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Will you laugh at unfunny jokes?

Will you laugh at unfunny jokes?

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If someone says something unfunny I won't fake laugh though my wife will. I'll acknowledge their attempt in some way but won't laugh if I didn't think it was funny.

I've heard some people think this is rude. What about you all? Will you laugh at an unfunny joke just to go along with it or give your honest reaction?

Some jokes are just in poor taste or mean. I'm not referring to those where it's clearly okay if you don't laugh, or if you just don't get the joke. I'm referring to laughing just to be polite.

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My ex husband will make a point of ringing me to tell me he has a good joke for me. I listen to the joke and say
“Ah, that’s a good one”, which is enough to encourage him to keep doing it.

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@Drewnogal said
My ex husband will make a point of ringing me to tell me he has a good joke for me. I listen to the joke and say
“Ah, that’s a good one”, which is enough to encourage him to keep doing it.
So you don’t actually laugh so much as you’re being…hmm not sure what.🤔

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I do it.

I wouldn't call it actual laughing like when I'm genuinely laughing and I wouldn't call it laughing like how an actor would do it but ya I'm the nice type and go along.

Usually a Haa Haaaa type of thing.

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I usually slap the person if the joke sucks.

I don't have many friends.

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@Great-Big-Stees said
So you don’t actually laugh so much as you’re being…hmm not sure what.🤔
A bit bored with pretending to laugh. Aren’t jokes more of a man thing? They’re certainly better at telling them than women.

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@Drewnogal said
A bit bored with pretending to laugh. Aren’t jokes more of a man thing? They’re certainly better at telling them than women.
Men laugh so hard at their own jokes, we assume they are funny.

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@Torunn said
Men laugh so hard at their own jokes, we assume they are funny.
Now that was funny 😂

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@Drewnogal said
A bit bored with pretending to laugh. Aren’t jokes more of a man thing? They’re certainly better at telling them than women.
I had a colleague (female) several years ago who was the best joke teller I have ever met. She would deploy different voices and physically act the joke out.

She missed her calling.

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@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
I had a colleague (female) several years ago who was the best joke teller I have ever met. She would deploy different voices and physically act the joke out.

She missed her calling.
I worked with someone like that, she was hilarious! Very observant and perceptive, she could pick up anyone’s mannerisms and how they spoke. I knew she must have done impressions of me too though being her line manager she always denied it 🙂
I once heard her referring to someone as a knob in front of someone very high up in our organisation …. and getting away with it. I always told her she was wasted in our service. She could have succeeded as a stand up. Everyone craved her company.

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I had a friend who could tell jokes for hours…OK, maybe not hours but a long time. He would tell one joke and in that joke would be a word or phrase that reminded him of another joke and he would just keep going. He was an interesting fellow who used to take random university courses for years. Eventually he managed to cobble together enough to get a BA. He (Dan “The Swine” Sweet) was closing in on 85 when he graduated.👍 He sadly passed a few years ago.😢

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@Great-Big-Stees said
I had a friend who could tell jokes for hours…OK, maybe not hours but a long time. He would tell one joke and in that joke would be a word or phrase that reminded him of another joke and he would just keep going. He was an interesting fellow who used to take random university courses for years. Eventually he managed to cobble together enough to get a BA. He (Dan “The Swine” Sweet) was closing in on 85 when he graduated.👍 He sadly passed a few years ago.😢
A gifted guy.

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@Drewnogal said
A gifted guy.
He was indeed and a dear friend who I miss, in spite of his “Swineness”. We worked together at Gulf Oil when I was transferred to Toronto from Montreal in 1970. We soon became friends and he’s say, “Hey Steve, ya wanna go out for “a” beer after work?” Well “a” beer never happened. After I left Gulf we kept in touch for many years. We would get together every few years for “a” beer and wings and reminisce. It’s been a while, I think about 5-6 years, since his death but every once in a while someone will tell a joke and it triggers those memories. Hey thanks for reminding me of those times.👍😁

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@Torunn said
Men laugh so hard at their own jokes, we assume they are funny.
Now that was a good one.

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@vivify said
If someone says something unfunny I won't fake laugh though my wife will. I'll acknowledge their attempt in some way but won't laugh if I didn't think it was funny.

I've heard some people think this is rude. What about you all? Will you laugh at an unfunny joke just to go along with it or give your honest reaction?

Some jokes are just in poor taste or mean. I'm not ...[text shortened]... if you don't laugh, or if you just don't get the joke. I'm referring to laughing just to be polite.
If I laugh on unfunny jokes is a direct function of the framing.

Some people can teel a joke in such a funny way, that the joke itself doesn't need to be funny.

And sometimes the atmosphere allows for laughter on something that is not really funny when told in an austere atmosphere.