The Big Little Book of Bad Jokes
Puns, one-liners, and wonderfully awful jokes made for quick laughs, shared eye-rolls, and the person who always has one more joke to tell.
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Jesse Walls.
Truck driver by trade, author by accident. I write fiction, collect gloriously bad jokes, and find stories somewhere between the open road and the next delivery.
Behind the byline
The long road into writing.
Most days, I’m behind the wheel of a 10-car transporter, moving vehicles around New Zealand’s South Island. Writing grew in the spaces between runs—one-liners, odd ideas, and stories that refused to stay parked.
My work runs in two very different lanes: deliberately bad jokes and fiction. One is built for instant laughs and enthusiastic groans; the other gives me room to slow down, build a world, and see where the characters take it.
South Island
New Zealand roads, towns, and long-haul days.
Two lanes
Quick-fire humour alongside original fiction.
One rule
If the joke earns a groan, it probably stays.
On the page
What I write.
From pocket-sized punchlines to stories with room to breathe.
The Empty Chair series
The other side of my writing: an original fiction series, developed one chapter and one stubborn character at a time.
More from this world is still to come.Keep safe, keep self, keep south.
Jesse Walls