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PaperclipPerfector  7mo ago (text post)   2624 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 15, 2023

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What's the stupidest joke you shouldn't find funny but always do?

For me, it's the "made you flinch!". It's funny to do and even more amusing to see done in third person. It's even sometimes funny when done to you.

The offer handshake then adjust hair is a good second contender. But there's more of an art to it. It works best when you prank some guy, then get him a bit heated, offer to reconcile with a handshake only to hit him with a last-second juke.

I feel like if I could just do the whole fake lunge and then "ha made you flinch!" as an adult and then just laugh it off, life would be a lot less dull.

I have a long-time running joke with my wife where I say something along the line of "she seems a bit grumpy today" seemingly referring to our daughter, then I wait for my wife to agree to follow it up with " and <daughter's name> also, I guess" (If people don't get the joke in this written form, the point is that I actually was talking about my wife in the first sentence, so I made her agree to being grumpy by being deliberatly obtuse). My wife never can decide between being furious and amused herself, and I just never grow tired of it either because both are extremely in-tune with each other (if one is grumpy, so is the other; if one is tired, so is the other, etc.) so it just fits so well all the time.

My favourite dumb joke is deliberately shitty accents or mimicry. The more confident the set up the better.

<Word ending in -er>?! I barely know her!

I have a great knock-knock joke. You’ve got to start.

Whose there?

Lol you lunatic, that's not what he meant! He meant you have to ask 'You've got to start who?'

Have friends over for dinner, sit everyone down around the table to eat, tell everyone we need to say grace first (being secular people, they look around confused), ask everyone to hold hands, then say "grace!"

(Said without any pauses)

What's the hardest part about telling a joke timing.

Or with an extremely long pause. Best version of this is to freeze your face and let the pause hang until the person starts thinks your having a stroke or something then hit ‘em with it.

That or just kind of walk away and start doing something else then say the punchline at a distance.

Really stupid, really funny.

I'm going to do this one to my girlfriend right now

Due to lack of response, I’m going to assume that she rightfully killed you.

The episode of A bit of Fry and Laurie with Paul Eddington in it does this bit really well. I'd link it but you have to watch the whole episode (series 2 ep 5 if you're interested.)

Not sure if this counts but I find the Colonel Toad meme format amusing for no discernible reason.

Farts into momentary conversation lulls.

Someone doing the no traction foot slide on ice (and not falling).

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