Best Funny Calendars for People With a Weird Sense of Humor

Some people are easy to shop for.

And then there are the people who send you pictures of terrible taxidermy, believe every room could use more Bigfoot, laugh at medieval paintings of cats that barely look like cats, and still think bathroom humor is funny.

Those people need a different kind of calendar.

A traditional landscape or cute-animal calendar might be perfectly nice, but when someone has a genuinely weird sense of humor, "nice" isn't necessarily what you're looking for. You want the calendar that makes them stop, stare at the cover, and ask:

"Why does this exist?"

Preferably while laughing.

At Blue Wolf Calendar Company, weird calendars are something of a specialty. Here are some of our favorite funny and unusual calendars for people whose sense of humor is a little outside the ordinary.

For an overview of this wonderfully strange category, start with our Complete Guide to Funny, Weird, Unusual & Hilarious Calendars.

For the Cat Lover With a Questionable Sense of Humor: Strange Medieval Cats

There are plenty of beautiful cat calendars in the world.

This isn't one of them.

Our Strange Medieval Cats Wall Calendar explores one of the more entertaining corners of art history: old paintings and illustrations in which cats look decidedly unlike modern cats.

Some have strange faces. Some have bizarre proportions. Others look as though the artist received a verbal description of a cat but had never actually encountered one.

The results are simultaneously fascinating and hilarious.

This is a particularly good choice for someone who likes cats, history, old artwork, or things that are unintentionally funny.

For Someone Who Never Outgrew Bathroom Humor: Dumping Dogs in Scenic Spots

Some humor is sophisticated.

This isn't that, either.

Our Dumping Dogs in Scenic Spots Wall Calendar starts with beautiful outdoor scenery and then introduces a dog at a particularly inconvenient moment.

That's the entire concept.

And sometimes that's all you need.

The contrast between majestic scenery and extremely ordinary dog behavior is what makes the calendar work.

It's an obvious choice for dog owners, but it's also a strong contender for gag gifts, White Elephant exchanges, and anyone who continues to believe poop jokes are funny.

For the Cat Person With Even Worse Humor: Fecal Felines

Perhaps the person you're shopping for prefers cats.

Don't worry.

Cats can poop too.

The Fecal Felines Wall Calendar applies a similarly ridiculous concept to the feline world.

It's not subtle.

It's not sophisticated.

And that's why the right person will love it.

This is the kind of calendar you buy when a normal cat calendar would be far too predictable.

For Someone Who Thinks All Animals Are Funny: Crapping Creatures

Why should cats and dogs get all the attention?

Crapping Creatures opens the concept to a much larger portion of the animal kingdom.

It's exactly the sort of gift where you already know whether the recipient is the right person.

If you read the title and immediately thought of a particular friend or family member, you've probably answered the question.

That's one of the advantages of shopping for someone with a weird sense of humor: sometimes the perfect gift announces itself immediately.

For People Who Prefer Their Bathroom Humor Slightly Different: Wild Animals Whizzing

There's more than one bodily function available to build an animal calendar around.

Wild Animals Whizzing proves it.

Like our other animal bathroom-humor calendars, this isn't intended to be taken seriously. It's for the person who appreciates absurd animal photography and doesn't need their wall décor to be particularly dignified.

Put it in an office, bathroom, garage, workshop, or anywhere else that could benefit from 12 months of questionable taste.

For the Person Who Sends You Bad Taxidermy Pictures: Taxidermy Fails

Bad taxidermy has a special quality.

You know what the animal is supposed to look like.

Then you see what happened.

The Taxidermy Fails Wall Calendar celebrates unfortunate attempts to preserve animals that didn't exactly go according to plan.

Odd proportions, bizarre expressions, strange poses, and specimens that seem deeply confused about what species they're supposed to be can all make failed taxidermy unintentionally hilarious.

This is a particularly good calendar for someone fascinated by oddities, curiosities, animals, or humor that wasn't originally intended to be humor at all.

For the Friend Who Loves Bizarre Art: Disturbing Medieval Art

Spend enough time looking through historical artwork and you'll eventually find something that makes you wonder what exactly was happening.

Our Disturbing Medieval Art Wall Calendar leans into that experience.

Medieval artwork can contain strange creatures, unusual imagery, exaggerated expressions, and scenes that can appear utterly bizarre to modern viewers.

That makes it a great calendar for someone who likes history but doesn't necessarily want another calendar filled with the most famous paintings in a museum.

It's weird, interesting, historical, and occasionally unsettling.

In other words, excellent wall-calendar material.

For the Dog Lover Who Also Likes Weird History: History's Oddest Dog Art

Artists have been painting dogs for centuries.

They haven't always painted them accurately.

