99+ Best Funny Tattoos

The time-honored stereotypes of rebellion, angst, and otherness have been joined by irony, satire, sarcasm, dark humor, and a great deal of fun as viable means of skin expression.

Funny tattoos, once accidental and often cringeworthy, now cross over into all genres of the art form and into popular culture as well. All it takes is a funny tattoo idea, willingness not to take things too seriously, and enjoyment found in poking fun at things while needles poke your skin.

Tattoos vary between individuals, a fact extending to humor in tattoos. A picture, phrase, or quote could have one person in stitches and leave another horrified or confused. The range in reactions is partly why funny tattoo ideas are a rapidly growing phenomenon.

Now, more than ever, it’s important to think, feel, and experience the emotions you pour into body art. Read on for 134 funny tattoo examples to make you laugh, chuckle, howl, or shake your head.

This is a cool small tattoo. The use of white ink support for the simple image works well to add highlights.

American Black And White Arm Tattoo

This is a nicely etched black line tattoo; love the humor of an alien rocking stereotypical culture elements of smartphone, funny glasses, and self-deprecating ironic “blonde” tee.

Simple Line Quirky Semse Of Humour Tattoo

This is a crude yet funny tattoo of a cow being lifted into an alien spacecraft. There’s a lot of technical work needed to improve on the fun idea. The linework of tractor beams is messy and looks to have been drawn freehand. The cow, too, needs a touch-up to clean up the black ink fill. The tattoo on the right of the featured piece is a bit scary; it’s old, faded, and could do with a complete refurbishment.

Ufo Electrapop Electric Ink Black And White Tattoo

This funky pair of religious aliens is a great bit of 3D new wave tattooing. Love the color palette and solid fill, especially on the alien’s interior and the flower petals. It’s the type of image atheists would find hilarious but draw harrumphs from those of faith.

Grey Cute Funny Alien Butt Tattoo

This small inner bicep funny tattoo rocks. It’s simple, ironic, and well etched. The use of fine black lines creates a simple image but one well suited to get the fun message across. The black zebra stripes of the turned-down coverlet are an excellent touch.

Funny Small Quirky Line Tattoo

Hahahaha. Love the sentiment expressed by the care-worn alien smoking a butt; scratching itself absently is a testament to the translation. It’s a very human scene found outside corporate buildings worldwide.

Funny Alien Line Tattoo

Love this image. It’s definitely not the type of thing Alf would go in for. Again, it’s a simple, minimalist line tattoo that effectively matches the message with the tattoo art. For some reason, the forlorn look on the cat’s face cracks me up.

I Love Cats Alien Line Tattoo

All this funny tattoo is missing are some party favors to get the ball rolling. The incongruence between the hat and the great white shark is a good piece of tactical trickery. The ink itself is well drawn, crisply lined with deft use of shade and shadow.

Pigeon Bird Funny Tattoo

Okay, so let’s get weirder. I bet the Simpsons Troy McClure would have one or two tattoos like this one extolling his “love” for sexy fish. In funny tattoos, the small details set up the hilarity of the overall image. This effort combines knee-high bobby socks and an anchor tattoo for a good laugh. The splash of aqua/blue color is a realistic application for the piece that seems added purely to make the ink look stranger.

Reverse Mermaid Black Work Line Tattoo

Banana Flipper? Okay. This is brilliant and zany. It’s a minimalist funny tattoo that only needs to get by on concept, which is unique and innovative. If you peel a banana and a dolphin pops out, I’d recommend seeing a licensed professional.

Awesome Funny Shark In A Banana Line Tattoo

The daddy longlegs is an excellent etching of fine black line. The long pegs which give the beastie its name are cleverly done in an almost dot-to-dot fashion, and detailing the body/head isn’t the aim of the art. I’m not a big fan of the cursive script; it’s a good calligraphy style but lacks flow. Throwing in the quotes is somewhat redundant and throws the piece off balance.

