Two cannibals were eating a clown, and one says to the other, “Does this taste funny to you?”

It helps to have a sense of humor on April Fool’s Day, especially for those at the receiving end of pranks — a place golfers often feel they visit year-round. To help put it all in light-hearted perspective, we’ve corralled a few brews that don’t take themselves too seriously — except when it comes to flavor. These taste splendid, not funny, but they pair well with jokes.

Clown Shoes Hoppy Feet
Mercury Brewing Company, Ipswich, Mass. | 7% ABV
Speaking of clowns, this one puts its big feet down in black IPA territory, a relatively new beer world category people can’t quite agree on (others call the style Cascadian Dark Ales). As you’d expect with an India Pale Ale, this is loaded with hops; as you wouldn’t expect, it’s black. What we’d like to see — like those old clown cars — is an endless stream of bottles pouring out of the refrigerator. www.clownshoesbeer.com

Wilco Tango Foxtrot
Lagunitas Brewing Company, Petaluma, Calif. | 7.8% ABV
If it weren’t a brewery, Lagunitas might be a stand-up comic with expert timing. Being the first under the wire with a WTF beer in a WTF zeitgeist is no mean feat. The seasonal was first brewed in 2010 (“Malty, Robust, Jobless Recovery Ale”) as a riposte to the 2009 Correction Ale, when no economic correction seemed to be happening. Luckily, this brown ale happens big time. www.lagunitas.com

Delirium Tremens
Huyghe Brewery, Belgium | 8.5% ABV
Make a strong beer, name it after the severe effects of acute alcohol withdrawal and then festoon the label with dancing pink elephants. That takes some ballsy whimsy, and this heady golden ale has been such a hit since its introduction in 1989 that it has spawned two sequels, a dark Delirium Nocturnum (9%) and a Christmas beer, Delirium Noel (10%). www.delirium.be

Old Leghumper
Thirsty Dog Brewing Co., Akron, Ohio | 5.8% ABV
As the label puts it, “So many legs … so little time,” a notion that has made this robust porter the flagship beer of the Ohio brewery, which names all its beers doggy-style. With spring on the horizon, a bock wouldn’t be stylistically out of order, so there’s always the Maibark alternative. www.thirstydog.com

Monty Python Holy Grail Ale
Black Sheep Brewery, Masham, England | 4.7% ABV
This is the beer for those familiar with the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow and those who eat ham and jam and Spam a lot. It’s actually a fairly straightforward but sturdy pale ale, and despite what the label says, no witches were burned during production.
www.blacksheepbrewery.com

And here’s one for the road: A skeleton walks into a bar and says to the bartender,
“I’d like a beer — and a mop.”