Whether you’re feeling refreshed or still shaking off the weekend, these funny pictures are here to help. Take a deep breath, and let’s start the new month with a much-needed laugh.

Here at Reader’s Digest, we can never get enough dog pictures—and we can never get enough funny dog pictures in particular!

From the coronavirus pandemic to racial justice protests to a closely fought U.S. presidential election, the events of 2020 upended life as we knew it and produced shared grief, disquiet and ...