Call Me Daddy Naive Style Funny Spider Tattoo

This funny tattoo is a great little piece of subversion, with a small realistic duck seemingly content to be hooked up to a brain stimulator. I can dig it. The absurdly life-like television is the key to the piece, with its feet like weird hands and the old school vibe of its shape and detail. This is an exceptional tattoo.

Funny Tv Duck Contemporary Black Tattoo

A fine minimalist cartoon alligator tattoo. It’s neat, but well done. There’s not much to this simple tattoo but Sharpie thick lines and eye/teeth effects, but it’s executed with cleverness. The key over the long term would be making sure it stays isolated from other art to retain individuality.

Not Happy At All Bunny Black Line Tattoo

Known as bin chicken in Australia, the ibis is alternately loved and spurned in equal measure for its voracious appetite for picking food out of bins and terrorizing tourists in popular coastal communities. It’s likely a long-legged, winged cohort to the North American raccoon. This fellow is casually going about his day, smoking a cigarette and probably thinking of ways to put food on the family’s table while causing maximum vexation to humans. Some would argue it’s a noble pursuit.

Smoking Bin Chicken Tiny Black Funny Line Tattoo

This is a brilliant, funny tattoo of a great white shark in floaties. The level of absurdity is matched only by the ferocious look of the apex predator trying to get about in the big wide ocean. Technically, the tattoo artist did a very finely etched piece of work. The shading is fantastic low-key realism allowing the brightly colored floaties to stand out against the contrasting shark. The big, hungry mammal itself is a clean piece of black ink outline.

Old School Shark Funny Tattoo

Hahaha. This is a classic. I can imagine this ornery toad sitting out on his stoop, watching the neighborhood goings-on and then spilling the tea to the other old amphibians later on at the bar. The linework is key to this tattoo design‘s success — its fat outline provides a nice shape for the simple, effective shading to work against in opposition.

Memes Funny Frog With Coffee Tattoo

This underwhelmed pink unicorn is a killer funny tattoo. It doesn’t need to say anything more than it does, like a cranky animal from Adventure Time or the discarded portion of a Matt Groening think tank. Love the horn made to look like a tasty wafer cone, while the clean pink color fill is an excellent shade against the subject’s skin. It cleverly works in concert with the flowing white ink mane. Given the other art close by — a black line snowflake and tasty sundae — this dude’s not afraid to get wacky in his choice of tattoo art.

Malcazone Small Cute Funny Colored Cartoon Tattoo

This pug riding his surfboard is amazing. I would binge watch a television show dedicated to big-wave puppy surfers. He’s extremely detailed, and well balanced on the short board, which is gnarly in itself. At first gaze, I wasn’t a huge fan of the wave portion of this tattoo. Despite being a reasonable circle with excellently depicted white caps and shading, I got the feeling it was too stretched out. But, the more you look at it, the more it doesn’t matter because there’s a pug hero on a surfboard attacking the curl like vintage Kelly Slater.

Pug Love Wave Black Work Tattoo

Mom stopped crying about my tattoos around 15 years ago, when I was a dozen or so in and already heavily illustrated. However, If I’d gotten a well-etched monkey with his nuts out mooning everyone who looked inked on to me anywhere, she would have gotten a barrel full of sulfuric acid, a massive wire brush, and burnt it clean off my skin. This is certainly a funny tattoo, but it will take great strength of will for the subject to continue to think so as time passes.

Aloha Monkey Black Gray Color Tattoo

Flash as a rat gets a new connotation with this awesome gray rodent. Love the gray ink used in this cartoon tattoo, well supported by flashes of white ink and a big front tooth. His casually brushed-back hair looks classic, like a shifty car salesman with a lifetime supply of free Brylcreem.

Homer Simpsons Epic Traditional Funny Tattoo

Pretty interesting camel toe interpretation. The placement is excellent, as is the group’s commitment to having fun with a negative, if often occurring, discomfiting phenomenon. The black solid fill is done well, considering the awkward placement, and the tattoo artist has put together an attractive camel outline.

