Funny / Big Nate

Big Nate has been around for 30 years and counting, so it's expected that it gets in some hilarious stuff. Examples include:

Comic Strips

• The avalanche of garbage that spills out of Nate's locker is always good for a laugh, such as the time where he put it on a thirty-second delay to catch Gina off guard.
• In one strip, Nate and Francis are binder-shopping. Francis spends the majority of the strip raving about the awesomeness of binders he finds. He then asks Nate which binder he'll take. Nate takes a binder, whacks Francis in the head, and then buys it.
• Nate is explaining comic gags to Chad. He says that in comics, you can have the gag happen in the second-to-last panel and then have the last panel be a reaction. Cue a monkey run past them.
  Nate: Now, where was I?
• This Prank Day strip, which just show what Nate can really do.
  Francis: Somebody just let a flying squirrel loose in the computer lab!
  Nate: Yeah, that was me.
  Teddy: A squirrel? Isn't that kind of tame for the guy who calls himself "Mr. Prank Day"?
  Nate: That was only part one. (A moose walks by. Francis and Teddy look on, wide-eyed.)
  Teddy: I assume that was part two?
  Nate: (smirking) I went with a Bullwinkle theme.
• "I'M TRYING TO DO MY TAXES!"
• Francis provides this burn upon Nate's insistence of having a near-death experience:
  To have a near-death experience, don't you need to have a life?
• Anytime Nate starts raving. Special mentions go to this guy and this gem.
• "You got a C, Teddy got a C plus, and Francis got P.T.S.D!" "I'm scared."
• Nate asks a girl to sign his yearbook. She writes, "Nate, you're the weirdest kid in school."
  Nate: (writing in his yearbook) Okay, so I'll change "weirdest" to "studliest".
  Francis: (Aside Glance) Most people don't edit their yearbook entries.
• In one arc, Nate is desperately trying to find a date to a dance. A girl comes up to him, saying that she feels sorry for him... so she gives him a hand puppet. Next thing you know, Francis and Teddy are playing with it. See it here.
• "I have no idea why, but I'm grounded for a week."
• Everything about the 2007 school picture day arc, where Nate's lip is swelled due to Teddy hitting him in the mouth with a basketball. Especially since School Picture Guy thinks at first that Nate injected his lips with collagen. Probably the best part is this exchange:
  School Picture Guy: I thought I'd seen it all, but never have I laid eyes on something like this! A sixth-grader resorting to collagen injections in his lips!
  Nate: I got hit in da mouf wif a bathketbaw!
  School Picture Guy: A pox on this beauty-obsessed society!
• Nate once tried to come up with a middle name for himself. Two of the names he comes up with: "Funkmeister" and "Maximus".
  Teddy: Very modest.
  Francis: Is that a name or a male enhancement supplement?
• Most of the time when Nate starts Suddenly Shouting. Such as this or this gem
• This strip involving Nate and Artur playing Monopoly.
  Nate: If you get a 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, or 12 you land on my hotels! If you get a 10, you land on my utility! If you get a 6 you land on my railroad! (as Artur tosses the dice) You're dead meat, Artur! Dead meat!
  Artur: Eleven! Am not dead meat after all! Am lively meat!
  Nate: Oh, how I hate him.
• While a sad storyline overall, one strip after Angie dumps Nate has him playing in a chess tournament. He channels his hate at being dumped to his opponents. One didn't even play him.
• Some of the drop-off panels that contain Nate's cartoons can be pretty funny.
• "Ooh, my hair is tingling! Just like in that dandruff commercial!"
• "I can make myself invisible."
• "That's the first time in my life I've ever been compared to Charlie Sheen".
• In one strip, Nate mentions that he got a week of detention for changing Mrs. Godfrey's ringtone to "Weird Al" Yankovic's Fat.
• In a 1994 arc, Nate submits a comic strip, The Snuggles Family, to a newspaper syndicate. He ends up receiving a rather blunt yet perplexing rejection letter, which Francis reads.
  Francis: "Dear Mr. Wright: Your recent comic strip submission, The Snuggles Family, is saccharine, trite, cloying, obsequious, and utterly putrescent."
  Beat.
  Nate: I'm not sure, but I think I've just been insulted!
  Francis: I'll get the dictionary.

Chapter Books

• Nate gives a good point about why he doesn't care for school:
  Nate: Okay, I'll admit that I'm not exactly Joe Honor Roll, but answer me this: When I get out there in the real world, is anybody going to care whether or not I know who was vice president under Warren G. Harding? (And don't try to pretend that YOU know who it was, because you don't.)
  • Nate being Nate, this doubles as an Epic Fail on his part. Given that Harding died in office...his vice president was Calvin Coolidge, as in the guy who was his immediate successor as president.
• "A walrus ate my homework."
• Nate's answer to teachers telling him he should be more like his sister: "Right, like that's my goal in life: to be more like a high school cheerleader."
• When Nate starts thinking about ways to get out of the test, he sits on a rock and poses like the Thinker statue. Spitsy even copies him!
• Nate being referred to as "Spiky-haired kid".
• Teddy's Establishing Character Moment:
  Teddy: Hey, Nate! Taking a nap? Or are you doing the world's slowest push-up?"
• Nate's reaction to the announcements starting:
  Nate: Oh, boy. Announcements. The excitement never stops around here.
• In Big Nate Flip Out, Nate got a funny shot◊ of Gina’s reaction when Randy got his chess question wrong.

TV Series

• Principal Nichols throws the controller for his drone behind him and hits Mr. Galvin by accident.
  Mr. Galvin: OW! MY STERNUM!