[EricH]

Originally Posted by who716

I could go all day...... a joke is a joke doesn't matter if someone else doesn't find it funny. its a joke if you find it funny.

Your audience brought a pile of rotten tomatoes for you.


Here's the thing about jokes and audience: If the joke isn't appropriate for the audience it's told to, they won't find it funny, and then you won't be telling that joke there anymore. (Might not be telling any other jokes there, either.) Even if you find a joke uproariously funny, your audience might find it to be a mortal insult. I'm serious here; I can think of a couple of joke/audience combinations that could result in my getting seriously hurt.


Although, I must say, there is one joke where you don't have to worry about the audience's reaction. Too bad nobody knows what The World's Funniest Joke is, something about anybody seeing more than one word getting very seriously hurt.