Situational Comedy Writing Prompts

You accidentally listed yourself as an "Infernal Medicine Doctor" instead of an "Internal Medicine Doctor" on your resume, now you keep getting request from the underworld to go help cure demons with ailments of all kinds, let's see how far this new life takes you.

"Do you know who usually wins a magic duel when it turns into a fistfight? The answer is: the magician who first realises that the duel has turned into a fistfight."

The new employee is clearly a mimic attempting to fit in. Everyone is aware of this, but the mimic is just so innocent and precious that they just accept them.

“Mom…Dad…I’m…” “Gay? We know sweetheart. And we still love yo—-“ “No I’m—“ “Trans too? Oh don’t worry dear we always kind of knew…” “No for the love of god I’ve been turned into a vampire!!”

You invented a machine. Paper bills get dropped in, seeds dispense from the top. The local crows quickly discovered the wondrous vending machine and youve been getting an easy 500 a week in passive income. The police haven’t caught on yet, but today there was 500k in the machine.

You are the evil overlord. You've ruled the world with an iron fist. But after you quit being an overlord as you couldn't deal with all the paperwork, a clumsy young female hero burst through your door every day claiming to end your reign. This is her 58th attempt.

Unbeknownst to the villagers, that nuisance of a dragon was actually protecting their village, so when it showed up and yelled “I have been protecting your village for over 15 years, why do you keep sending dragon slayers after me!?” at the mayor, they were very confused.

After the Villain finished their Monolouge stating their True Motivations, the Hero asked a very unexpected question, "Wait, why are we fighting then?"

A dog witnesses something that we humans consider perfectly innocuous and normal, but to them is horrifying. Write from the dog's perspective, don't reveal what the normal thing is until the end.

You've just learned of the exact date of your death, and no matter how hard you try to die before said time you somehow miraclously survive. So to make use of this "gift" you decide to try and become the world's greatest stuntman

In a world where every human has a unique superpower, yours is largely laughed at. The ability to untangle anything has come in handy for untying shoelaces until you discover a new way of using your power that makes you formidable against your former superiors.

An elf absolutely nerds out over human technology, especially weaponry. When he's shipped off to experience it firsthand, he's no less excited.

All throughout your life you've saved the life of the same person again and again. You eventually began joking that you are their guardian angel. When you died and entered heaven you were surprised to see them being berated by an angel. Apparently they were supposed to be *your* guardian angel.

After months, the villain finds the hero, but upon arriving at his home, he discovers the hero in a stained robe, baby food splattered, huge dark circles under his eyes, and a non-stop crying baby. The only thing the hero says is, "My wife left me."

"General! What did I tell you about giving a bored human a screwdriver?" *sigh* "Not unless you want a pile of scrap where your spaceship used to be, with a proud-looking human sitting nearby." "And what did you do?" "I gave the bored human Corporal a screwdriver."

You're an enchanted suit of armor, completely hollow on the inside. After gaining sentience, you left your haunted keep & began to adventure. As you gain notoriety across the land, making friends & connections, it gets harder to keep it a secret that there's nothing behind your visor.

When the king's army drafted you, you planned on faking your death in battle and waiting for a chance to return home. You were so good at fighting that you never got the chance and just kept getting promoted.

An enemy nation has come to steal the royals child as ransom. Here’s the thing, they got things mixed up and stole your kid… you’re the royal necromancer.

'When you get to hell, tell them I sent you!' And when you come to in the fiery wastelands, you tell the bored demon at the gate exactly who killed you. He drops his drink and sputters. All the other demons gasp. Somewhere in the distance, an alarm sounds

Rule 12 of the Official Evil Villain Rulebook™ states that "One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that they spot will be corrected." You, as the local villain you decide to do just that. It soon turns out your plans have quite a few flaws in them.

All of your siblings, papart from you, have attended a prestigious wizarding school. Now, after all these years, they're back in your "regular" world... and don't even know how an oven works.

"Sir I must inform you that you are in possession of an illegal and forbidden item. Please hand it over immediately." You look around your storage room filled to the brim with illegal and forbidden items from all sorts of dimensions and realities.

When his champion returned after many years, proudly spouting off his many accomplishments, the God could only stare, dumbfounded. "What the hell do you mean you saved the world? You were supposed to destroy it!"

When the alien crew learned that humans will go practically insane and be willing to eat anything or anyone when left without food for too long. It led to aliens frantically trying to feed the human crewmate whenever they said they were hungry

You know how old humans will become set in their ways? Obstinate and reluctant to embrace new things? Old elves have the exact same problem, but they've got orders of magnitude longer lifespans.

You, a D-list villain, like to make sure that all the kid superheroes you fight study, so you weave bits of their lessons into your evil schemes.

When you were a kid, you were granted the power to read minds. You used it to learn from the smartest students in your class. Now, you decide to use it on the dumbest student in your class. It moves so quickly you can’t understand what they are thinking.

As a toy maker in your village, you've never thought about security. On a lark, you created an toy that says "State your business" when someone walks in. One night robbers come in. When prompted, they kick over the anamatronic.While lying on the floor, it says "Ah, so you have chosen death"

This is the third time in a row the monster you were wooing has turned into a prince(ss). Good for them and all, but you're starting to feel like you'll never find someone who's your... "type".

You got trapped inside your favorite video game. This isn’t really a problem, since you’re so familiar with it. It is, however, a problem for your parents, who got trapped with you.