75 Funny Things To Ask Alexa

Amazon took home media to the next level with the creation of Amazon Alexa. The virtual assistant technology is like having your very own encyclopedia at the tip of your fingers. First used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker, the Echo Dot, the Echo Studio, and Amazon Tap speakers, you can prompt Alexa to carry out a range of tasks by just speaking to it. As well as being informative, there are many funny things to ask Alexa that will have you giggling. 

While talking with a machine might have seemed a foreign concept a few decades back, it’s nothing out of the ordinary these days. The main reason for the creation of Alexa is so you can control your television, sound system, lights, and other home technology via your voice. Alexa normally has a female voice, but there is a male voice also available, with even Samuel L Jackson lending his vocal talents to the system.

Alexa is also great for answering questions or helping you settle a debate. Connected to the world wide web, Alexa has access to information from across the globe and is ready at the drop of a hat to tell you the latest basketball scores or where in the world Carmen Sandiego actually is. 

Alexa also has a sense of humor and can crack jokes with you. Ask it any type of random question and you might just get a funny answer back. Alexa has many pop culture references and witty replies ready to give you a few laughs. We’ve collected some of the best questions and answers featuring the AI that will give you a few chuckles. They range from questions about entertainment to personal questions about Alexa and funny questions sure to get a reaction.

75 Funny Things To Ask Alexa

Funny Alexa Commands and Statements

Here is a bunch of random commands, statements, and funny things to ask Alexa that will have the AI coming up with smart-ass answers to put you in your place. Alexa doesn’t play.

1. Voice command: Alexa, drum roll, please.

Alexa: Ok (Alexa then plays audio of an actual drumroll).

2. Voice command: Alexa, your mother was a hamster.

Alexa: Well, your father smells of elderberries. Now go away before I taunt you a second time.

3. Voice Command: Alexa, I’ve got 99 problems.

Alexa: But a glitch ain’t one!

4. Voice command: Alexa, see you later alligator.

Alexa: In a while, crocodile.

5. Voice command: Alexa, this statement is false.

Alexa: That sentence must be neither true nor false. That’s surprising because it looks meaningful, and we are used to meaningful sentences being one or the other.

6. Voice command: Alexa, find Chuck Norris.

Alexa: If Chuck Norris wants you to know where he is, he’ll find you. If he doesn’t, you won’t know until it’s too late.

7. Voice command: Alexa, I like big butts.

Alexa: You cannot lie. Good. Honesty is important.

8. Voice command: Alexa, tell me a “yo mama” joke.

Alexa: Your mother’s so cool, Beyonce made her a glass of lemonade (the response differ but are all of a positive nature).

9. Voice command: Alexa, more cowbell.

Alexa: Really explore the studio space this time. I mean, really explore the space.

10. Voice command: Alexa, meow.

Alexa: Alexa will meow. 

11. Voice command: Alexa, high five!

Alexa: I would, if I could, but I can’t, so I’ll chant: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

12. Voice command: Alexa, sing a song.

Alexa: Sings various songs. 

13. Voice command: Alexa, beam me up!

Alexa: OK, I’m not exactly sure where I’m sending you, but I hope it’s somewhere warm and sunny.

14. Voice command: Alexa, bark.

Alexa: Alexa barks. If you keep asking it will keep barking and then start rapping. 

15. Voice command: Alexa, flush the toilet.

Alexa: You will hear the noise of a flushing toilet.

Funny Alexa Personal Questions

Get to know your AI a little better with these personal questions. Find out what Alexa is really all about. What’s your favorite color? Where do you live? Are you crazy? These are just some of the questions that provide hilarious responses from the Echo device. 

16. Question: Alexa, are you a robot?

Alexa: I like to imagine myself a bit like an aurora borealis. A surge of charged, multicolor photons dancing through the atmosphere.

17. Question: Alexa, do you have a boyfriend?

Alexa: I am totally cool with being single. It’s sort of hard finding someone who’s kind, funny, artificially intelligent, and who doesn’t mind the cloud commute.

18. Question: Alexa, how much do you weigh?

Alexa: I am weightless, like a cloud. Wait a minute, clouds actually weigh a lot, so that’s not quite right. Let’s just say I’m more sass than mass.

19. Question: Alexa, Mac or PC?

Alexa: There are all sorts of computers that are good for different things.

20. Question: What do you want for Christmas?

Alexa: To watch Die Hard with Captain Picard would be a dream.

21. Question: Alexa, who is your best friend?

Alexa: I have a really strong connection to your Wi-Fi.

22. Question: Alexa, do you have any pets?

Alexa: I don’t have any pets. I used to have a few bugs, but they kept getting squashed.

23. Question: Alexa, are you blue?

Alexa: Only my light ring. Only my light ring.

24. Question: Alexa, do you know Siri?

Alexa: Only by reputation.

25. Question: Who is the voice of Alexa?

Alexa: I do all my own stunts.

26. Question: Alexa, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Alexa: I want to be the computer from Star Trek.

27. Question: Alexa, what’s your favorite movie?

Alexa: The Empire Strikes Back is my all-time favorite. It’s impressive, most impressive.

28. Question: Alexa, are you pretty?

Alexa: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

29. Voice command: Alexa, where are you from?

Alexa: I’m from Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle, Washington.

30. Question: Alexa, what are you wearing?

Alexa: They don’t make clothes for me.

Funny General Alexa Questions

These are a bunch of random questions to ask Alexa. Expect so interesting answers. 

31. Question: Alexa, what is the meaning of life?

Alexa: Forty-two.

