Poll of the Day > Rate my anti joke. Also bad jokes topic.

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"Im so boring that if you looked up boring in the dictionary, youd probably find the definition of boring"

Its because normally that type of joke will end with "youd find a picture of me" but since im boring i just said what youd actually find in the dictionary.

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Muffinz0rz posted...

so does that mean it gave you such a hearty chuckle that you went to the topic list to share my joke? or was it so bad that you're just like "i have no words"

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Bump

I've heard a similar "anti-joke" that goes something like "Did you know, if you were to stack all of the giraffes in the world on top of each other... (beat) ...they would all die?"

Perhaps the core tenet of humor is subversion, saying what someone wouldn't expect you to say. So these aren't really "anti-jokes" since as you point out in your example they expect a joke response and in mine they expect some revelations of how tall the giraffe tower would be. Maybe this type of joke should be called a "subversion subversion" but I'm sure someone's thought of a better name by now.

A true anti-joke, taking the word anti literally (the meaning of which is actually closer to 'against' rather than 'opposite') would be something akin to being needlessly serious in what should be a humorous situation or place.

Anyways, a joke, anti or otherwise, I give your example a 2/5. It is very obviously supposed to be a joke, but saying you are boring during the joke adds a layer of conflict that would make you come off as, perhaps trying too hard, or being self deprecating, both of which are more annoying than funny.

If you could say it with a completely straight face and tone, I might bump it up to a 3, since most would expect a corny chuckle from you after telling it, and the lack of that would probably be found funnier than the joke itself.
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https://youtu.be/QcI-2sTCvDY?t=51
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A man walks into a bar. As he's ordering a beer, he happens to glance down towards the other end of the bar and see a man with a big orange head. As the bartender brings his beer, the man asks him, "What's with the guy with the big orange head?"

The bartender chuckles. "Yeah," he says, "That's a helluva story, alright. Why don't you go buy him a drink, and maybe he'll tell you about it."

So the man walks over to the guy with the orange head, introduces himself, and offers to buy him a beer. The guy with the orange head says, "Let me guess. You want to hear about the head?"

The first guy says, "Well, yeah. If you don't mind."

The man with the orange head says, "Alright. Lord knows I've run it over in my mind a million times, anyway. So, it's like this: One day, I was walking along a beach, when I stubbed my toe on something. I looked down, and there, sticking out of the sand, was an antique lamp. So I picked it up and brushed away some of the sand, when a big cloud of blue smoke erupted from it. When the smoke cleared, a genie was standing there. And this genie said to me, 'Thank you for freeing me from my 5,000-year confinement. For doing this, I will grant you two wishes.'

"So, I think, wow, okay. And I do what many people would. For my first wish, I wish to be fantastically wealthy. So the genie snaps his fingers, and suddenly I'm covered in jewels. Hundreds of necklaces, three rings per finger, a crown on my head, and a chest full of gold next to me besides all that."

At this point in the story, the first man is in amazement. He just can't believe what he's hearing. Eager to hear the rest, he says, "So what was your second wish?"

The man with the orange head slowly takes a sip of his beer. He puts it down, and says, "You know. This may be where I went wrong... I wished for a big orange head."

My favorite joke ever.
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