Our History's Oddest Dog Art Wall Calendar brings together some of the stranger canine representations found in historical artwork.

It's a good alternative to a standard dog calendar because it combines a familiar interest with something unexpected.

Give it to the dog lover who already has plenty of beautiful photographs of dogs.

They probably don't have a year's worth of dogs painted strangely by people who lived hundreds of years ago.

For the Animal Lover Who Enjoys Art Gone Wrong: History's Oddest Animal Art

Dogs and cats aren't the only animals that received questionable artistic interpretations.

Our History's Oddest Animal Art Wall Calendar expands the idea across the animal kingdom.

Before photography and instant access to reference images, artists sometimes had to depict creatures they may never have seen firsthand.

That could produce some interesting results.

For someone interested in art, history, animals, or strange old things in general, this calendar manages to be both genuinely interesting and very funny.

For the Person Who Thinks Cats Need Better Hair: Cats With Mullets

There are ideas that seem obvious only after someone else thinks of them.

Cats with mullets may be one of those ideas.

The Cats With Mullets Wall Calendar combines one of the internet's favorite animals with one of history's most recognizable hairstyles.

Business in the front.

Party in the back.

Cat everywhere else.

It's an especially good choice for cat lovers who already have enough ordinary cat merchandise — or anyone with an inexplicable appreciation for mullets.

For the Adrenaline Junkie Who Also Loves Cats: Extreme Sports Cats

Most house cats spend a significant portion of their lives sleeping.

Our Extreme Sports Cats Wall Calendar imagines a rather different lifestyle.

Instead of lounging on the couch, these cats have embraced adrenaline.

It's absurd visual humor that works particularly well for someone who loves cats but wants something more ridiculous than another collection of cute kitten photographs.

For Someone Who Likes Their Cats Extra Large: Fat Cats

Sometimes the joke doesn't require an elaborate premise.

Sometimes you just need an impressively chunky cat.

The Fat Cats Wall Calendar is for people who find oversized, fluffy, round felines inherently amusing.

Compared with some of the calendars on this list, it's relatively tame.

But for the right cat person, that's part of the charm.

For the Bigfoot Believer — or Skeptic: The Lost Bigfoot Photographs

Bigfoot has been photographed before.

Allegedly.

But what if someone discovered an entire lost collection of photographs documenting Sasquatch's life?

Our Lost Bigfoot Photographs Wall Calendar plays with that idea through vintage-style imagery that imagines Bigfoot in situations beyond the usual blurry silhouette disappearing into the woods.

It's a good gift for serious Bigfoot enthusiasts, casual cryptid fans, people fascinated by conspiracy theories, and skeptics who simply enjoy the mythology surrounding Sasquatch.

The calendar doesn't require you to settle the Bigfoot question.

It just requires you to accept that Bigfoot makes excellent calendar material.

For the Person Who Knows Bigfoot Isn't the Only Cryptid: Cryptids

Bigfoot may get most of the attention, but the world of cryptids is considerably larger.

The Cryptids Wall Calendar explores legendary creatures and mysterious animals associated with folklore, sightings, and popular culture.

It's a good choice for someone fascinated by Bigfoot, lake monsters, unexplained creatures, local legends, and the stranger edges of zoological folklore.

This is less bathroom-humor funny and more "I can't believe there's a calendar about this" unusual.

And that's an important distinction.

Not every weird calendar needs a punchline.

For Someone Who Loves National Parks AND Monsters: National Park Lore

National parks already contain plenty of wildlife.

Our National Park Lore – Cryptids in National Parks Wall Calendar adds a few creatures you probably won't find listed in the official park guide.

The concept combines vintage-style national-park imagery with cryptids, monsters, and folklore.

It's particularly well suited to people whose interests overlap in unusual ways: hikers who also love Bigfoot, national-park enthusiasts who listen to paranormal podcasts, or outdoorsy people who think every forest is improved by the possibility of an unidentified creature hiding behind a tree.

For the Dinosaur Adult: Dinosaurs in National Parks

Children aren't the only people who like dinosaurs.

Some of us simply refuse to stop liking them.

The Dinosaurs in National Parks Wall Calendar takes recognizable American wilderness imagery and introduces significantly more prehistoric wildlife.

It's fun without necessarily being a gag calendar, making it a good choice for dinosaur enthusiasts, national-park fans, and people who enjoy imaginative alternate versions of familiar places.

For the Space Nerd With an Imagination: National Parks of the Solar System

What happens after we've explored all the national parks on Earth?

Apparently, we start creating them elsewhere.

The National Parks of the Solar System Wall Calendar imagines national-park-style destinations beyond our planet.

It's an unusual combination of space, travel, retro-inspired imagery, and imagination.

