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Why do people laugh at jokes?

I like to believe that I've got a pretty good sense of humour but I just don't find jokes funny. It's not that I don't get the logic in them, in fact I find some of them really clever to the point that I wish I'd have thought them up but they aren't really funny where I'd burst out laughing and want to tell them to everyone I meet. But then when something does make me laugh its usually something that isn't funny to anyone else. Oh well, never mind.

Not everybody laughs at jokes. When somebody says ''why did the chicken cross the road.......?'' I don't see many people bursting out in laughter and rolling on the floor. People just give a smile and give a small laugh to say they get it, and may laugh if it is really funny.

As for jokes when people socialise, I laugh at those. It means humour. Even if I don't think it's funny, I still laugh to acknowledge the other person that I've understood them, because a laugh reaction is what he or she expected.

I love laughing, and I love jokes, whether they're the type people do as humour in social interaction, or the ha-ha jokes. My uncle comes round and tells a load of really rude jokes, and I love it when he tells them.

I am not sure why I laugh at jokes. If I find them funny, I laugh. I don't always laugh at jokes of course because I don't always get it and I don't always pick up on it.

Everyone just has different things that they find funny. The trick is to learn what these kinds of humor are and to try and appreciate them. I've noticed that people on the spectrum tend to have a different kind of humor altogether...which is a good thing because it makes them more interesting, not to mention funnier

Finding something funny is like your brain having a hiccup when it finds an error when something you say or do deviates from what is expected to happen. One of my favourite jokes is by Stewart Francis and goes:
'I have mixed race parents, my father prefers the 100 meters, and my mother is Pakistani' .

Well for me it depends on the type of joke.......I usually find humour that has some truth to it, or dark humour the most hilarious. I really like the comedian George Carlin, don't know if any of you have heard of him........he's dead now but he had some pretty funny jokes

I don't get most jokes. My mom, who I swear would have been diagnosed with AS if she were a kid today is always saying she dosen't get humor. But then I don't get the jokes she finds funny. I find it funny if someone repeats themselves over and over. I had severe echolialia as a little kid and wonder if this is why. But most jokes or humor, I don't get.

I often don't get jokes and my husband has to explain them to me and I simply shrug and say I still don't get it. I can understand that it's a joke and that it's supposed to be funny but I don't find it funny. Same with I often tell jokes that are so obscure they are not funny wheras in my mind they are hilarious but I have so many factors going on in my head, small little snippets of info that maybe I should tell but I have a knack of assuming the listener is on the same wave length and would just get it.

I tend to prefer puns and dark humour and my jokes revolve around that. Take for example family guy, I love that show because there are so many jokes, innuendo's etc that some people find offensive wheras I find them hilarious and they are the exact sort of jokes / funny comments I'd make myself.

A major problem I have is that I can't pretend to find something funny, I can't laugh to be polite so if someone tells a joke I don't find funny I will just stare at them, most of the time trying to figure out if that was it or if there's more, trying to figure out what part was funny etc.

I like some jokes. But when people are talking and someone says something that's supposed to be funny I just stare blankly while everyone else is laughing.

very little on TV or in the lions' share of movies, strikes me as funny in any way. but i laugh like a mentally defective fool at stuff in mad magazine, such as "spy vs. spy." the movies "it's a mad mad mad mad world" and "smokey and the bandit" had the same effect on me.

I don't laugh at jokes as much as I laugh at random "nonfunny" things.

Well sometimes jokes arent funny but its more funny to laugh at something thats really odd or out of place. Like a really fat person riding a motor scooter, or someone's grafeeti on a sign thats made it look really smart or funny etc, For example the sign for our woolworths is up really high and sum one has gone and added on the end Woolworth's is gay. this seams to make all the residence of Darwin laugh.

I love laughing, but it takes a certain something that makes me laugh, what that is I have no clue. My sense of humor can be really dark or it can be totally "normal" although when I'm playing videogames like Left 4 Dead 2 and we are getting demolished and all I hear are screams of terror and crying coming over my headset from my teammates, I can't help but break out with laughter. Though some jokes totally escape me and I have to have someone explain it to me -_- I also laugh at incredibly immature things too... (fart jokes, etc.) Also everybody here should check out the stand up comedian Louis C.K. SO HILARIOUS (beware, adult humour)

yes, I suppose I have quite a dark sense of humour too. It's like when I tell everyone that my late dad was a fairground worker (which he was), and he got crushed on the cups and saucers ride. I suppose it's tragic in a way but it's also darkly funny.