“Oh my God, a talking muffin!” (joke)
“The muffin joke”—as the famous joke is called—is really an anti-joke:
“Two muffins are sitting in an oven. One muffin says, ‘Boy, it sure is hot in here.’ The other one responds, ‘Oh my God! A talking muffin!’”
The joke has been cited in print since at least 1998, and it has been printed on many images. “Oh my God, a talking sausage!” is another version of the joke.
Google Groups: alt.music.smash-pumpkins
Colors of SP
LunaBloom7
8/14/98
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there’s these two muffins in the oven. and one muffin says, “hmm. it’s hot in here.” and the other muffin says, “hey look! a talking muffin!” ... wait, it gets better. these two pieces of toast are in the microwave. and one piece of toast says, “it sure is hot in here!” and the other piece of toast says, “who the hell puts toast in the microwave?” thank you.
Google Groups: alt.religion.christian-teen
Concerning Clones
mich pharm
2/26/99
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Q: Two muffins were sitting in an oven. One of them said “It sure is hot in here.” What did the other muffin say?
A: Oh my God, a talking muffin!!
10 March 2003, Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI), pg. D1:
Dopey joke o’ the day
Courtesy e-mailer Jim Debilzen: Two muffins are sitting in an oven. One muffin says, “Boy, it sure is hot in here.” The other one responds, “Look! A talking muffin!”
Google Books
Really Silly Jokes
By Cyl Lee
Edna, MN: ABDO Publishing Company
2004
Pg. 16:
Two muffins are baking in the oven. One muffin says to the other, “Isn’t this great! We’re turning such a lovely golden brown.” The other muffin screams…”AHHHHHH! A TALKING MUFFIN!”
Google Books
Only Joking:
What’s So Funny About Making People Laugh?
By Jimmy Carr and Lucy Greeves
New York, NY: Penguin Books
2006
Pg. ?:
Two muffins are in the grill. The first muffin says, “Boy, it’s hot in here.” The second muffin says, “I don’t believe it! A talking muffin!
Twitter
C.K. Sample III
@cksample
@Ray and Leo: Two muffins are in an oven. One muffin says “Holy shit it’s hot in here.” Other muffin screams, “HOLY SHIT! a TALKING muffin!”
8:15 AM - 5 Mar 2007
New York (NY) Times—TierneyLab
The Muffin Joke? Stop, You’re Killing Me
BY JOHN TIERNEY March 14, 2007 5:51 pm
I’d hoped to start parsing your theories on the gender gap in laughter today, but first we must deal with an emergency. In a shocking and unexpected development, readers reported laughing out loud at the muffin joke.
I can’t bear to retype the joke, but you can find it here in my column on laughter. It was supposed to be an example of utterly unfunny joke that will elicit laughter in certain situations, like hearing it told by your boss. It never occurred to me that reading my column was one such situation.
Urban Dictionary
The Muffin Joke
A widely known joke of uncertain origin involving two personified muffins residing within an oven.
Has been regarded as the best, worst, most over-told, most under-appreciated, most clever, and/or most lame joke in history. As with most well known jokes, there are many different versions, usually with small changes to the phrasing of their location and the first muffin’s comment, but faithfully ending with “HOLY SHIT, A TALKING MUFFIN!”.
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by TwiztedMessiah September 22, 2010
YouTube
OMG A Talking Muffin!!
Ariella Mc
Published on Nov 30, 2011
A play on the classic muffin joke. My cousin runs a theatre group and this year they are putting on Annie, so she asked me to make an advertisement for it using her favorite joke. 😊
Who Searches This Stuff?
Oh my God, a Talking Muffin
Submitted by: craig on 28/10/13
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Why were people searching it?
This is actually a joke: Two muffins are in an oven. One muffin says to the other, “Man it’s hot in here.” The other muffin goes “Oh my god, a talking muffin!”
As you can tell, the joke is lame as sh*t and if you laughed, you need to go and sort your life out. Sorry, but it’s terrible. Some people on a forum even classed it as the best joke ever. We have no hope for them.
Reddit—Jokes
Two muffins are sitting in the oven…
submitted October 9, 2015 by tagelthebagel
The first muffin turns to the second and says “Oh gee, it sure is hot in here!” The second muffin turns to the first and says “Holy SHIT A TALKING MUFFIN!!!!!!!!”
A Way with Words
Steamed Bun
Posted by Grant Barrett on March 20, 2017
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Muffin Anti-Joke
The tradition of the German antiwitz or anti-joke includes a groaner that starts with a couple of muffins sitting in an oven. When one muffin complains about the heat, the other muffin exclaims incredulously, “Oh my god, a talking muffin!”