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Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
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Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most

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Do you know what sounds better than a really savage insult? A fatal comeback. One that completely shuts down your opponent, ending your exchange right then and there, and leaving no room for interpretation about who the winner is.
Interested in one-liners that can achieve all of this, Reddit user u/random-joe-shmoe submitted a question to the platform, asking: "What is the greatest comeback to an insult you've ever heard?" and people delivered.
Turns out, some of us actually have the superpower to come up with a brilliant response on the spot and not the shower three days later. Continue scrolling and check out some of the best replies to the post!

#1

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
“There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair,” - Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson
538points

#2

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
Joe Pyne interviewing Frank Zappa
Joe: "I guess your long hair makes you a woman."
FZ: "I guess your wooden leg makes you a table."
532points

#3

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
Woman I work with, but don’t like, was in a MOOD one morning. Male colleague comes in, after putting up with her for a bit, looks at her and says, ‘Are you on your period or something?’. She turns around and stony-eyed says, ‘I woke up in a pool of blood and if you don’t shut up, you’ll end your day the exact same way.’ Never respected her until then.
492points

#4

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
A french manager and a Karen were arguing.
Karen: customers are kings.
Manager: you're in France, here we decapitate kings.
480points

#5

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
During WW1, Switzerland had a tiny standing army, but they were very skilled marksmen. Wilhelm II of Germany asked what 250k Swiss troops would do if he decided to invade with 500k German troops.
The Swiss said, "Shoot twice and go home."
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469points

#6

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
Winston Churchill, of course.
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
432points

#7

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
Context: John Oliver from HBO interviews Stephen Hawking (may he rest in peace)
JO: And there may be a universe where I am more intelligent than you?
SH: There may even be a universe where you are funny.
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406points

#8

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
David Letterman: I'm not as dumb as I look.
Tina Fey: How could you be?
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397points

#9

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
A guy makes fun of his bald friend by rubbing his head and saying, "Wow, your head is as smooth as my wife's bottom." The friend also rubs his head and says, "Wow - you're right."
355points

#10

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
A friend in highschool on our way to a track meet. He was staring at a car in the parking that was really nice. When this dbag saw him.
Dbag: “why bothering looking at that when you know you’ll never be able to get one?”
My friend: “the same reason you watch adult movies”
The entire bus erupted and it’s still one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
341points

#11

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
in middle school a boy asked when I was going to grow some boobs. So I asked him when he was donating his......
I'm still really proud of that one.
333points

#12

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
English class in Middle School
Kid A - "yo, Kid B, your mama waited on me at McDonalds last night. Must feel like s**t having a mom that works at McDonalds"
Kid B- " at least MY mom gets out of bed to go to work"
English teacher far louder than he realized "DAYUM!"
The rest of us were laughing so hard, the teacher next door popped her head in to see what was going on...
329points

#13

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
My mom was a librarian and pulled this one on a rude patron.
"Are you getting smart with me?"
"Would you be able to tell?"
324points

#14

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
Someone yelled out in a Walmart , “I’m not ashamed of who I am”. Another voice echoed back, “that’s your parents job”
312points

#15

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
Ghandi after a Reporter asked him a question.
Reporter: What do you think of Western Civilisation
Ghandi: I think it would be a good idea
306points

#16

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
18th Century British radical politician John Wilkes was told in parliament by a political opponent "Sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox".
Wilkes shot back with "That depends, my lord, on whether I embrace your lordship's principles or your mistress."
302points

#17

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
It's gotta be the Aliens locker room scene for me.
Hudson: "Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"
Vasquez: "No, have you?"
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286points

#18

Someone Asks People To Share The Best Comebacks They've Heard, They Deliver 40 That Burned The Most
Saw a clip of a standup comedian the other day, and he says something along the lines of "the first time I had sex it was terrible... the first time I had sex..." and a woman chimes in with "you mean yesterday? " crowd laughs for a while, and while the comedian is waiting for them to calm down you can see the gears turn in his head, once it gets down to basically a few chuckles, he just says "Glad you remember " and the crowd just lost their [marbles], it was amazing
284points

#19

Air Traffic Control doing a poor job of vectoring an Airbus A330 in for landing. Pilot: "You've left us too high, I don't think we can make the approach." ATC: "You've got speedbrakes on that thing, don't you?" Pilot: (After a noticeable pause) "Yes, but those are for my mistakes, not yours."
270points

#20

When my younger brother was about 5 he would hold up a picture of an ape and say "Hey, look in this mirror", to which my older brother replied "That's a picture of an ape but I see why you thought it was a mirror."
268points
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