For someone fascinated by astronomy, science fiction, space exploration, or national parks, it's the sort of calendar they probably wouldn't think to search for themselves.

Which is precisely why it can make such a good gift.

For Dad: Dad Jokes

Dad jokes aren't really about the joke.

They're about the reaction.

The ideal Dad joke produces one laugh from the person telling it and several groans from everyone else.

Our Dad Jokes Calendar keeps that tradition going throughout the year.

Obviously, it's a natural gift for dads.

But biological fatherhood isn't actually required. There are plenty of people capable of producing Dad jokes regardless of parental status.

If someone regularly tells jokes that make everyone else roll their eyes, you've found your recipient.

For the Coworker Who Has Had Enough: The Disgruntled Employee's Guide to the Daily Grind

Some office humor requires years of professional experience to fully appreciate.

Unnecessary meetings.

Corporate jargon.

Deadlines.

Emails.

Monday mornings.

And the strange collection of minor annoyances that somehow become universal parts of working life.

The Disgruntled Employee's Guide to the Daily Grind is designed for people who appreciate that style of workplace humor.

It can make a particularly appropriate coworker gift — provided the recipient and workplace share the joke.

If you're actually planning to hang a funny calendar at work, our guide to the best wall calendars for an office can help with the practical side of choosing one.

For Someone Who Isn't Sure Whether Clowns Are Funny or Terrifying: Clowns in the Wild

A clown at a circus is expected.

A clown standing somewhere it absolutely should not be is a different experience.

The Clowns in the Wild Wall Calendar takes clowns out of their usual environment and puts them into unexpected settings.

The result can be funny, bizarre, creepy, or some combination of all three.

If your friend loves clowns, they'll appreciate it.

If they're terrified of clowns...

Well, that's between you and your friend.

For Someone Who Believes the Mullet Never Died: Mullets

Few hairstyles have achieved the cultural status of the mullet.

The Mullets Wall Calendar celebrates the hairstyle famous for putting business in the front and a party in the back.

It's a particularly good novelty gift for someone nostalgic for past decades, someone who currently has a mullet, or someone who simply finds the hairstyle inexplicably entertaining.

Bonus points if the recipient once had one and photographic evidence still exists.

How Weird Should You Go?

When choosing a funny calendar for someone else, the most important consideration isn't necessarily which calendar is funniest.

It's which calendar is funniest to that particular person.

A Bigfoot enthusiast may love Lost Bigfoot Photographs but have absolutely no interest in bathroom humor.

A cat lover may think Strange Medieval Cats is hilarious but find clowns horrifying.

Someone fascinated by art history may genuinely enjoy History's Oddest Animal Art even without treating it purely as a joke.

That's why unusual calendars can make such personal gifts.

Instead of buying something generically "funny," you can match the weirdness to the person.

Funny Calendars Make Particularly Good Gifts

A funny calendar also solves one of the biggest problems with novelty gifts: usefulness.

Once the recipient finishes laughing at the cover, they still have a functioning calendar.

They can use it to keep track of appointments, birthdays, vacations, deadlines, and other events throughout the year.

And every month they get a new image.

That's considerably more staying power than the average gag gift.

If you're buying for someone else, our guide on how to choose a calendar as a gift covers some additional things to consider.

What About White Elephant Gifts?

This is where weird calendars really shine.

A good White Elephant gift should create a reaction when someone opens it.

That's relatively easy when the package contains pooping animals, questionable taxidermy, medieval cats, Bigfoot photographs, or mullets.

But the best White Elephant gifts aren't necessarily the ones nobody wants.

They're the ones that are funny and desirable enough for someone to steal.

A weird wall calendar can accomplish both.

We'll cover White Elephant gifts in much more detail elsewhere in this series, but if you're shopping for a gift exchange right now, funny calendars are worth considering precisely because they're unusual without being useless.

The Best Funny Calendar Is the One That Reminds You of Someone

That's really the test.

You shouldn't have to convince yourself that a funny gift works.

You should see it and immediately know who it's for.

Maybe that's the friend who won't stop talking about Bigfoot.

The coworker who communicates almost exclusively through Dad jokes.

The cat-obsessed sibling.

The medieval-history nerd.

The dinosaur adult.

The person who sends you weird animal pictures at 2:00 in the morning.

Or the family member who will laugh at poop jokes until the day they die.

Normal calendars are easy to find.

But normal isn't always what you're shopping for.

If the person on your gift list has a weird sense of humor, embrace it.

You can explore even more ideas in our Complete Guide to Funny, Weird, Unusual & Hilarious Calendars or browse the Blue Wolf Funny & Gag Calendars collection to find the particular kind of weird that fits them best.