Hahahahaha. This one is a cracking take on the popular “snek” meme, with the deliberate crudity of the script working because of the professional delivery. The “snek” looks like a small child drew it on the back of the subject’s arm, but that’s exactly the point!

No Step On Snek Funny Black Line Worst Tattoo

This giraffe is keen for a titillating lick of the subject’s nipple. The artist has smartly used scale in crafting this funny tattoo. The giraffe is long, lithe, and proportionate instead of stumpy. There’s not a lot of detail, but the black fill of patches has been etched effectively.

Crazy Funny Giraffe Clever Tattoo

A great take on the goldfish riding a bicycle gag, although this fella seems to have seen too much in his time, as the wide eyes and cigarette dangling from his mouth can attest. The bicycle is clean and simple, while the combination of line tattoo and dotwork alt fill are a good use of technical application. I can picture creaking wheels and scratchy brakes squealing as the fish lurches past you at the bust stop on his way to the liquor store at 8.00 am.

Cute Smoking Fish Biking Black Tattoo

This frog is not here to mess around. It’s reminiscent of when you turn up to the party a couple of hours late, and one of your friends is already a magnum of sparkling wine in, shouting at you to play Shania from the second story roof (allegedly). The match strip style of linework is a unique effect, as is the sparse fill scratches – they could probably be more effective if done as dotwork or hybrid hash lines.

Badass Funny Drinking Frog Tattoo

This sloth is great, but if future you need this message to get lucky, then you’ve done something wrong along the way. The white highlighted claws are impressively etched – like little wolverine claws – and the faint white smudges of fur work sweetly. He’s such a friendly looking dude.

Amazing Sloth Cute Tattoo

This is a brilliantly delivered piece of tattooing, mixing exceptional black lines and negative space with cool, fundamentally sound geometric application. The linework of the real ladder is so impressively fresh; without this technical excellence, the rest of the tattoo design would not work as it allows the angles to be on point.

Exit Sad Art Black Work Tattoo

Another cool, funny tattoo mixes a smart concept with simple, practical delivery, like the use of red ink to contrast with the minimalist hands; although any bright color opposite the black line would be useful.

Elegant Nail Art Black Line Tattoo

Haha. Periods are the worst and this tattoo sums up a woman’s monthly cycle perfectly. It’s a straightforward but extremely clever piece of body art that doesn’t waste time getting its message across.

Small Funny Clever Uterus Tattoo

Well, this is quite the metaphor. I love a good example of smart, meeting funny and then being put together with quality needlework. Like the artist‘s differentiation of each pair of scissors – the heavy duty fabric scissors on the left against the more utilitarian ones on the right. The shading is precise and perfectly brings the innovation forward, while the lines are etched crisply against negative space to give the left hand scissors more shine.

Scissors Lovers Gay Cute Tattoo

This is tremendous. It’s a neat, small tattoo balancing a fun, albeit slightly morbid message that at times we’ve all felt. The black line ink is well delivered – there are no wasted strokes – the tennis racquet in particular is boldly done and looks freshly busted.

Tennis Graphic Design Simple Lining Tattoo

These twin thigh tattoos are so weird they’re amazing. I’ve never seen a handcrafted tattoo describe brain function in such a cerebral way. It’s like a mud map thrown together during a team building exercise, and reflects the point of the tattooperfectly. The imprecise nature of the circle, brain, and connective lines writ large on the skin is a great teaching moment – not all tattoos have to be precise to be brilliant (although 90% of the time it is important). The contrast between the crayon style brain diagram, with classic black and gray knee roses, adds another layer to the irony.

Nothing Something Like Comment Follow Funny Tattoo

Hahahaha. This is badass. A plastic chair tattoo that’s come straight out of the budget department store catalog and retails for $10. The only way to top the negative space, black line version is to color it in that horrible dark green mirroring the color of your garbage bin. It’s a killer piece of body art, and I want one of my own.

