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Humor
Asking AI 10 Life-Changing Questions
By Justin Chen
Humor writer asks AI 10 questions, what happens next is SHOCKING
|| 2025-2026Humor
Plastic Free Day Revolutionizes the World
By Alexis Qian
Plastic Free Day makes students feel not so free.
|| 2025-2026Humor
Government Bans Humor in Schools
The DOE implements yet another ban, now on… humor?
|| 2025-2026Humor
What if Countries Could Talk to Each Other in WWII?
By John Zeng
Waffles and World War Two.
|| 2025-2026Humor
My Stuyvesant Love Life (Gender Neutral Reader)
By Deon Woon
Y/N, who is hoping to focus on their studies at school, suddenly meets some guys that might change everything!
|| 2025-2026Humor
Escalator Breakdowns: Let’s Break it Down
By Nathan Lee
The escalators are frequently found to be broken, but recent events point to internal sabotage.
|| 2025-2026Humor
Fact or Fiction: 20-Minute Homework
By Diya Mallu
We expose the very real battles students face every day trying to complete “20-minute homework.”
|| 2025-2026Features
Grandparental Origins
I’ve had the privilege of knowing all four of my grandparents, and so much of who I am has been shaped by this, often in ways I only recently became aware of.
|| 2025-2026Humor
Trump: America to Join War on Poverty “on the Side of Poverty” [FULL TRANSCRIPT]
Read President Trump’s brief speech addressed to a joint session of Congress urging America to come to poverty’s aid in the War on Poverty.
|| 2024-2025Humor
New Tariffs Will Decimate America[’s McDonald’s]
By Alexis Qian
The latest and of course, very real coverage of the United States’ tariffs.
|| 2024-2025Humor
BREAKING NEWS: Band Room Thrown Into Chaos After Instruments Filled with Bizarre Items
Various band students discover their instruments tampered with and find themselves in sticky situations.
|| 2024-2025Humor
The Spectator’s First Annual Hunger Games
Welcome to The Spectator’s First Annual Hunger Games.
|| April 2021
Humor
Planet Stuy: The Admissions Officer
Join us as we discover the secret lives of the masters of the education system—the admissions officers.
|| 2025-2026
Humor
Pregaming Stuyvesant
By Florence Wu, Isha Rashid, Nicole Lui
A prefreshie visits Stuyvesant for the first time during the Spring Open House—only to find himself amidst a bewildering mix of confusing tests, bizarre assignments, and extraordinary upperclassmen pranks that leaves him questioning reality.
|| 2025-2026
Humor
How to Get Rich Off Leprechauns in 2026
By Kevin Weng
An in-depth guide on capturing leprechauns and using them to fulfill your financial goals.
|| 2025-2026
Humor
Four Types of Stuy Students During Exams
By Adeline Liao
What different types of Stuy students are like with something we’re all familiar with: EXAMS.
|| 2024-2025
Humor
Best Ways to Prank Your Teacher (If You Wanna Get Expelled)
Spectator Humor has created a list of the best prankless harms—err, harmless pranks, to try on your teachers.
|| 2024-2025
Humor
Advice For The SAT
By Seth Fenton
We know the SAT can be incredibly stressful, but luckily, The Spectator Humor Department is here to help.
|| 2022-2023
Humor
To All the Objects We’ve Loved Before
Once schools closed, we reminisced about the beloved objects that we tragically left in our lockers. Through a collection of love letters, we hope to rekindle the strong and blazing passion that was once there.
|| April 2021
Humor
The Editorial Board Predicts Each Other’s Future
The future is looking bright for the 2020 - 2021 Spectator Editorial Board! Here are the editors 20 years into the future.
|| April 2021Humor
Hot n’ Heavy in the Hudson
By Asa Muhammad
Officials at Stuyvesant High School currently under fire for possession of “ludicrous” amounts of child pornography.
|| March 2020Humor
NRA Fears Challenge From Anti-Vaxxers for 2019 Children-Killing Award
The NRA has dominated the child-killing scene for almost a decade. Now anti-vaxxers want to unseat it.
|| April 2019Humor
Stuyvesant Has Tea With Kung Fu Tea
By Jakob Gorisek-Gazze, Neil Sarkar
Jupioca faces controversy after Kung Fu Tea’s closing.
|| April 2019Humor
Could You Be Suffering from Post-SING! Depression?
By Tony Moh
A fake medical diagnosis on the symptoms of acute post-SING depression, partially based on the actual WebMD diagnosis for depression.
|| April 2018Humor
Soph-Frosh Still Celebrating SING! “Win” Over Juniors
Salty juniors talk Soph-Frosh win.
|| April 2018Humor
UNlikely Letters
By Daniel Knopf
Colleges Send Unlikely Letters To Students They Hate
|| April 2018Humor
Teacher Warning Calls
By Daniel Knopf
A list of warning calls for different teachers
|| April 2018Humor
JProm Boat Quarantined On Hudson River
Pending further developments, the JProm party boat has been quarantined on the Hudson River.
|| March 2020
Humor
Hear Me Out… Some Crumbs of Potential SING! Ideas
From a list of dozens of theme ideas generated under the influence of distilled powdered Celsius, we narrowed down the top two.
|| 2025-2026Humor
NRA Fears Challenge From Anti-Vaxxers for 2019 Children-Killing Award
The NRA has dominated the child-killing scene for almost a decade. Now anti-vaxxers want to unseat it.
