Do you laugh at your own jokes? It's socially inappropriate?

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This is news to me.



I don't tell jokes often (because I don't typically remember jokes). In rare instances, I do remember a joke. And, when I tell it, I laugh (sometimes uncontrollably). Because I find it so funny.



No.



I am not an expert on social appropriateness. LOL.

I have a wicked good sense of humour and my timing and delivery are superb (I think). Others seem to enjoy my humour.

I laugh at my own jokes. I don't care if it's acceptable or not. I do what I want. Not what I think is socially acceptable. I have cracked groups of people up in the past at times when someone has been talking about something serious, there's been a pause in the talking and I'll say something harmless but funny and it really eases the mood and everybody laughs. I'm good at that! Timing is everything! And discretion!

It depends. An annoying person who makes jokes all the time and who laughs at themself all the time is just irritating to be around. But if you're telling a joke that you genuinely find funny your laughter adds to the humor of the joke.

This joke isn't all that amusing, but it's a funny clip because Craig just looses it and laughs so much.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFTsKGuZY-M[/youtube]

It's technically knows as corpsing.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Corpsing

Dudley Moore is one of the more famous examples, though I don't find him funny.

I was once told that it's somehow ''weird'' to laugh at your own jokes, but then I've seen NTs do it a lot. Once I pointed that out to my NT cousins, thinking they would know that as they were teenagers at the time and according to teenagers everything's inappropriate. But when I said ''who laughs at their own jokes?'' they replied ''we do'' and carried on. It's not usually like me to point out things like that because I'm not usually judgemental of people at all, but I thought I'd try it that one time, since that was what I've been told before.

I don't really know what ''laughing at one's own jokes'' really means, to be quite frank. I don't know if it means jokes as in knock-knocks or why did the chicken cross the road? etc, or if it means jokes as in banter. When somebody says something funny, that person laughs as well as the others.

1) Do you laugh at your own jokes? Oh yes.

2)Have you ever been told that it's socially inappropriate to do so? Oh yes.

3) Do you think it is and if so then why? Hm, no, not really. I think it's just one of those things people tend to get stodgy about. I see no harm in sharing the joy you found in a piece of humor!