Guide · 2026
Best Gag Gifts & Prank Mail (2026)
The 10 most complete gag gifts & prank mail listings on Crazy Useless, ranked by how much verified public information each publishes: description, services, pricing, and a live website. 63 are listed in this category. Order is not a quality rating, and no listing pays for its rank.
- 1
Archie McPhee
Seattle's long-running purveyor of deliberately absurd novelties, from rubber chickens and tiny hands to bacon-scented everything and finger monsters. The catalogue leans hard on Bigfoot, crows, pickles, cats and axolotls, and much of it is designed in-house.
- Listed under Gag Gifts & Prank Mail, Party Novelties
- 5 services listed, including novelty gifts, rubber chickens, finger puppets
- Serves the whole US
- 2
Blue Q
Designing and manufacturing what it calls life-improving, joy-bringing products since 1988, Blue Q is best known for socks and zip bags carrying blunt one-liners. Designs are made with independent artists from around the world.
- Listed under Gag Gifts & Prank Mail, Indie Makers & Small Studios
- 5 services listed, including novelty socks, zipper bags, catnip toys
- Serves the whole US
- 3
The Mincing Mockingbird
Matt Adrian's studio, trading with The Frantic Meerkat, selling paintings of birds with menacing captions plus cards, magnets and books in the same deadpan register. It describes its output as pretty and funny.
- Listed under Indie Makers & Small Studios, Gag Gifts & Prank Mail
- 5 services listed, including art prints, greeting cards, magnets
- Serves the whole US
- 4
The Unemployed Philosophers Guild
Makes smart, funny gifts for people who like knowing things: finger puppets of historical figures, disappearing-civil-liberties mugs, and socks bearing dead philosophers. The jokes reward a liberal-arts education.
- Listed under Gag Gifts & Prank Mail, Indie Makers & Small Studios
- 5 services listed, including finger puppets, heat-change mugs, socks
- Serves the whole US
- 5
Vat19
An online curiosity shop that built its audience on short videos demoing each product it sells. The range runs to giant gummy candy, oddball gadgets, puzzles and party games, with many items produced under Vat19's own label.
- Listed under Gag Gifts & Prank Mail, Desk Toys & Fidgets
- 5 services listed, including curiously awesome gifts, giant candy, party games
- Serves the whole US
- 6
Gift Republic
A UK gift publisher with a broad novelty range: scratch-off posters, adopt-a-plant kits, trivia games, novelty mugs and grow-your-own sets. Products are grouped by joke theme as much as by category.
- Listed under Gag Gifts & Prank Mail, Party Novelties
- 5 services listed, including novelty gifts, scratch-off posters, trivia games
- 7
Chez Gagne
Operating under the motto "if you can't make it nice, make it funny", Chez Gagne sells rude greeting cards alongside a clean-ingredient bath and beauty line with the same sharp voice on the labels.
- Listed under Indie Makers & Small Studios, Gag Gifts & Prank Mail
- 5 services listed, including greeting cards, hand creme, shower steamers
- Serves the whole US
- 8
~Pourri (Poo-Pourri)
The company behind Poo-Pourri, the before-you-go toilet spray that turned a bathroom taboo into a cheerfully rude brand built on viral ads. It has since expanded the ~Pourri line into car, pet, shoe and trash fresheners using plant-based essential oils.
- 4 services listed, including toilet spray, car fresheners, pet odor products
- Serves the whole US
- 9
BigMouth Inc.
Best known for giant, ridiculous pool floats shaped like everything from slices of pizza to unicorns, plus oversized drinkware and novelty gifts. The brand trades on scale: if a normal version exists, BigMouth makes an absurdly large one.
- Listed under Party Novelties, Gag Gifts & Prank Mail
- 4 services listed, including giant pool floats, inflatables, novelty drinkware
- Serves the whole US
- 10
Exploding Kittens
The game studio behind Exploding Kittens, Throw Throw Burrito, Bears vs Babies and You've Got Crabs. Its titles are built around silly art and physical chaos rather than heavy rules, and several started as record-setting crowdfunding campaigns.
- Listed under Party Novelties, Gag Gifts & Prank Mail
- 4 services listed, including party card games, dodgeball card games, puzzles
- Serves the whole US