Guardian Australia’s new column The Funniest Things on the Internet was launched in lockdown as a way to bring a little joy to readers sorely in need of it. For each column, a famously funny person list the videos, tweets and links that never fail to make them laugh – but throughout the year, readers have told us they want to take part too. So, here’s your chance. Please join us in the comments with a link to the funniest thing you’ve seen online in the past year: it can be a tweet, an Instagram, a TikTok, a video, a headline, an article ... anything that isn’t offensive, defamatory or mean-spirited, really. To get you started, Guardian staff have picked theirs. Nick Lutsko on Gremlins 3 2020 is the year of things we didn’t know we needed: tiny face shields for babies, QR codes and Zoom drinks (the latter of which we all stopped needing fairly quickly). But what about something really important that we didn’t get? Nick Lutsko is fighting for our right to a third Gremlins movie. I’m not sure whether it’s Lustko’s face growing increasingly red and sweaty, or the line, “We could have had Gremlins 6 and Gremlins 7 / Instead we got Covid and 9/11”, but I am not ashamed to say I have watched this video many, many, many times this year. Lustko is also the possessed mind that brought us the hits “Oh baby love me, make me leak like Giuliani” and “the Republican National Convention theme song 2020”, as well as a romantic ballad to his wife that is also about which of their cats pissed on the bed. – Helen Sullivan James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump impression In a sea of Trump impressions, actor James Austin Johnson’s are comfortably the best. It’s not just the voice, which is near perfect, or the lips and the grimace: it’s the content. He captures the perfect meandering, freeform improv style of Trump – which, you soon realise, has the exact same cadence as an observational comic testing out new material. And these are genuinely hilarious pop culture riffs – it’s two jokes at once. My personal favourite is the Pokemon one below. As writer Ben Jenkins pointed out on Twitter, it’s so evolved he can even do the voice of Trump imitating someone else’s voice. If the references are too nerdy for you, the Scooby Doo one is just as good. – Naaman Zhou Helen Bidou on coming out of lockdown When most of Australia emerged from the first lockdown, Anne Edmonds’ Helen “Silky” Bidou perfectly summed up how everyone felt about it in this incredibly chaotic-energy clip for the ABC’s At Home Alone Together. After Victoria went into a second lockdown, this got a fair amount of rerun in my group chat. We were definitely not good to go. – Josh Taylor This baby and champagne incident I’m with Michael Rowland on this. I must have watched it at least 900 times and I still laugh every time. (The baby is not hurt! It would have been hurt if the glass had broken all over it. Saving the glass was obviously the safest way to proceed. Also, the funniest.) – Gabrielle Jackson Omelette du fromage guy This is a perfect video, every element works. From the protester’s mask and sunnies, the little shimmy of understanding, the presenter falling apart, the chaos in the background and, finally, the exquisite tribute paid to French cuisine – and if you’re in the know, a certain episode of the classic cartoon Dexter’s Laboratory. The best thing to come out of 2020. – Mostafa Rachwani Doesn’t your husband have nipples??? The true story of a beleaguered vet tech. The inventive, deeply manic animation. The autotuned narration of a Karen’s comeuppance: “Ma’am! No! STOP! THOSE ARE HIS NIPPLES!!” Everything about this is perfect and I have made too many people in my life watch it too many times. – Steph Harmon Get off my lawn guy “Can you guys get off the lawn please?” he yelled, stopping the prime minister Scott Morrison in his tracks as he was spruiking the Homebuilder grants program. “Hey guys I’ve just reseeded that!” It was the media pack that was doing the most damage, so Morrison urged them to move from the grass while staying socially distanced. “Sorry, man,” the man said, returning the PM’s thumbs-up before heading back inside. – Nino Bucci This handy tweet-guide In both form and function, this is a perfect tweet. It manages to be savage yet sweet; zeitgeisty yet completely approachable. I hope its handy emoji dot points even persuaded a few potential Karens – upset about a term they hadn’t fully grasped the nuance of yet – that they could, in fact, be Kims. Goodness knows, we need more Kims. – Alyx Gorman What have you learned, sir? In this age of Zoom meetings, live camera screw-ups are dime-a-dozen, but this clip of a mishap by NBC News national security correspondent Ken Dilanian sticks with me. Host Craig Melvin’s practiced cadence runs straight into a wall as Ken realises he’s hung up on the control room. The tortured look on Ken’s face, the timing of the camera cutaway, the pure emotion in the two bits of profanity that fly out of Ken’s mouth. After hearing Ken succinctly expressing what we’re all feeling in this hell of a year, Craig’s terse “OK” after two to three seconds of silence is just the icing on the cake. – Patrick Lum Fuck you Ezekiel / #fyoutony There’s no greater joy than a good swear in times of crisis, and this meme never fails to deliver. There’s a long story behind the original but the animal versions were uploaded on TikTok mid-year. Now there are countless variations in all corners of the internet – #fyoutony – but my favourite is still the @ob_kush’s version with a dog and deer. When we found it on a sleepy Sunday morning, my partner and I replayed that 17-second clip over and over again, laughing harder every single time. Ever since, I’ve taken great delight in shouting, “Fuck you Ezekiel” – just because. – Alexandra Spring This tweet which is not actually from 2020 Regrettably and despite what my colleagues say, nothing funny has happened this year. I did not laugh or even smile one single time in 2020, or for several years before that. For that reason I have been forced to include this Tweet by US Senator Chuck Grassley, which also doubles as an ancient artefact from the distant internet past (2009). I first saw The Tweet last year, in Patricia Lockwood’s brilliant London Review of Books essay The Communal Mind. She uses it as an example of “phrases that only half a per cent of people on earth would understand, and that no one would be able to decipher in 10 years’ time”. This is true. Presumably in 2009 PantsBurnLegWound would have made complete sense to me. Maybe it was a type of TikTok dance, I don’t know. All I know is that here, in the year 2020, it is very funny. – Michael McGowan What’s the funniest thing you’ve seen on the internet this year? Join us in the comments; we’ll compile the top responses in a follow-up piece soon