I keep hearing about how you shouldn’t laugh over your own jokes but when I watch a video or listen to a podcast, I find it much more authentic and likable when they laugh over their own jokes in a conversation. You know, vibes.
- dumbass ( @dumbass@leminal.space ) English61•6 days ago
People who say you shouldn’t laugh at your own jokes are either sad, sad people or have never told a funny joke or story ever.
There’s jokes and stories I’ve been saying for 20 years that still make me laugh as I’m saying it.
Be a man, laugh at your own jokes.
- Wrufieotnak ( @Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ) 10•6 days ago
Followed your advice, now my husband complains I’m not the woman he married anymore.
- bobs_monkey ( @bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ) 3•6 days ago
Laughing sounds like one of them “emotions” that aren’t sposed to exist for real manly men, so says the teevee
/- Cleetus
- TheAlbatross ( @TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 22•6 days ago
Oh, laugh if you feel like laughing!
Life is too short to worry about what should be done in which vibe.
- qyron ( @qyron@sopuli.xyz ) 15•6 days ago
If someone is about to tell me a joke and start laughing mid first sentence it’s a sign that is either going to be very good or so bad it will become good.
Let them laugh!
- The Dark Lord ☑️ ( @TheRaven@lemmy.ca ) 8•6 days ago
This right here is the best answer in my opinion. Regardless of the story, the teller is just so into it that they can’t stop laughing. You’re probably going to end up laughing with them.
- Iapar ( @Iapar@feddit.org ) 8•6 days ago
I am indifferent to it because i think it is just logical that people laugh about their own jokes. They have a thought that makes them laugh so they want to share it.
Why should I share a joke that doesn’t make me laught?
- BougieBirdie ( @Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English8•6 days ago
I feel like “don’t laugh at your own jokes” is a piece of ancient wisdom from the entertainment industry.
Like, if you’re a performer and you’re laughing so hard that you can’t get the punchline out, then it prevents people from actually hearing the joke.
When you consider that performers in traditional media have a limited time slot to work in, then taking a break to laugh could be considered a waste or unprofessional.
I don’t think that long-format content has the same problem. If you’re making an online video or a podcast then you’re not limited by time. Authenticity is more important than fitting into a five minute set
- NeoToasty ( @NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org ) 5•6 days ago
If it takes them several attempts to tell me something and they’re laughing all the way through it, I assume it’s going to be bad or underwhelming.
I’ve personally heard some of the best ones were when someone keeps themselves steadied enough to tell what a funny story is or what a joke is but then break into laughter towards the end. Just enough to finish the bit.
- shikitohno ( @shikitohno@lemm.ee ) 4•5 days ago
It depends on why they’re laughing for me. Lots of terribly unfunny people essentially provide their own real time laugh track to signal “This is the funny part, laugh please,” which gets old real quick. They also tend to laugh incredibly hard at their own jokes, far more than is merited by the actual joke. Unfunny people trying to force a joke like that get old fast.
On the other hand, I don’t take issue with having a bit of a laugh with everyone else when you land a good one. On rare occasion, there are even jokes that wind up funnier because they’re just so hilarious that the person telling them can hardly get them out without busting up themselves.
I have no opinion but I feel like laughing is mostly involuntary when its genuine.
- ditty ( @dditty@lemm.ee ) English2•4 days ago
The only time it can get annoying is if it disrupts the telling of the story multiple times, but I’m also impatient in general
- communism ( @communism@lemmy.ml ) 2•5 days ago
Sometimes I laugh on purpose to indicate that I’m joking.
- 1ns1p1d ( @1ns1p1d@lemm.ee ) English2•5 days ago
My coworker has that kind of sense of humor where he always says the obvious joke you’re hoping nobody will make. Then he laughs, and for some reason, everyone else does.
Also, whenever he helps someone and they thank him, he says, “That will be 10 dollars,” and then laughs about his joke.
The reason i hate it is this: He’s a lazy, quiet-quitting asshole who everyone likes. I, on the other hand, work my butt off. I appreciate a witty, clever sense of humor. However, I’m socially awkward, so nobody likes me!
- Default_Defect ( @Default_Defect@midwest.social ) English5•5 days ago
Did we change what quiet quitting means again? Doing his job and nothing more is a bad thing now?
- 1ns1p1d ( @1ns1p1d@lemm.ee ) English2•5 days ago
Doing the least amount possible to keep a job puts pressure on coworkers to take up the slack. I work in an ER, not an office. When someone is in the bathroom texting, more than they are out on the floor helping its shitty, yes.
- Default_Defect ( @Default_Defect@midwest.social ) English2•5 days ago
Being a liability isn’t what I would consider most people’s definition of quiet quitting, especially in that sort of environment.
- 1ns1p1d ( @1ns1p1d@lemm.ee ) English2•5 days ago
You may be right, but it was a quick and dirty way of making my point. I didn’t expect the Reddit Inquisition to be here yet.
- Default_Defect ( @Default_Defect@midwest.social ) 4•5 days ago
“Everything i don’t like is reddit” you could have just ignored me instead of being butthurt about it
- 1ns1p1d ( @1ns1p1d@lemm.ee ) English2•4 days ago
It was a joke. I originally wrote Spanish Inquisition, but thought it was funnier to call it the Reddit Inquisition. Sorry for my buttholiness.
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English1•4 days ago
Nobody expects the Reddit Inquistion!
- DancingBear ( @DancingBear@midwest.social ) 1•5 days ago
👀
- Hammocks4All ( @Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml ) 1•5 days ago
To lol or not to lol
- Sudo Sodium ( @chottomatte@lemdro.id ) English1•4 days ago
No because I personally laugh over my extremely silly jokes
- beliquititious ( @beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•5 days ago
Fuck that. You should or shouldn’t do whatever you want. I laugh at my own jokes all the time, even when I am alone, or haven’t said the joke out loud. People find it much more off-putting if you just randomly start laughing.
Anyone who has a problem with someone laughing at their own jokes either has trauma or is an asshole not worth anyone’s time.
- OneMeaningManyNames ( @whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml ) English3•6 days ago
OK with laughing over your own joke, but if you burst out and are not even able to finish uttering it, then I think this is a bit childish.
- amelia ( @amelia@feddit.org ) 1•4 days ago
I think those are the best ones.
- OneMeaningManyNames ( @whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml ) English1•4 days ago
Sure. But others must also have a chance to hear them too.
- Juliana ( @Juliana@sopuli.xyz ) English1•6 days ago
Lol