--- title: Sarah Silverman and Stephen Colbert Read Bad Kids Jokes: Video description: The jokes were rejected submissions from the Bad Kids Jokes Tumblr canonical: https://time.com/4072985/stephen-colbert-sarah-silverman-bad-kids-jokes/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-14T14:32:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:59.328Z og:title: Watch Stephen Colbert and Sarah Silverman Tell Terrible Jokes Written by Kids og:description: The jokes were rejected submissions from the Bad Kids Jokes Tumblr og:url: https://time.com/4072985/stephen-colbert-sarah-silverman-bad-kids-jokes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fc0564943b8e9e0/6988682ff887dc2d27e92d77/screen-shot-2015-10-14-at-10-05-30-am.png?branch=production&width=1050&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1050 og:image:height: 591 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-10-14 at 10.05.30 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Stephen Colbert and Sarah Silverman Tell Terrible Jokes Written by Kids twitter:description: The jokes were rejected submissions from the Bad Kids Jokes Tumblr twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fc0564943b8e9e0/6988682ff887dc2d27e92d77/screen-shot-2015-10-14-at-10-05-30-am.png?branch=production&width=1050&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Stephen Colbert and Sarah Silverman Tell Terrible Jokes Written by Kids > Sponsored content. 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Colbert explained that he’s a big fan of the [Bad Kids Jokes](http://badkidsjokes.tumblr.com/) Tumblr, which curates real jokes written by kids. He got his hands on some of the rejected submissions, and invited Silverman to recite them with him. “That might be smart–in a way we don’t get,” Silverman said after a particularly nonsensical joke. “That might be meta.” Watch the full segment here: _Read next:_ [_Watch John Legend and Stephen Colbert Sing ‘America the Beautiful’_](http://time.com/4053731/john-legend-stephen-colbert-america-the-beautiful/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4072985/stephen-colbert-sarah-silverman-bad-kids-jokes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4072985/stephen-colbert-sarah-silverman-bad-kids-jokes/"},"headline":"Watch Stephen Colbert and Sarah Silverman Tell Terrible Jokes Written by Kids","datePublished":"2015-10-14T14:32:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:59.328Z","description":"Get ready to pity laugh","url":"https://time.com/4072985/stephen-colbert-sarah-silverman-bad-kids-jokes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fc0564943b8e9e0/6988682ff887dc2d27e92d77/screen-shot-2015-10-14-at-10-05-30-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fc0564943b8e9e0/6988682ff887dc2d27e92d77/screen-shot-2015-10-14-at-10-05-30-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-10-14 at 10.05.30 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4072985/stephen-colbert-sarah-silverman-bad-kids-jokes/","name":"Watch Stephen Colbert and Sarah Silverman Tell Terrible Jokes Written by Kids"}}]}] ```