19 memes to prove musicians have a warped sense of humour

18 November 2020, 17:39

A celebration of the jokes we love to share, and our strange muso brains.

We love to share funny memes in our choir cliques, our string squads. But take a step back and think, our sense of humour is quite warped isn't it? I mean, with any other audience, all these classical music jokes would fall ♭.

1. Other people probably just don't get us

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2. And our intense love for anything that has a harmonic pun.

   

3. And if there’s ever an innocent typo, how we laugh!

   

4. “Wait, humans don’t have six fingers!”

   *laughs hysterically in musician*

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5. We like to make fun of other voice parts (for some reason)

   

6. And instruments other than our own (but obviously, mainly violas)

   Take it away, violinist Ray Chen....

   

   BEST VIOLA JOKE (said to a violist)

7. It’s impossible for us not to laugh when talking about violas (for some reason)

   

   Try Not to Laugh: VIOLA JOKES Edition

8. Why is it always so funny? We are strange creatures.

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9. If you ever want to impress a musician, just notate something. They always find it funny.

   

10. We also love jokes about not counting

    

11. So much humour with Bach

    gotta be classy #theBACHlorette pic.twitter.com/ktCrdnhzV9

    — Orch Dork Problems (@orchdorkprobs) August 10, 2014

12. Because, you know, it also sounds like the noise a dog makes

    Because it's #NationalDogDay.
    
    Dog: '#Bach'
    Humans: 'He's classically trained.'#CartoonAtNoon #DogDay pic.twitter.com/OSS2zu0gZW

    — Opera North (@Opera_North) August 26, 2015

13. And chickens too

    

14. Whenever something looks like a piano keyboard, we lose our minds

    

15. We’d be like “finally, a piano I can easily transport”

    

16. We structure so many jokes around the assumption we were talking about this century...

    

17. Because jokes about the 1800s never date.

    

18. In terms of our brand of comedy, hand sizes are everything.

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19. And the best punchline to literally every musician joke?

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