Chair Black Work Cute Funny Outline Tattoo

Sometimes, you’ve just got to release that dove and move along. Fly free little doves, fly free. This funny tattoo has a real old school, American Traditional vibe, but with gradient shading instead of single fill colors in the usual green, red, and yellow.

Body Art Bird Love Clever Tattoo

This is a fun variation of the famous fresco featured on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The message is clear, but what is also clear is the expertise of the tattooist. The shading, although light, is subtly tremendous, adding flexion and shape to each hand and complementing the fresh black outlines. The only issue with this tattoo is the placement – the upper back is Malibu real estate for ink lovers, and this bad boy could look amazing scaled down and placed elsewhere.

Hand Badass Black Line Tattoo

This is one of the saddest tattoos you will ever see. Well done!

Sad Face No Money Flash Sheet Small Line Tattoo

This funny tattoo is an absurdist Hello Kitty fever dream. The layers of the different pink shades are dazzling, going from the bright sugar bomb of the sushi cat right through to the pale, fluffy rose pink stuffed with little white stretches of dotwork. Pink is a stretchy color, and this piece demonstrates that with innovative style. Also like the seaweed roll in the middle mixing up clever dotwork for a magic eye effect.

Cat Sushi Kitty Cat Paw Cute Tattoo

Okay, put down the tattoo gun. You’ve had enough for today.

Mini Mr Heggie Art Body Art Tattoo

This is an ingenious small tattoo placed perfectly into an awkward position. The key to this flailing cat will come later. Tattoos in this body part are notorious for ink dropping out; it may be necessary to get it touched up later on. The image itself is entertaining; the feline’s eyes bugging out is enjoyable.

Funny Cat Ankle Art Tattoo

What’s going on with all these cats doing art? There’s no animal less suited to getting paint on them, or being criticized by people on the internet than cats. This fellow, however, seems to be enjoying himself. The artist has captured the weirdness of this piece really well by throwing in the classic dick and balls engraved in red to complement the image of the stereotypical old school painter. The funky short lines do well to capture the idea of fur, while the fat black edge fill is a nice contrasting technique.

Cat Painting Weird Funny Cute Tattoo

Another Sistine Chapel shout-out, but with a kitty involved instead of an upraised middle finger. The concept is fun and interesting, although the tattoo‘s positioning creates a sense that the circle is pinched and not perfectly circular. Given where it is placed on the inner forearm, maybe a different shape with lines and clean angles, such as a triangle or hexagon, may work better in framing the stellar internal image.

Hand And Cat Diy Icon Tattoo

This Nyan cat take is strange and enjoyable but extremely well colored with sky blue contrasting against the flat gray ink. I like how much fun the artist and subject have had putting the purrmaid together, and can get behind it.

Purrmaid Adorable Fat Pusheen Cat Tattoo

I’d argue this hairless green cat is more scary and dangerous than a funny tattoo design. Either way, it’s an astounding piece of technical ink. Forget the evil green feline for a second and check out the tremendously inlaid collar. The golden shading is nuanced – there’s a slightly different tone at each stage – with excellent shine, further boosted by the fine details of the central sun outline and collar studs. Then, you’ve got the amazing hairless monstrosity of sickly green shaded out with black highlights and fine lines creating fantastically subtle wrinkles. I can’t look at it, yet I can’t look away from it either. You do not want to lie to this pet.

Florida Lauder Dale Color Tattoo

This is an awesome variation of the “I’m fine/this is fine” meme that is now an extremely important part of everyday digital culture. It’s taken the Monty Python knight from the golden eighties and run with it to today’s sensibility. Technically, it’s cleanly inscribed with a simple black line, well supported by a script type designed to just be there, instead of dominating the nonplussed cartoon cat and surprisingly elegant broadsword.