|| April 2019Humor
Stuyvesant Has Tea With Kung Fu Tea
By Jakob Gorisek-Gazze, Neil Sarkar
Jupioca faces controversy after Kung Fu Tea’s closing.
|| April 2019Humor
Trump: America to Join War on Poverty “on the Side of Poverty” [FULL TRANSCRIPT]
Read President Trump’s brief speech addressed to a joint session of Congress urging America to come to poverty’s aid in the War on Poverty.
|| 2024-2025
Humor
Four Types of Stuy Students During Exams
By Adeline Liao
What different types of Stuy students are like with something we’re all familiar with: EXAMS.
|| 2024-2025Humor
New Tariffs Will Decimate America[’s McDonald’s]
By Alexis Qian
The latest and of course, very real coverage of the United States’ tariffs.
|| 2024-2025
Humor
Best Ways to Prank Your Teacher (If You Wanna Get Expelled)
Spectator Humor has created a list of the best prankless harms—err, harmless pranks, to try on your teachers.
|| 2024-2025Humor
BREAKING NEWS: Band Room Thrown Into Chaos After Instruments Filled with Bizarre Items
Various band students discover their instruments tampered with and find themselves in sticky situations.
|| 2024-2025
Humor
Advice For The SAT
By Seth Fenton
We know the SAT can be incredibly stressful, but luckily, The Spectator Humor Department is here to help.
|| 2022-2023
Humor
To All the Objects We’ve Loved Before
Once schools closed, we reminisced about the beloved objects that we tragically left in our lockers. Through a collection of love letters, we hope to rekindle the strong and blazing passion that was once there.
|| April 2021Humor
The Spectator’s First Annual Hunger Games
Welcome to The Spectator’s First Annual Hunger Games.
|| April 2021
Humor
The Editorial Board Predicts Each Other’s Future
The future is looking bright for the 2020 - 2021 Spectator Editorial Board! Here are the editors 20 years into the future.
|| April 2021
Humor
SING!? More Like SEUNG!
By Aaron Wang, Karen Zhang, Kelly Yip
Principal Seung Yu sent out an email announcing that SING! shall be renamed to SEUNG! and shares his plans for the upcoming event. Exciting!
|| April 2021Humor
Asking AI 10 Life-Changing Questions
By Justin Chen
Humor writer asks AI 10 questions, what happens next is SHOCKING
|| 2025-2026
Humor
Planet Stuy: The Admissions Officer
Join us as we discover the secret lives of the masters of the education system—the admissions officers.
|| 2025-2026Humor
Plastic Free Day Revolutionizes the World
By Alexis Qian
Plastic Free Day makes students feel not so free.
|| 2025-2026
Humor
Pregaming Stuyvesant
By Florence Wu, Isha Rashid, Nicole Lui
A prefreshie visits Stuyvesant for the first time during the Spring Open House—only to find himself amidst a bewildering mix of confusing tests, bizarre assignments, and extraordinary upperclassmen pranks that leaves him questioning reality.
|| 2025-2026Humor
Government Bans Humor in Schools
The DOE implements yet another ban, now on… humor?
|| 2025-2026Humor
What if Countries Could Talk to Each Other in WWII?
By John Zeng
Waffles and World War Two.
|| 2025-2026Humor
My Stuyvesant Love Life (Gender Neutral Reader)
By Deon Woon
Y/N, who is hoping to focus on their studies at school, suddenly meets some guys that might change everything!
|| 2025-2026Humor
Escalator Breakdowns: Let’s Break it Down
By Nathan Lee
The escalators are frequently found to be broken, but recent events point to internal sabotage.
|| 2025-2026Humor
Fact or Fiction: 20-Minute Homework
By Diya Mallu
We expose the very real battles students face every day trying to complete “20-minute homework.”
|| 2025-2026
Humor
Thank you, Principal Contreras
Just a totally normal thank you from Stuy to Contreras.
|| March 2020Humor
Leave Me and My Inbox Alone
I describe the experience of first receiving a college undergraduate program admissions email and then rant about it.
|| March 2020Humor
Report Card Dictionary
An exasperated teacher explains what those report card messages really mean.
|| March 2020
Humor
JProm Boat Quarantined On Hudson River
Pending further developments, the JProm party boat has been quarantined on the Hudson River.
|| March 2020
Humor
Students Walk Out As Protest For Not Shutting Down Schools; Virus Spreads Throughout City
“Yo, I don’t know what God put in the water on New Year’s, [coughing] but de Bruhsio just made it worse.” —Violet, also a Revolutionary
|| March 2020
Humor
How To Survive the Coronavirus: Tips and Tricks From WikiHow
By Helena Williams, Veronika Kowalski
Scared of the coronavirus outbreak? WikiHow’s got you covered.
|| March 2020Humor
Hot n’ Heavy in the Hudson
By Asa Muhammad
Officials at Stuyvesant High School currently under fire for possession of “ludicrous” amounts of child pornography.
|| March 2020Humor
Could You Be Suffering from Post-SING! Depression?
By Tony Moh
A fake medical diagnosis on the symptoms of acute post-SING depression, partially based on the actual WebMD diagnosis for depression.
|| April 2018Humor
Soph-Frosh Still Celebrating SING! “Win” Over Juniors
Salty juniors talk Soph-Frosh win.
|| April 2018Humor
UNlikely Letters
By Daniel Knopf
Colleges Send Unlikely Letters To Students They Hate
|| April 2018Humor
Teacher Warning Calls
By Daniel Knopf
A list of warning calls for different teachers
|| April 2018