Do you know any jokes about Los Angeles or Angelenos? Drop them here..
An Angeleno doesn’t have friends in other neighborhoods. They have “people I used to see when I lived on that side.”
What happens when the smog lifts in Los Angeles?
UCLA
In LA, everyone has a screenplay, a podcast, or a “startup idea.” It’s just that most of the time all three are unemployed.
An Angeleno invites you over and says, “It’s easy, just take the canyon.” Forty minutes later you’re white-knuckling a one-lane road behind a Prius doing 18, a coyote staring at you like you’re the tourist, and your host texts, “You close? I just got in the sauna.”
In L.A., a first date isn’t “Hi, I’m Alex.” It’s a soft launch: name, pronouns, neighborhood, attachment style, and whether they live east or west of the 101, because geography is also an identity now.
Hollywood Blvd and the Walk of Fame is so much better than the Venice Canals or Runyon Canyon. So if you plan a tourist trip to L.A… (extend the video for the full experience).
New Yorkers pretend they don’t care what you think. Angelenos pretend they do. Both are lying.
In New York, a 400-square-foot / 8k a month apartment is called “charming.” In LA, a 400-square-foot apartment is “a guest house someone forgot to mention.”
Oh the NY vs L.A. battle? ![]()
In New York, “Let’s grab dinner” means a restaurant at 8. In LA, “Let’s grab dinner” means a 6-week group chat, three dietary restrictions & someone suggesting we just do a hike instead.
In NY, “I’m in the industry” means finance, media, or lying. In LA, “I’m in the industry” means they once held a boom mic and still put “actor” in their bio.
In New York they ask if you have a job. In LA they ask if the job scales.. and if not, whether your parents do.
An Angeleno doesn’t fall in love.
They fall in alignment -> with your zip code, your last round and whether your house has a view of anything but the 405.
Money doesn’t buy happiness, she whispered, already googling whether your building has a doorman and a screening room.
Nobody in West Hollywood is late. They’re coming from the gym, which may or may not have involved exercise.
An Angeleno will spend an hour explaining why they don’t own a car anymore, then ask if you can pick them up from a place that is, geographically, still Los Angeles, but spiritually so far it might as well be another time zone.