Do you deconstruct jokes when told to you?

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...making technical points and rebuttals?

Basically destroying whatever humor's intended?

You must know my lovely wife.

[LakeArenal]

1. Only if they aren't funny...

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3. my favorite ones elicit groans

...more than chuckles.

[FakeNoose]

2. Maybe you need to be a better joke-teller

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4. maybe folks need a better sense of humor

...someone I once read said, 'if you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.'

[FakeNoose]

5. Does your wife tell you jokes? Maybe she needs some coaching

I laugh at jokes all the time and I try to tell them as best I can. I've posted them here on DU several times.
Here's a good one I just posted the other day:



Women have a different way of looking at things, and I can say this because I'm a woman. My male friends and associates don't always laugh at the things that I think are funny. So I guess it works both ways.

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6. her jokes are long stories

...complete with histories of participants and qualifications of circumstances, etc.

She gets me chuckling, throughout.

Puns and plays on words or pop phrases are becoming increasingly popular. That really gets me chortling.

Yes, I said, chortling, like chortling along with NPR in my car - one of my secret faves.

[Diamond_Dog]

7. I often have to explain jokes to my spouse

He and I have different senses of humor i guess.

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8. I get that

...right in the middle of explaining I realize I've been led away from the punch.

Likely the aim.

[Marcuse]

9. I briefly deconstruct Republican jokes to search for the humor.

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10. republican jokes

...enough said.

[KT2000]

11. just got accused of that

Brother-in-law sends me jokes that have underlying RW assumptions that are not true. I was accused of not having a sense of humor when I replied with corrections to those underlying assumptions. They want us to normalize their lies.

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12. not that

...geez.