click on that topic and view the Web sites available to tickle your funny bone.  Below that, you'll see a long list of individual sites, most of which include a short description of what the site is about.  This is the way to go if your sense of humor is more eclectic.  

Thanks to CJ Purple for this site description.The Oracle can answer all your important questions: "What's the meaning of life?", "Where does the dryer put the socks it steals from the wash?", and "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" Or he could <ZOT> you into a smoldering pile of ashes. Either way, he's a great guy.

The Usenet Oracle isn't really a person. It's an electronic mail service. Send the Oracle your question, and within a few hours, you'll receive an answer from the all-knowing one.

The Oracle is a cooperative effort for creative humor. When you send a question to the Oracle server, your message is actually forwarded to someone else who uses the program. She mails a (preferably witty) answer back to the Oracle server, which forwards it to you. Thanks to the server program, all this is done anonymously--the questioner (or "supplicant") and the answerer (that is, the Oracle incarnate) never know who each other is.

The best questions and answers--as selected by volunteer "priests"--are distributed in "Oracularity digests" on the Usenet group rec.humor.oracle.

Over time, the Usenet Oracle has developed his own personality. Writers incarnated as the Oracle often blend in known aspects of his persona: an inflated ego, a sense of humor, his girlfriend Lisa, and the propensity to <ZOT> his less fortunate supplicants.

For more information about the Usenet Oracle, send electronic mail to oracle@cs.indiana.edu with a subject line of help. To ask a question, the subject line should include the words tell me, and the body of the message should contain your question. You should receive an answer in a day or two, probably much sooner.

Once you ask a question, the Oracle may ask you to answer somebody else's question, as a sort of payment for services. You should respond with the most witty answer possible, so that the supplicant feels gratified in his or her quest for knowledge. If you can't think of a worthy reply, do nothing and the question will be sent to someone else. If you wish to answer a question without asking one, just send a message to the Oracle server with a subject line of ask me.Q: How many jugglers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: One, but it takes at least three light bulbs.

This and a hundred more, at http://www.dakota.net/pwinn/humor/litebulb.shtmlIf you like weird humor and you have a relatively fast connection to AOL, try Doctor Fun at http://sunsite.unc.edu/Dave/drfun.html. Doctor Fun is a daily cartoon...one that you won't find in your newspaper. It offers zany humor and a beautiful color cartoon (which is why you'll want that fast modem.)f you're a fan of Monty Python (it's a dead parrot!) check out The Spam Club, a wacky web site just for Python fans. http://www.pythonline.com/spamclub/index.htm