General rules: Take turns! Games are no fun if someone hogs them. You bastards. Whoever can't think of a response is the loser. Laugh at them, then start a new game.

1. Friendliest Rodeo Clown In the West. Don't play this game with children! Think of all the names you could call an "easy" woman. We started out with "Bitch" and ended up with ...well, "Friendliest Rodeo Clown In the West." Similar games may be played with men as the object, or sheep-lovers, or lawyers, or whatever. Recommended for groups under 4 people.
   
   
2. The Wookiee Files. Choose a topic: movies, books, TV shows, etc. Replace one word in the title with the word "Wookiee." Be as funny as possible. Recommended for any number of players; also good as a free-for-all rather than turn-taking game.
   • "On Her Majesty's Secret Wookiee"
   • "Can't Buy Me Wookiee"
   • "Lady Chatterley's Wookiee"
     
     
3. Alliteration. Choose a word. Take turns listing other words that start with that sound. When you run out, choose another starting sound and begin again. Recommended for groups under six people.
   
   
4. Weevil's Quotations. Replace a word in a famous quote with the word "weevil". Recommended for groups under six people.
   • "Give me liberty or give me weevil."
   • "All that glistens is not weevil."
   • "What we've got here is a failure to weevil."
     
     

5. Unused Steven Seagal Movie Titles. If you already read the webpage on this one, don't bother playing the game. Or do, but play with people who don't know about the page and you'll have a secret edge on them.

   Basically, Steven Seagal movie titles need to be constructed such that an announcer can say "STEVEN SEAGAL IS--" and then the title of the movie. "STEVEN SEAGAL IS--PAINFUL BUNION MAN!" Like that. This is surprisingly fun. Recommended for any number of players; also good as a free-for-all rather than turn-taking game.
   
   

6. Studio 54, Where Are You? This is an entertaining game of off-by-one name replacement. You think of a TV show, movie, etc. and one or more of its stars. Then replace their names with the names of other famous people who share a similar name.

   Examples:

   • John Travolta, Paul Newman, George Burns, and Ken Starr are The Beatles.
   • Roger Moore in Striptease.
   • Patrick Swayze in Star Trek: The Next Generation

   
   This game requires considerably more thought than any of the other games. For the most fun, do not stretch the rules. Using "Fred Gwynne" to replace "Gwyneth Paltrow" is taking it too far. Character names are also out. No matter how funny "Michael J. Fox" replacing "Fox Mulder" is, it's disallowed.

   Furthermore, you can only use genetically related pairs if the people are of opposite sexes. Tony Curtis/Jamie Lee Curtis and John Barrymore/Drew Barrymore are both allowed; Billy Baldwin/Alec Baldwin or Martin Sheen/Charlie Sheen are not. Recommended for small groups of advanced players only.
   
   

7. A Pouch Full of Ponies. In my quotes file, there is a Jeff Gerstmann quote that contains the phrase "a big pouch full of ponies". The point of this game is to think of a type of container, and then an alliterative animal to go in that container. Recommended for small groups, particularly ones containing young children (who seem to find this terribly funny to listen to).
   • A pouch full of ponies
   • A carryon full of camels
   • A rucksack full of ravens
   • A sixpack of salamanders
     
     
8. The Man Who Melted Jack Dann. Nathaniel and I did not invent this one. The game is to take a book and its author that mesh in some interesting way to form a sentence.
   • Growing Pains Laura Valentine
   • See the Man Who Melted Jack Dann website for more examples.
     
     
9. Casting Call. Recast the main roles in movies, either seriously or humorously. This game has a wild card actor: Christopher Walken. If you can't think of someone for a role, you have to cast Christopher Walken, even if the role is female. Recommended for two players.

   There are a number of play variations:
   Variation #1: Switch-off. Player One comes up with a movie, and recasts it. Then it is Player Two's turn.
   Variation #2: Dare. Player One comes up with a movie, and Player Two must recast the main roles. Then Player Two comes up with a movie, and Player One recasts it.
   Variation #3: Double Dare. Player One comes up with a movie and an era or style, and Player Two must recast in that era or style. ("The Fifth Element, Golden Era!" "The Princess Bride, film noir!").
   Variation #4: I Have a Dream. Player One comes up with a movie, and recasts one of the main roles with the person they would have liked to see play it. Player Two must recast the rest of the main roles around that actor--using only people that have been in other movies with them.