If nobody is laughing.... IS IT STILL A JOKE?!

Everyone has a different sense of humour, so of course it would still be a joke - to the person telling it any way. The person telling the joke also needs to understand that the people around them might not have the same sense of humour before getting upset about them not getting it. It is great to have a sense of humour, but even greater to have the freedom to choose what we find humorous and what we don't. Me, I have a reasonably good sense of humour, and there isn't much I don't get offended by, though, I can sometimes get lost in a joke, but that's only because my brain cells are still trying to catch up on the last one - that's what having kids can do to you.

I don't think you should have to apologize for your sense of humor. what is funny to me may not be funny to the next person and that's ok. i know that i am personally a very funny person and sometimes people just don't get it! which is ok. i think we cross the line when we are being rude, fresh, or insulting. if you are not doing that, and if find something really funny and others don't get it, why do i have to say sorry! i am going to LMAO!

If nobody else is laughing then it is not a funny, if one or two is laughing then it would only be funny to the minority. I suppose I am fortune because I'm not really good at telling or remembering jokes, so being met with a wall of silence or disapproval is not something that has ever happened to me. What has happened to me though is that I have said something that I thought was not funny at all, only to have people who I am talking about falling about laughing. But as a Zen practitioner I suppose I do have a quirky idea of life :-) Derek

If I am the only one laughing then I have to assume no one else gets the joke. Then, yes, I should apologize and move on

my definition of a joke is: if i am laughing, it's a joke. sometimes it happens that nobody laughs about the jokes you make, but if YOU think it's funny why don't just tell the joke to other people. if you dont tell it, you will never know if the other think the joke is funny.

I think the "not laughing" part says it all. People should be sensitive. That's why we have a skin.:p

If nobody is laughing, I'd say it's real good odds that it isn't funny! But some people do socially inappropriate things and just don't 'get' that other people have a problem with that. Some things that are OK in one crowd are not OK in others. And then some people have disabilities such as autism where they really don't know how to judge what's appropriate!

Why will you keep on giving jokes that are no longer funny? Don't be offensive if people will tell to your face that you need to stop because you are no longer entertaining but already irritating. It is no longer a joke if no one is laughing and if the people around you were not able to get the meaning of your joke so better stop before they hurt your feelings.

I guess we are all different and therefore we all find different things funny. But it is important to be able to sense how others around you feel and I think that if I could tell that I was the only one laughing whilst telling a joke or a story then I would stop!

Been there done that! I don't think I would apologize, I would kiddingly say something about it not going over very well, or "that was a dud"! And make fun of myself, which will get a giggle from the other. But I agree, that the originator of the "joke" would be better off if they openly admitted to dropping a dud!

Well, if I am laughing, and I am someone, therefore someone is laughing, I guess that it is a joke.

Yes there are some jokes which will not make others to lough ,many friends said to me these kind of jokes ,and we use to call this is as " mokha joke" .one of my friend is very popular in telling these kind of jokes .One day this was happened to me , I said to my friends that i am going to tell you people one joke and started telling joke and after finish telling the joke no one loughed for the joke ,and one of my friend asked me to start the joke by knowing that i finished telling the joke.This made the whole crowd to lough at me .I hope you understand.

i'll apologize, cause maybe if nobody laugh maybe they find it too corny and useless and worse - offensive

just because some people don't find it funny doesn't make it not a joke.

Perhaps different people have different kinds of humor, sometimes I just can't get it when someone is telling a joke, I'll just apologize and say I don't understand. Even if I am the only one who is laughing, I will still continue to laugh if I think it's really funny. But, I am not good in telling jokes definitely, so I seldom tell.

I think if something like that would happen, people are not entertained with the joke. They might be wondering something out of the expectation of the person joking.

we called this kind of joke "cold joke". people can't fall into laugh until he has the same experience like the joke stated, because people can't understand such things also do can't laughter out . but if he/she know the deep meaning of it, there will be another secnic.

yes it is still joke ,but having less power to make people loughing ,u should be apologise or not is depend on situation if somebody badly hurt by u so u need to apologise thier otherwise its ok