Delve into a world where humor thrives on the delightfully absurd and the cheerfully impractical. “As useless as” analogies draw a fine line between the ridiculous and the ingeniously funny, creating a playground for the imagination that delights in the comically futile. Below is a handpicked selection of 30 unique “as useless as” jokes, each crafted to tickle your funny bone with its own quirky brand of logic.
- As useless as a submarine with a sunroof.
- As useless as a chocolate fireplace.
- As useless as ejection seats in a helicopter.
- As useless as a waterproof sponge.
- As useless as a glass hammer.
- As useless as a solar-powered torch.
- As useless as a concrete parachute.
- As useless as a wooden frying pan.
- As useless as a knitted swimsuit.
- As useless as a trapdoor on a lifeboat.

As useless as a paper umbrella.- As useless as a pedal-powered wheelchair.
- As useless as a mesh umbrella.
- As useless as a chocolate teapot.
- As useless as a cat flap in an elephant house.

As useless as a screen door on a submarine.- As useless as a one-legged man at a butt-kicking contest.
- As useless as a silk ladder.
- As useless as a rubber beak on a woodpecker.
- As useless as an ashtray on a motorcycle.
- As useless as a snooze button on a smoke alarm.
- As useless as a white crayon.
- As useless as dehydrated water.
- As useless as a sandpapered soap.
- As useless as a hand-cranked fan.
- As useless as the ‘g’ in lasagna.
- As useless as a tickle in a suit of armor.
- As useless as a left-handed screwdriver.
- As useless as a solar-powered miner’s lamp.
- As useless as a skydiving anvil.
This collection ventures beyond the realm of the practical, inviting you to a world where the only response to absurdity is laughter. Each entry serves as a reminder that sometimes, the most useless things can bring us the greatest joy—at least in terms of laughter.
Where to go next
These thirty are the core of the form. From here, the foodie edition takes it into the kitchen and adds fifty more, and the thirty dad jokes are the same instinct with a punchline attached. The reader-ranked version of this family lives at gotlines.com.