Lifes Windows

I'm writing about humour in a social sense, between people, in a pub etc. Jokes are mostly told by people who often don't have a real sense of humour, who can't be witty, cant make funny observations, who rely on someone else’s humour for theirs. A last resort to make people laugh, rather than being able to be self-deprecating and allowing the laughs to be on them. When jokes are told in a gathering, there are usually lots of them. Everyone has to get one or two in. You sit there, and 90% of the time, feign laughter. After sitting through the joke you feel compelled to laugh at the punch line, out of politeness. Jokes are the humour of expectation. They expect laughter, rather than earn it. Nowadays i just shake my head, 'Weak, that was really weak mate'

I don't tell jokes. But maybe no one thinks i'm funny.