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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.

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Most times I can tell if the laughter is fake or not, and I happened to be in situations when I can't contain myself to tell the story straigh without laughing my ass off. It depends.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

I laugh at my own jokes because I'm hilarious

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

If even I don't laugh at my own jokes, why would anyone else laugh at them? The worse the joke, the more I laugh

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Meh, matrix brainwashing. Be yourself.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My daughter is the only one laughing at her "jokes."

[–] Juliana@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago
[–] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Humor is difficult.

It's tough when it's actually a bad joke or they are telling it badly, but they find it funny.

If it's a genuinely funny situation / retelling, both of you laughing about the same thing and also about how the person in question is struggling to breathe because they have to laugh so much, that's funny.

But it really really really depends.

[–] Gieselbrecht@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Whoever says to not laugh about their own jokes has never seen el Risitas. RIP.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I hate when people laugh at my jokes, let alone someone laughs at their own. Laughter is such a horrible noise.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Laughter is also highly contagious, so you better watch out. There have been reports of entire office floors and classrooms succumbing to uncontrollable fits of giggles, causing productivity rates to plummet. In some cases, the laughter epidemic has spread across neighborhoods, turning typically stoic morning commutes into a cacophony of chuckles and snorts. Health authorities are advising to limit exposure to particularly humorous individuals and to steer clear of gatherings where a particularly irrisponsible individual stands on stage aiming to infect everyone in the audience with a severe case of laughter.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe for some but I’ve never laughed due to others laughing. I can’t recall the last time I laughed recently. I tend to avoid it because it’s such an uncomfortable feeling. Like you’ve got hiccups and coughing at the same time. It’s easy to avoid though because it’s not my reaction to things others laugh at.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds truly exceptional. Other people don’t consider it uncomfortable at all.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Have you considered making an AMA? There are so many questions already brewing.

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[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The first time I thought you were joking, now I am not sure anymore if you could be a really sad person instead.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Even if he is, don't judge people before you walk in their shoes.

Why would you intentionally post a hurtful comment to someone like this, and specially if it's a sad person?

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Because it’s difficult for others to imagine that people are not 100% like them. Difference is considered a threat and most people’s base instinct is to respond with something that can hurt the other person because the other persons existence is a challenge to their worldview.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A threat? How would that be? Not to mention that essentially nobody is like me, so others being different is the absolute norm, the opposite of hard to imagine.

I say that could be sad because not laughing is like nit eating tasty stuff. Not feeling nice things. A whole dimension of positive stuff simply missing. But specifically about the topic of feeling and lack of laughing is, more or less, sadness.

Let alone that you are actively against laughing of others, and that absolutely is sad to me.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

I don't know if it's most people, do you think so? From my own life, there has been almost only nice people in real life. Social media though is very different and people act like it's not a person on the other side of this screen.

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[–] Juliana@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

I don't see anything wrong laughing at your own jokes while you're cracking your audience because comedy is an expression off ur feelings 🤣

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