

A world where everybody suddenly tells the truth no matter what the consequences.Ģ2. An Uber/taxi driver picks up a doppelganger.Ģ1. A mother and her teenage son switch bodies.Ģ0. A disgraced angel who hates humans is forced to live amongst them.ġ8. A man finds a loophole to enter the Miss Universe contest.ġ7.

A janitor enacts hilarious daily revenge on the students that mock him.ġ6. Claus is forced to deliver presents on Christmas after her husband runs off with a stripper.ġ5. A male mermaid falls in love with a female castaway.ġ4. A cowboy is forced to work in the corporate world.ġ3. An unethical CEO of a superstore is ordered by the court to work a month as a cashier.ġ2. An egotistical genius is suddenly stripped of their intelligence.ġ1. A bigot's soul is transferred into a minority's body.ġ0. A character desperate for a job accepts a position as an interpreter, but can't actually speak the native language.ĩ. Someone believes that they are an amazing athlete, but nothing could be further from the truth.Ĩ. Mark Twain is transferred into the future to experience what life is like now.ħ. A world where cats and dogs rule Earth.Ħ. A past arcade game champion from the 1980s quits his job to travel the country getting high scores on classic arcade game consoles.ĥ. A mom is obsessed with wanting to be popular amongst her teenage daughter's friends and peers.Ĥ.

Two opposing football coaches from rival schools fall in love with each other.ģ. Check our our other story prompt lists here!ġ. They may inspire screenplays, novels, short stories, or even smaller moments that you can include in what stories you are already writing or what you will create in your upcoming projects. In the spirit of helping writers find those seeds, here we offer 101 originally conceived and hilarious - or at the very least, slightly humorous - story prompts that you can use as inspiration for your next horror story.

They can come from a single visual that entices the creative mind - a seed that continues to grow and grow until the writer is forced to finally put it to paper or screen. They can come from a scene or moment in a film that wasn’t fully explored. We get our ideas from a plethora of sources - news headlines, novels, television shows, movies, our lives, our fears, our phobias, etc. Most writers are often asked, “Where do you get your ideas from?” A majority of the time, writers find it difficult to answer that question. Do you need some help conjuring compelling comedy ideas? Sometimes reading simple comedic story prompts is the easiest way to find them.
