15 of the Greatest ‘Yo Mama’ Jokes in the History of the World

15 The 3,500-Year-Old Yo Mama Joke

Found on a Babylonian tablet from around 1500 BCE comes what is being regarded as the first “Yo Mama” joke ever recorded: “...of your mother is by the one who has intercourse with her. What/who is it?”

Unfortunately, the who or what the mom in question was having sex with has been lost to time, but historians are pretty sure that whatever it was, it was as devastating as seeing your mama.

14 ‘White Chicks’ Rich Girl Takedowns

What White Chicks may lack in a logical premise, it more than makes up for with solid Yo Mama jokes like, “Your mother’s so dumb, she went to Dr. Dre for a pap smear!” among other hilarious exchanges.

13 ‘The Campaign’s Trash Talk

“You know what the difference between your mama and a washing machine is? When I dump a load in the machine, the machine doesn’t follow me around for three weeks.”

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12 ‘Silicon Valley’s Simple Comeback

“Where did you get those sunglasses; did they come with the car?”

“...These are from your mom.”

11 Shakespeare’s ‘Titus Adronicus’

Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done?
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.

10 ‘The Fresh Prince’ Could Slap Yo Mama

“Yo mama so dumb, she went to movies, and it said ‘Under 17 not admitted,’ so she went home and got 16 of her friends.”

9 Muscle Man’s Mom in ‘Regular Show’

Muscle Man uses a subversive version of the Yo Mama format that makes his own mother the butt of the joke. Oddly enough, it works, and he doesn’t seem bothered by it.

8 Mama Gets ‘30 Rocked’

“Yo mama is so stupid, she thinks an iMac is a new hamburger at McDonald’s.”

7 The Buddy Love Yo Mama Marathon in ‘The Nutty Professor’

“Yo mama’s so fat, she fell in the Grand Canyon and got stuck!”

6 Eddie Pepitone and Kaseem Bentley’s Kindness Yo Mama Roast

In a meta version of the Yo Mama roast, Pepitone and Bentley got aggressively complimentary about their mothers and each other to a hilariously and devastatingly loving degree.

5 Health Problems from ‘Key & Peele’

4 ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ (But Neither Can Yo Mama)

“Yo mama so poor, I seen her kicking a can down the street, I said, ‘What are you doin’?’ And she said, ‘Movin.’”

3 George Wallace Likes Yo Mama

“I do really like yo mama. I just saw her at Home Depot. You know her teeth are so crooked that she got a job making keys, but that’s a whole different story.”

2 Cartman Doing Self-Own Yo Mama Jokes to Beat His Friends to the Punch

“My mama’s so poor she waves around a popsicle and calls it air conditioning.”

1 Lavell Crawford’s Mama’s Yo Mama Joke

“Yo mama so nasty she sucked your daddy’s dick and came here and kissed you goodnight!”