Telling jokes that no one understands?

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My wife was telling me a story about some weird comment that Mike Huckabee made at an NRA talk. Apparently, there was a loud noise, and he made some weird comment about Obama falling off a chair, and everyone was baffled as to what he was talking about.

Anyway, when she said it, I thought that something similar happens to me a lot. Sometihng unexpected will happen, and my brain says, "Insert joke here," but I don't know how to insert the joke, so I say something stupid, and I tihnk it's funny, but no one else does.

Anyone else have that problem?

That's why I've more or less given up trying to be funny.

I used to tell jokes all the time that I thought were funny and others didn't get.
Sometimes it was because they didn't know the background material they'd need to get it, sometimes the humor lay in something I had observed or remembered that they hadn't, and sometimes I just plain didn't make sense (except in my own fuzzy logic, which is why I made me laugh).

Nowadays I don't really tell/make jokes unless I know my companions; and even then, it's usually funniest for me.

I have this problem, it is rare that anyone laughs at my jokes. But I know they're funny because I only have one family member that laughs at any of my jokes while everyone else doesn't.

All of the jokes I come up with are pretty esoteric because they're usually elaborate jokes related to my imaginary world that no one else would understand but me.

So whenever I start randomly laughing and someone asks me what I'm laughing at, I just tell them it was nothing.

Last night I was on a chat with some other women that do crafting and one of them said....

"I ate so much junk food last night"
and I replyed...."Hey that's my last name"<---true
then I said "you ate me, why lady I barely know you"

Pretty embarassing, (thankfully they all ignored it)...but that's why I dont like to talk to people. Whenever I'm nervious I say things that strike me as funny but are either inappropriate or just not funny to them.

I've long since reached the point where I don't care whether anyone thinks something is funny or not. About 70% of my jokes go over people's heads but people who know me really well generally know that if they think on it for a while, they'll get the joke.

Sometimes I get people coming back days later saying - oh... now I understand.

Funnily enough with a suspected aspie friend, he gets my jokes about 90% of the time.

I like to make a joke I know no one well understand on purpose sometimes, it makes feel privvy to knowledge they don't have that would help them understand it.

Simply put.... I don't laugh at my own "jokes".... and I don't tend even to "joke" so much as aim to express myself in as witty a way as possible sometimes.


I mean I used to... sure.... but I've come to realise that if I'm joking around, and I don't laugh myself at it... that if nobody gets it they won't even bat an eyelid, so nothing is lost. Actually, more often than not people accuse me of comedy when I'm just generally being myself.... and while they're laughing I'll just give them a "...... What?" look.


I do think it helps that I'm British and surrounded by other British people though. We do tend to have a more refined sense of humour in general than Yanks, which makes it more Asperger-Friendly.

I have this problem all the time! Especially yesterday at my moms graduation. Every time I told a joke, no one got it, and looked at me as if I was some sort of freak. In order to get my humor, you actually have to think, and most people do not want to think in order to get a joke, but I am not into the mindless humor that requires no thought at all.

I gave up trying in my teens. Now that I'm in my fifties, people think I'm funny when I'm just describing an event.

Lelia,

Exactly!
Sometimes, I say something perfectly natural, or even just give a look, and my wife will burst into hysteria. Then when I think I'm being funny, she looks at me like I'm a jerk.

Ditto.

Mind you, people do laugh at what I say. But it's how I say it, instead of what I say. It's the timing and intonation that really makes a joke a joke, or more often than not, makes a serious statement a joke. I've been told by one person that I have a very sarcastic tone of voice (partly true,) so I guess I can make people laugh without even being funny.

I'm not complaining.