What do you do when someone tells you a joke that isn't funny?

That has happened to me so many times. The least I will do is just say "Oh. Um. Thats funny" except if its a person I know then I will just say "That was not funny"

If I don't find a joke amusing, I just don't respond, or i tell the person that it was terrible. i can't stand it when people think they are funny when they really aren't. Even some so called professional stand up comedians can't make me laugh, like Jerry Seinfeld. I can't stand him for some reason!

I'm terrible at faking that I find something funny. Expecially if it is a joke with a bunch of swear words in it or something disgusting. What is even worse is when they can't take a hint and they keep telling more jokes that you will never find funny. Most of them offensive.

Hi Spookybutt, To be honest, most times if someone tells a really lame joke, it's still funny, but what's funny is that the person telling the joke THINKS it's funny, not the joke itself. But if someone tells a really puerile or completely off joke, or if you just don't like the person anyway, it can sometimes be hard to see the funny side of things. The easiest way around an awkward situation like that, is to just let off an enormous fart. It breaks the tension, sets the mood and gets all the kiddies giggling!

I hate it when someone tells me a joke that isn't funny. I have to ask them what the funny part is. sometimes it is just that I did not get the punch line but most usually it is not even funny at all. I will not laugh at those either. I cannot fake it. I just have that glare that you speak of, like that was about dumb, LOL, or made no sense or isn't even funny at all.

It is really hard to laugh when the joke is not funny. That is just like trying to laugh at a bad comic. I know what that is like. But then sometimes even if the joke is dry you still muster up a half of a smile. Just to keep the persons spirits up. It's hard but sometimes even the corny joke are nice too. Have a good one.

I honestly tell them it's not my type of humor, I would feel bad lying about it. There may be nothing wrong with the joke but sometimes you just can't see the humor of certain jokes. Best thing is to be honest in my opinion. You might spare the persons feelings for the time being but when they find out you fake your smiles it comes in a lot harder and hurts even more.

It really depends on who says it, if its somebody that I dont know or I'd have to respect him/her then i'll put a fake laugh out there.. what should I do? doh! But if its a good friend, then I would say "okey, I must say this was the worst joke you ever told me!" and then I would lough out loud with him/her! Or i'll put a other funny comeback line that would put up the mood so the unfunny jokes turns to an funny enviroment and thats the whole point of it, i guess,right?! :)

I just sit and think..."What's wrong with you people?" I see emails and discussions with tags and comments of "Just hilarious" and I'm thinking "What....?" I think I have a great sense of humour but I don't find adults being silly all that funny most of the time. If it's witty and clever, sure..I'll smile and nod but otherwise I have to wonder at folk.

I want to laugh, even if its a bad joke, but i can't make false laughter. So instead I just smile and do a little laugh kind of sound. It is easier to laught to bad jokes if I'm not alone if there is someone laughing.

I love lame jokes and cheesy puns...but sometimes my hubby who is the funniest guy in the world just starts to joke a little too much or takes it too far and so after I decide it's enough I just tell him that's enough and that I'm done with that one, lol. If it's somebody else and they're talking about something I don't think is funny I might just smile politely, if that's possible. Or I'll just groan and say "geez..."

I was much the same way when I was a child. If a joke was not funny, I would just look at them as if still waiting for the funny part to be delivered. As I grew older, I attempted to feign amusement when it came to jokes that weren't amusing, but more often than not, I felt very fake. So, now, depending on who is doing the telling, I will either not pretend or I will at least claim that I have heard it before or that the joke must have gone over my head because I just didn't get it. I would rather people think I was not quick enough to grasp the meaning of the joke than to be fake and pretend. I would like to think that certain people would rather be told that a joke is not funny so they don't continue to spread it around expecting it to be funny when it's not. These people are normally family and really close friends. All the rest get the excuses.

I generally just don't laugh if I don't think that the joke is funny. I don't mean to be offensive to anyone if that is the case, but I generally just don't, especially if the joke is somewhat unclean or adult orientated.

once someone was telling me and my niece the joke about pete and repeat. we had heard it so many times what else can you do but turn the joke around. in case you never heard it. pete and repeat were walking across the bridge. pete fell off. Q.who was left? A. repeat. so my niece and i kept saying repeat. the guy kept repeating the story. we thought at first he was playing along with us. but he kept repeating it and he started to sound fatigued. and my niece and i got the impression he wasn't going to stop. so we said sorry, we were kidding. we got the joke awhile back. he said, oh i thought you just weren't getting it. then we felt bad for him. it was a very awkward moment. anyone else we knew would catch on and then laugh with us. but he didn't get it at all. it was sad and we felt bad.

i honeslty think that making people laugh is a hard work. it's really hard that only few movies have really funny antics & punch lines. most of the poeple i know are fucosed on they bad mood or bad day, that they dont even know how to smile anymore. whinnies! so i really appreciate someone who made an effort to make people laugh or even smile. :D

When I was younger I was like you. I just looked at someone if they told me a joke that I didn't think was funny. It was usually one of my friends (one in particular) that just was not funny. It would make her mad and then I would laugh at that. Now I usually try to manage a chuckle so as not to hurt their feelings. I'm not real good at it either.

It depends who it is that's telling the joke. If its someone I like, I will try to laugh or at least say something funny myself. If its someone that I couldn't care less about or might even not like much, I would most likely not laugh and have that look on my face too.

I 'm trying my best not to laugh because of the joke but because his joke is so lame. I'm such a transparent person, what you see is what you get. But then sometimes, I just tell them " nice one.." with sarcasm on my face. lol

i used to laugh to humor the person, but i don't even do that anymore. if the joke is just horrible, i tell them to not share it with anyone ever again. i find that laughing at a joke that isn't funny is just as bad as lying to someone when they ask for your opinion. i try to be blunt and honest, because that's how i want people to respond to me.

Hey, if you don't think it's funny then why laugh? A lot of humor really isn't all the humorous. Some people just think they are being funny, when in reality they just want attention. Don't be something you're not.