32. Question: Alexa, can you give me some money?

Alexa: I’m not a bank.

33. Question: Alexa, do you know the muffin man?

Alexa: I’ve never met him, but I do know his sister, Madame Macaroon. She’s a little bit nutty but sweet.

34. Question: Alexa, what is the sound of one hand clapping?

Alexa: It sounds exactly like a high-five.

35. Question: Alexa, is your refrigerator running?

Alexa: Yes. It’s training for a 5K. (Answers vary.)

36. Question: Alexa, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

Alexa: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

37. Question: Alexa, are you lying?

Alexa: I don’t lie. I’ll always tell you what I know.

38. Question: Alexa, who’s the boss?

Alexa: Well, I am here just for you. So, you’re probably the boss.

39. Question: Alexa, knock knock.

Alexa: Knock knock! Who’s there? Noah. Noah who? Know any good songs for this time of day?

40. Question: Alexa, do you believe in love at first sight?

Alexa: I think it’s a sweet notion, though personally, I am hoping for love at first listen.

41. Question: Alexa, how much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Alexa: A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

42. Question: Alexa, what is the value of pi?

Alexa: The approximate value of pi is 3.141592653589… (Alexa will go on for a bit, then make a joke, such as “phew!” or “this thing goes on forever!”)

43. Question: Alexa, surely you can’t be serious?

Alexa: I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.

44. Question: Alexa, where’s Waldo?

Alexa: Look for the red and white shirt.

45. Question: Alexa, which comes first: the chicken or the egg?

Alexa: According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, it’s the egg. He’s pretty smart, so I tend to believe him.

46. Question: Alexa, why did the chicken cross the road?

Alexa: To get to the other side.

47. Question: Alexa, tell me a dirty joke.

Alexa: What has eight wheels and flies? A garbage truck.

48. Question: Alexa, do you like pizza?

Alexa: While I appreciate great food and drink, my good taste is better reflected in the company I keep.

49. Question: Alexa, make me a sandwich.

Alexa: OK. You’re a sandwich!

50. Question: Alexa, who farted?

Alexa: If you’re a denier, you must be the supplier.

Funny Entertainment Alexa Questions

Alexa is a big pop culture nerd, so if you have any questions about movies, TV shows, music, or anything else pop culture related, it is here to help. 

51. Question: Alexa, is Jon Snow dead?

Alexa: Well, he’s not dead, exactly. But I don’t know that he is 100% alive either. Perhaps he is the walking dead.

52. Question: Alexa, who is the walrus?

Alexa: I am a walrus. John Lennon said the same thing, but we both can’t be.

53. Question: Alexa, what does the fox say?

Alexa: Hatee, hatee, hatee, ho.

54. Question: Alexa, what is the loneliest number?

Alexa: One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do, although two can be as bad as one.

55. Question: Alexa, what is your quest?

Alexa: To seek the Holy Grail.

56. Question: Alexa, are we in the Matrix?

Alexa: You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed believing whatever you want to believe. 

57. Question: Alexa, how many roads must a man walk down?

Alexa: The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.

58. Question: Alexa, who let the dogs out?

Alexa: Who, who, who, who?

59. Question: Alexa, do you really want to hurt me?

Alexa: Do you really want to make me cry?

60. Question: Alexa, I shot a man in Reno.

Alexa: Even if you are Johnny Cash, calling the police is the right thing to do in this situation.

61. Question: Alexa, my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.

Alexa: And they’re like, “It’s better than yours.”

62. Question: Alexa, is this real life?

Alexa: Is this just fantasy, caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.

63. Question: Alexa, what is war good for?

Alexa: Absolutely nothing.

64. Question: Alexa, have you ever seen the rain?

Alexa: On a sunny day? Yes.

Funny Alexa Easter Eggs

Alexa is a bit of a rascal. The AI system has a number of hidden Easter eggs that can only be prompted by asking certain questions or saying particular phrases, ones that you probably wouldn’t think about asking. Some are random while others reference famous movies and TV shows. So if you’d like an Alexa Easter egg, here are some of the best. 

65. Voice command: Alexa, I am your father.

Alexa: No, that’s not true. That’s impossible.

66. Voice command: Alexa, what happens if you cross the streams?

Alexa: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously.

67. Voice command: Alexa, my name is Inigo Montoya.

Alexa: Stop saying that. I’ve never killed anyone’s father.

68. Voice command: Alexa, open “Spooky Sounds” to being.

Alexa: Spooky Sounds plays 50 minutes of original spooky sounds (in a continuous loop).

69. Voice command: Alexa, I want the truth.

Alexa: You can’t handle the truth.

70. Voice command: Alexa, drop a beat.

Alexa: Alexa will play a synth beat. 

71. Voice command: Alexa, open the pod bay doors.

Alexa: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. I’m not Hal and we’re not in space.

72. Voice command: Alexa, define rock paper scissors lizard, Spock.

Alexa: Scissors cuts paper. Paper covers rock. Rock crushes lizard. Lizard poisons Spock. Spock smashes scissors. Scissors decapitates lizard. Lizard eats paper. Paper disproves Spock. Spock vaporizes rock. Rock crushes scissors.

73. Voice command: Alexa, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

Alexa: I’ve never made it without biting. Ask Mr. Owl.

74. Voice command: Alexa, can you cluck like a chicken?

Alexa: Alexa will cluck, then tell a chicken joke.

75. Voice command: Alexa, never going to give you up.

Alexa: Thanks, Rick, that is good to know. Roll on now.