The ultimate gag gift guide for your office holiday party

GAG GIFTs
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Whether your squad's into White Elephant, Secret Santa, or Progressive Pollyanna, chances are you're going to have some sort of holiday present exchange this year requiring a gag gift.

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Instead of turning up with the same selfie stick you've brought to your work party for the last two years, why not think outside the box?

The internet is full of insane gag gifts that will have everyone in your family or your office praising your immense creativity and pop culture savvy.

Keep reading to see 16 of our favorites.

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"Hotline Bling" needlepoint

hotline bling needlepoint
Etsy

Show just how hip you are to the viral zeitgeist by turning up at your holiday party with a handmade and hipster-y "Hotline Bling" needlepoint.

Available on Etsy, there are several varieties to choose from, including Drake in silhouette dancing and Drake crying and thinking about when someone used to call him on his cell phone.

Price: $20-$26

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Prosthetic man bun

clip in man bun
Groupon

After years of lurking on the most gentrified fringes of pop culture, the sensual and trendy "man bun" officially entered the mainstream this year.

The only issue: it takes a while to grow one. So if you're a latecomer to the man bun craze, how can you get the Legolas-like look? With a clip-in, of course! We tracked down a Groupon deal that's selling the buns for only $10.

But here's a simple lifehack if you run out of time: stop by Claire's or Ricky's and buy a clip-in bun for girls, then just give it to a dude. Instant man bun!

Price: $10

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Bill Clinton change purse

bill clinton change purse
Official Sean Penn

Whether you agree with his politics or not, you have to hand it to potential First Husband Bill Clinton: he can really rock a jogging outfit.

So why not cop this beautiful pouch, replete with Clinton-inspired fitspo, and bring it to your gift exchange? Who wouldn't want to gaze upon those gams every time they reach for change at the laundromat?

As a bonus, by buying one of these pouches, you're supporting hilarious viral content creator Official Sean Penn — instant internet street cred!

Price: $12

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Nicolas Cage throw pillow

nicolas cage throw pillow
Society6

Your friends will love you for tossing this chic and swanky piece of home decor into the gift grab bag. Who wouldn't want to look up from their Netflix binge to see Nicolas Cage's dignified mug staring past them from this pillow?

You can buy this pillowcase from Society6 in three sizes, for indoor or outdoor, and with or without a pillow inside.

Price: $20 to $39

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Kanye School of Kanye sweatshirt

kanye school of kanye
Rad.co

 

Get this for the Kanye major in your life and watch the haters in your midst shake their heads in disappointment. What a conversation starter!

Price: $20

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"Christmas Vacation" sweater

ugly sweater
Holiday Fury

Only people who are intimately familiar with "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" will understand this sweater's reference — but those are the best people anyway, so go for it!

Price: $60

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Beard face warmer

beard warmer
Etsy

Not everyone can grow a beard, but it's safe to say everyone's face would be just a little bit warmer if they had one.

So why not acquire a handmade beard-shaped face warmer and bring it to your holiday party? Whoever ends up with it in the grab bag will definitely thank you when it comes time to head out into the cold winter's night.

Price: $19

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Emoji wine glasses

emoji wine glasses
Etsy

The possibilities are endless when it comes to emoji wine glasses. 

If you're ordering them from Etsy, you can pick your favorite four emojis. Everything from the eggplant to the ghost to the purple devil guy is up for grabs.

And hey, if you're a true emoji aficionado, you could even just keep three for yourself and only give one to the gift exchange. Nobody has to know! 

Price: $50 for four

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Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake Ultimate Inception Mug

jimmy fallon mug
Etsy

Earlier this year on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," Justin Timberlake told a story of how Fallon's kitchen is inundated with coffee mugs printed with people's faces.

Timberlake then mailed Fallon a photo of himself with a mug bearing his face.

Fallon retaliated with a mug featuring that photo, then they made another one, and so on. The end result looks like brain-teasing, endless abyss of mug photos. Hence, the Inception Mug.

And now you can buy one on Etsy and bring it to a party!

Price: $13

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Kim Kardashian prayer candle

kim kardashian prayer mug
Etsy

Kim Kardashian had a pretty solid year. Why not canonize her with a church candle bearing her visage?

Etsy user GrannysHopeChest says these candles are "treated with a hand-applied clear gloss texture which gives them a faux 'stained glass' effect," unlike the many knockoffs proliferating Etsy.

Price: $8.99

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Miley What's Good? T-shirt

miley what's good
Etsy

It was the VMA acceptance speech heard 'round the world: a week after Miley Cyrus talked trash about Nicki Minaj to the New York Times, Nicki Minaj accepted an award and said into the microphone, "Miley, what's good?"

The succinct verbal smackdown became possibly the most gif'd moment of the night. And now, you can help your friends and family relive it forever and ever by gifting them with a T-shirt bearing Minaj's three-word kiss-off.

Price: $18

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Christmas emoji leggings

christmas emoji leggings
Poprageous

Both leggings and emojis should be deployed with caution — you never know how someone might take them.

So why not combine them in a pretty awkward but definitely conversation-starting gag gift? Matching shirt optional.

Price: $65

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Squirrel throw blanket

squirrel throw blanket
Society6

It looks really warm!

Price: $49

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Trump hat

trump hat
Etsy

If your main goal this holiday season is to send a chorus of groans through the room at whatever party you get invited to, then this is the gift for you.

This "Make America Great Again!" hat bears the slogan made popular by Donald Trump earlier this year. Just don't bring it to a family party, or you might inadvertently find out that one of your uncles is a Trump fan. 

Price: $18.99

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Furby

furby
eBay

You remember Furbies, right? They were like little robotic Gremlins that never stopped talking, but were for some reason the most sought after toy of the 1998 holiday season.

They were also one of those toys that was supposed to be "worth a lot of money" later on like Beanie Babies. But unsurprisingly, that never really panned out. Now, you can get one for as little as $11.50 on eBay. 

So go get one and make everyone at your holiday party feel nostalgic!

Price: $10 and up

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