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Maybe it's the flu I'm having but I had a funny "YouTube comment" on a Harry potter video, on my head and when I came up with it I giggle for a good 30 seconds, my torax started hurting (again due the flu)... Ouch

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago

Well, someone has to!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it's usually the first time I've heard it too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Did that one make you laugh? Because I'm definitely stealing this

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

I constantly come back to jokes or funny things I've written on Lemmy just to laugh at my stupid joke again.

Only humourless people don't laugh at their own jokes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who else is clever enough to grasp all the layers?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Like... An ~~ogre~~ onion?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

If I didn't think it was funny myself, why would I tell it to anyone?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If I don't find my joke funny, why tell it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

To make one's wife groan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Exactly.

Even if I'm the only one laughing, I'm still gonna.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Well someone's gotta

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I'm the funniest person I know even though my wife would disagree

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Sometimes I tell myself a joke in my head that's so funny I laugh out loud. Seemingly at random from anyone else's perspective.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

My jokes are the funniest.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, nearly every time. Gotta be able to laugh at yourself once in awhile

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes it makes it funnier to laugh at your own jokes. Mitch Hedberg laughing at his own filler jokes cracks me up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

One of the reasons he'll always be one of my favorites is because he didn't take himself seriously and called many of his own filler jokes ridiculous. You could almost imagine him amongst the audience, laughing at himself on stage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I write and perform comedy, fairly low-level. To me it's a metronome on the fastest setting between "I am a genius, no one has ever been funnier" and "I can't even write a sentence let alone a joke, a funeral would be funnier"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

if you don't laugh at your own jokes your not being funny enough

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

sometimes but not always.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Obviously. Everyone in my head says I'm hilarious

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yes, if it’s a particularly funny one. There’s somethings I’ve said I still think about though not necessarily laugh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Why make a joke if I'm not going to find it funny? I love to laugh

And live

And love

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yes, because they're not funny, but if I get in the habit of laughing at them myself, someone nearby may not be paying attention and laugh along with me.

That should work, as soon as I have friends to be around me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Harry potter

Cringe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, probably more than I laugh about anything else tbh!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

in real life i usually have a pretty deadpan delivery, so i dont laugh at those for the most part. but when texting/posting online, i usually laugh at the funny ones. maybe it has to do with the time in between when i think of the joke and when i tell the joke. in real life, there's not much time in between for laughter, but typed jokes are a bit more premeditated

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If they're good I do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yes - a lot. Mostly jokes i tell myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Sometimes yes, if I can't help it.

And sorry you are having the flu, that is dreadful, but enjoy the delirium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

My jokes tend to be terrible, so not really, but what will really get me laughing is the reaction of other people to how terrible they are.

Probably shouldn't laugh at that to be fair, what with causing suffering and all that, but as suffering goes it could be far worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah it's a bit of a foible but I won't crack a joke unless it's already got me laughing internally.