Can anyone tell jokes successfully?

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I'm pretty good at telling jokes and making them up too - or providing humorous observations. The most important aspects are to keep the punchline or punch-word right until the very end of the joke. There should be nothing said after the punchline. You must also endeavour to keep a straight face and never ever laugh at your own jokes.

I'm good at telling jokes to make other people laugh, but I don't find them very funny myself. From experience I know what jokes make people amused but I still don't "get it".

Robin Williams is apparently confirmed to have Aspergers.

Who knew? /shrug

Not really.

Yes. And sometimes no.

The big issue for me is that as I approach the funny part or if I have succeeded in being funny by accident (somehow), I get very anxious and I freeze up. I literally stop talk and start engaging in weird head and body movements (me trying to force the words out) and it all fails right there. As a result of unpleasant experiencs in the past, I fear coming off as funny because this immediately causes me to become anxious and then its like a freight train derailment.

It all started (I think/presume) due to unpleasant experiences with social exchanges way in the distant past. Its all much better these days; I can talk on telephones and address people in public situations (although I would call myself mechanical in delivery). From the age of about 27 to 35 years, I managed to overcome the telephone and public speaking issues, but the joke and humour thing is a problem to this day.



More recently, I have been thinking that I am trying too hard (my whole life) to be normal and that aint happening anytime in this particular reincarnation. Seems like I best just be me, and let the goof ups be funny, but then just continue in my standard aspie way rather than trying to build on the funnies in a neurotypical fashion. I mean, I am kidding myself if I think I can pretend to be NT. Seems like most of you are funny because of your aspie traits , not despite them.

I liked the vid syzygyish, but I am not sure how it relates to what I said. I am sure it does but not sure how. If you could please explain.

If I were to take a shot at it I would be thinking that it shows what life is like for aspies in termd of how they interact with others? Hmmm, na, maybe best if you just tell me what this means.

It took me many years to get to where I could get people to laugh at a joke. I'm 58 now and I think it is only in the last 5 to 10 years that I've gotten fairly decent at it.

Jokes are very important to me. When talking to someone, I find it very difficult to do small talk, but I can tell them a joke or two. One or two jokes from me and maybe one or two from them and I count that as a successful encounter.

I must admit, though, that I have seen people get up and leave the local Dairy Queen when I show up. I presume that they don't want to hear my jokes.

My most successful joke is pretty recent:

No.

Yes, I got that syzygyish but still lost on the humour aspect. Hey, is not you its me. Its probably a commentary on not being able to tell jokes or something; I am completely lost here, I'll just shut up now .... <wanders off into a wall> ....

I don't know how good I'd be with strangers, but I'm actually pretty good at making my family laugh.

People laugh when they listen to my anecdotes. I tell them in a funny way because laughing at yourself is good from time to time.

I can highly recommend this particular kind of humour:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpan

It works very well with the Autistic spectrum. I can make people laugh on a regular basis this way.

My favourite (delivered in deadpan, of course):

"Best technique to avoiding domestic violence: Live alone".