Every year I look forward to the Lyttle Lytton contest, where people submit the worst opening lines to a fake novel that, god willing, will never actually be written. My favorites from this year:
AND my personal favorite:
There’s also the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest, which doesn’t limit the words/characters of the opening lines… these ones from last year almost killed me
Some of these aren’t actually “funny bad” but just funny though. Like the 2019 Grand Prize winner is full blown Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams quality wit.