Stick And Poke Funny Cat Pusheen Tattoo

Once upon a time, I too liked a party, but never ever with a switchblade. This cat image is popular and freaky. The only issue with this minimalist bit of fun is the superfluous period in the end.

Mr Heggie Party Hard Cute Funny Cat Tattoo

You can imagine the subject’s aged grandparent looking at this tattoo for the first time and saying, “Ooh isn’t it a pretty… what the hell is going on here? Are those testicles? Did you get a cat with testicles tattooed on your skin?” This is the kind of reaction throwing in a set of testicles to a funny tattoo has to prompt. At no stage does someone get a tattooprominently featuring a set of nuts and think that it won’t draw comments, either in hilarity or horror.

Akiwong Cute Minimalist Cat Tattoo

This is a great mix of watercolor tattoo and black lines, like Little Miss Messy on the skin. The blue/purple mess of color looks really cool, with the small addition of black lines adding ballast. The legs are simple, but the red and white striped socks make them good fun.

La Ragazza Strange Color Tattoo

Never seen a vibrator foot tattoo before, but I’m certain I will again. Love the use of American Traditional style script in addition to the ubiquitous buzzing boyfriend well etched with black line and cheery red/pink color. This is epic!

True Love Plugs In Tattoo
Lauro Paolini Steven Rorschach Pro Team Realistic Color Tattoo
Shark In A Ball Pit Cute Funny Colored Tattoo
South Park Old School Shoe Tattoo
Row Your Boat Funny Fail Tattoo
Tomb Stone Skeleton Grave Funny Cute Tattoo
Didnt Pet Enough Cats Fine Line Halloween Flash Cat Tattoo
Hang In There Keep Up Your Chin Up Cute Tattoo
Grimreaper Smoking Weed Recovery Tattoo
Cool Im Dead Skin Awful Tattoo
Gun Gangster Flash Contemporary Tattoo
Tasty Pizza Monster Fun Colored Tattoo
Sweet Donut Funny Art Tattoo
Cool Pineapple Small Fresh Tattoo
Rib Eye Steak Small Color Tattoo
Amazing Nutella Art Tattoo
Banana Surprise Pimenta Funny Color Tattoo
Ham Dot Work Line Tattoo
Moor Hoppiness Beer Can Leg Tattoo
Peach Traditional Funny Tattoo
Black White Cactus Ghost Funny Art Tattoo
Boo Ghost Funny Line Art Tattoo
Domenica Black Work Funny Tattoo
Whats That Gonna Look Like When Youre Older Spongebob Funny Tattoo
Squid Ward Cool Funny Tattoo
Hank Hill Watermelon Sticker Funny Tattoo
Sesame Street Bert And Ernie Meme Religious Cute Funny Tattoo
Existence Is Pain Dope Funny Color Tattoo
Weird Cartoon Face Extremely Well Done Tattoo
Simpsons Cool Funny Tattoo
Butt Face Bart Simpsons Cool Funny Tattoo
Im Pickle Rick And Morty Skin Art Funny Tattoo
Beavis And Butthead Corn Holio Scrip Funny Tattoo
Tiny Flower Power Tattoo
Waldo Behind The Ear Tattoo
Hand Poke Mini Chair Line Art Funny Tattoo
Yeah Bitch Now What Dinosaur Sleeve Funny Tattoo
Dinosaur Skeleton Realistic Fine Line Tattoo
Tea Rex Cup Funny Tattoo
Mathematics Snake Pit Flower Tattoo
Scorpion Traditional Dark Work Tattoo
Classic Japanese Sucky Fish Funny Tattoo
Stapler On Jelly And Onion Funny Tattoo
Berlin Lego Home Made Style Tattoo
Ignorant Style Funny Tattoo
Dead Inside Sad Black Ink Tattoo
Haters Gonna Hate Unicorn Funny Tattoo
Fuck This Shit Fusion Unicorn Funny Tattoo
Male Tears On The Rocks Hand Glass Funny Tattoo

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