Christmas

Clean Christmas jokes, funny Santa letters, snowman pictures, cracker jokes and festive stories for the whole family.

🎄 Christmas Jokes, Stories & Traditions

Christmas has been the busiest time of year on Funny Jokes ever since Will and Guy started the site in 2004, and this is where all of it lives: clean cracker jokes to read out round the table, funny stories for children and grown-ups, the history behind Santa, carols and mistletoe, and plenty of snowmen, reindeer and Father Christmas pictures.

Everything here is family-friendly, so you can share it with the kids, the grandparents and the office party. Start with the favourites below, browse by type, or scroll down for every Christmas page on the site.

⭐ Start here

Clean Christmas Jokes and One-LinersOne-liners for the dinner table Christmas Bon-Bon JokesGroan-worthy jokes for your crackers Funny Christmas Kids Stories and JokesJokes and stories for children Short Christmas StoriesQuick festive reads The History of Santa ClausWhere Father Christmas came from Traditional Christmas Food and Drink from Around the WorldWhat the world eats on 25 December

😂 Christmas jokes & one-liners

🧒 For kids & school

📖 Christmas stories

🎅 Traditions, history & trivia

🎶 Carols, quotes & cards

📸 Pictures & videos

❓ Christmas questions

What are good clean Christmas cracker jokes?

Short question-and-answer puns work best, such as "What do you call Santa's helpers? Subordinate clauses." Our Christmas cracker jokes and clean Christmas one-liners pages have dozens more that are safe for all ages.

Who invented the Christmas cracker?

Crackers are usually credited to Tom Smith, a London sweet-maker, who added the "bang", paper hats and mottoes to his wrapped sweets in the mid-1800s. Telling a terrible joke from inside the cracker has been part of the fun ever since.

Where did Santa Claus come from?

Santa grew out of the legend of Saint Nicholas, a 4th-century bishop famous for secret gift-giving, mixed with the British Father Christmas and the Dutch Sinterklaas. Read the full story in The History of Santa Claus.

Why do we kiss under the mistletoe?

Mistletoe was linked with fertility and good luck long before Christmas, and the kissing custom became popular in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. See Kissing Under the Mistletoe for more.

Every Christmas page