Create Your Own Jokes

Another creative skill for Alexa

NOTE: Amazon no longer allows skills to create lists in the Alexa app -- a feature this skill requires. Due to this, Create Your Own Jokes is no longer available. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Create Your Own Jokes

Teach Alexa some new jokes to crack up your friends and family. With Create Your Own Jokes, Alexa tells the jokes you write!

To get started, just enable the skill, giving it permission to access your Alexa lists (this is where your jokes live). Next, say "Alexa, open MY jokes" to get your My Jokes list set up.

With your My Jokes list all set up, it's time to get funny. To add, remove, or edit a joke, simply open your Alexa app, choose Lists from the app menu, and then select the My Jokes list. We've entered a few jokes here to kick things off -- feel free to change or even delete them. Most of all, we're hoping you'll add a lot of your own jokes.

Now, to hear one of your jokes, just say, "Alexa, tell MY jokes"

Be as silly or as clever as you like. Be pun-ny. Write a riddle. Or, maybe have Alexa recite a nonsensical poem. It's all up to you!

Here are a few fun tips and tricks for getting the most out of this skill:

Emphasize Words - Try putting asterisks around a word to emphasize it. For example, try this as a punchline:

French *flies*

Elevate Words - Put underscores around words to make Alexa raise the pitch of her voice. For example, try this:

I'm crying, I'm _crying_

Create-Your-Own-Jokes Cloud - Want to tap into Create Your Own Jokes' world-wide list of jokes? Just enter the word Joke in your My Jokes list. When Alexa sees the word Joke all by itself, she knows to grab a random joke from the Create-My-Own-Jokes cloud. You can also ask Alexa to play a joke from the Create-My-Own-Jokes cloud by saying, "Alexa, ask MY Jokes for a guest joke"

Share your Comedic Genius - The jokes you enter are eligible to become part of the Create-Your-Own-Jokes cloud. Every so often, the friendly staff at Create Your Own Jokes review all the jokes entered by the skill's users and, if deemed good and suitable for the general public (all decisions are final!), they are granted entrance into the world-wide list of jokes.*

Follow-on Jokes - Some of the best jokes consist of multiple parts, where one joke always follows the other. To accommodate this, Create Your Own Jokes always reads from your My Jokes list in order, starting at the bottom (where the oldest jokes live) and reading up to the top (where the most recent jokes live). For example, trying entering this into your My Jokes list:

Why do ducks have flat feet? To put out forest fires.

Then, enter this follow-on joke:

Why do elephants have flat feet? To put out flaming ducks.

Alexa will always read these in order, ensuring our flaming ducks have the comedic impact they deserve. With some creative planning, you could use this feature to group your jokes by theme -- start with knock-knock, move on to road-crossing poultry, and finish off with something black and white and red all over. You could even create a story line!

*If you don't want a joke to be considered for use in the world-wide Create-Your-Own-Jokes cloud, you can exclude it from possible sharing by putting [private] at the end of any joke.