Enjoy a collection of 51 hilarious Thanksgiving jokes and riddles perfect for all ages. These lighthearted humor pieces add fun to your holiday gathering, making family moments more memorable and joyful with clever puns and playful riddles about turkeys, pumpkins, and harvest themes. Ideal for entertaining guests and spreading holiday cheer.

Top 51 Funniest Thanksgiving Jokes and Riddles for All Ages

Get ready to bring laughter to your thanksgiving! As you gather with loved ones for a festive meal, enjoy some lighthearted humor with our collection of 51 funny Thanksgiving jokes and riddles, complete with answers. Suitable for all ages, these jokes range from puns to playful riddles, adding joy and fun to your holiday festivities.

Thanksgiving humor with answers

1. How do salt and pepper greet guests?
Answer: "Season’s greetings!"

2. What has ears but cannot hear and flakes without hair?
Answer: Corn

3. Which Thanksgiving dish smells the best?
Answer: Your nose!

4. Why did the turkey skip dessert?
Answer: It was already full!

5. What sport do pumpkins enjoy?
Answer: Squash

6. Why did the turkey cross the street?
Answer: To avoid being a chicken!

7. Why do chefs cross the road?
Answer: To get the turkey!

8. Which side of the turkey has the most feathers?
Answer: Outside!

9. What do you call rainy weather on Thanksgiving?
Answer: Foul weather

10. Why was the turkey invited to join the band?
Answer: It had its own drumsticks!

11. How do tiny pumpkins cross roads?
Answer: With a crossing gourd.

12. What sound does a turkey’s phone make?
Answer: “Wing-wing”

13. Why is corn so popular during Thanksgiving?
Answer: Because it's “a-maize-ing”!

14. How does a limping turkey sound?
Answer: Wobble, wobble!

15. Why do turkeys gobble?
Answer: They haven't learned good manners yet.

16. What’s a turkey’s favorite dessert?
Answer: Peach gobbler.

17. What fruit do scarecrows prefer?
Answer: Straw-berries.

18. Why was last year's turkey seasoning strange?
Answer: Due to a thyme shortage!

19. What’s the potato’s favorite game?
Answer: MASH!

20. Where do turkeys go to dance?
Answer: The butter ball!

21. What do you say to the winner of the corn-shucking contest?
Answer: Corn-gratulations!

22. What do sweet potatoes wear to sleep?
Answer: Yammies!

23. Why don’t side dishes tell jokes?
Answer: Because they’re too corny!

24. What do you tell your joke-loving cousin on Thanksgiving?
Answer: You’re on a cass-roll!

25. How does a turkey travel?
Answer: By gravy train.

26. When do you serve a fake turkey?
Answer: On Pranksgiving!

27. Why do turkeys love rainy days?
Answer: They enjoy fowl weather!

28. Knock knock! Who’s there?
Arthur! Who?
Arthur any leftovers?

29. Where do turkeys come from if leaves come from trees?
Answer: Poultries!

30. How do turkeys cross the ocean?
Answer: On a gravy boat.

31. Why did the turkey see a doctor?
Answer: It was feeling a bit stuffy.

32. What do you call a strong turkey?
Answer: Buff-et.

33. Why did the pumpkin pie visit the dentist?
Answer: To get a filling.

34. Cross a turkey with a centipede, and you get?
Answer: Drumsticks for everyone!

35. What do you say when leaving Thanksgiving early?
Answer: Pie-pie!

Funny jokes for teens on Thanksgiving

36. Did you hear about the rude turkey?
Answer: It was jerk-y.

37. When are turkeys most thankful?
Answer: The day after Thanksgiving!

38. Why should secrets stay in the cornfield?
Answer: Because the corn has ears!

39. What's a fun song to sing while cooking turkey?
Answer: All About That Baste.

40. Why did the turkey bring a microphone?
Answer: Ready for a roast!

41. What's the value of a pumpkin's circumference over its diameter?
Answer: Pumpkin pi.

42. Why was the Thanksgiving soup expensive?
Answer: Because it had 24 carrots!

43. How do we feel on Thanksgiving—scared or joyful?
Answer: Stuffed!

44. Why did the cranberries turn red?
Answer: Because they saw the turkey dressing!

45. What's the dance move for Thanksgiving?
Answer: The turkey trot!

46. What do you call a ghostly turkey?
Answer: Poultrygeist!

47. Why did the scarecrow get an award?
Answer: Because it was outstanding in its field!

48. Can a jumping turkey outjump the Empire State Building?
Answer: Yes, buildings can't jump!

49. Who was alone at Friendsgiving?
Answer: The turkey.

50. What do you get if a turkey lays an egg on a barn?
Answer: An egg-roll.

51. Knock knock! Who's there?
Mustache! Who?
I mustache you to carve the turkey!

These jokes and riddles are guaranteed to make your Thanksgiving celebration more fun and memorable!