gray hair jokes
Aging humor targets
Jokes that target aging, typically ribbing someone about getting old, slowing down, or being out of touch.
The gray hair is metonymic—the jokes are really about decline, irrelevance, or advancing years: He turned fifty and the gray hair jokes started immediately.
Common at milestone birthdays and retirement parties.
- silver foxAppealing older gentleman
- agingGrowing older over time
- wrinklesSurface lines from folding
- seniorHigher in rank
- baldWithout hair on head
getting older · midlife · birthday · roast · punchline · wisdom · grandfather · old age · old timer · dye job · roots · distinguished · over the hill · retirement · nursing home · dentures · bifocals · reading glasses
- aging humorsenior moments, senior moment, over the hill, old timer, geezer
- hair humorreceding hairline, split ends