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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 2 weeks ago

Well, someone has to!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks 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 1 week ago (1 children)

Who else is clever enough to grasp all the layers?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

If I can't laugh with myself who can I laugh with?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

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

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

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

To make one's wife groan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly.

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Well someone's gotta

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks 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] 6 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah. I'm funny as shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 1 week ago

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

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

More than my girlfriend does

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

Yeah when it's a good one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks 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 1 week ago

Obviously. Everyone in my head says I'm hilarious

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

sometimes but not always.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

If they're good I do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week 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 2 weeks ago

Yes - a lot. Mostly jokes i tell myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Harry potter

Cringe