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I'm not funny

Oftentimes I try to write funny things on reddit, and it just never works out. I sometimes read things that I wrote the day before and they're not even funny to me, much less other people. I'm very self conscious about it now. I may have to stop making jokes entirely. Sometimes I think that I should just start leaving serious and completely honest comments, and those might be funnier than comments that I leave in jest.

How can I improve my sense of humor so that I'm as funny as everyone else on reddit? Or at least, as funny as the average redditor?

Posted Apr 9, 2010, 3:04 AM UTC

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ssnseawolf•

TRY ALL CAPS.

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ssnseawolf•

Upvoted for hilarity.

See how easy it is? Reddit eats it up.

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Moz•

THAT'S NOT BIG ENOUGH.

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[deleted]•

Redditors love Dane Cook, so try to quote him as much as possible.

If this doesn't work, another thing Reddit loves is meta-humour. Create a novelty account called IAmNotFunny and then continue posting your lame-ass jokes. The karma will pour in.

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Wait...I have seen the second suggestion work before...

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LamarBurton•

Here's a little known fact, your "funny" isn't determined by your wit, personality, or life experiences. It is proportional to the concentration of midichlorians in your blood. To be funny all you need to do is find a funny person and perform a blood transfusion.

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computersyentologist•

I was highly skeptical of this advice until I read "midichlorians."

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computersyentologist•

Just harvest all the funniest things people say at Digg and lay them around Reddit like Easter Eggs.

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phlunkie•

I hear they taste funny

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nrj•

Apparently OP's condition isn't very rare.

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EvanConoverPPPPPPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKKKKK•

Reddit has no sense of humor. Remember: this is a place of pseudo-intellectuals and people who think they're better than others. So really, you are already funny, it's just that nobody's smart enough to get your jokes. Remember that and live by that.

So you could think that or you could tell a "2 men walk into a bar joke" even if it has nothing to do with the post, I dunno.

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GenerationGreg•

Just pull a Carlos Mencia and steal and repost funny stuff other redditors post

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Velk•

Steal Carlos Mencia's jokes and lay them around Reddit like Easter eggs.

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miss_j_bean•

Try falling down more often, that's pretty funny. Also, drink more liquor, then everything you do and say really will be funnier (and you won't care if it's not).

My personal favorite: adopt one of these phrases, "it wasn't for you, it was for me, and I laughed" or the shorter "well, at least one of us laughed"

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thehalfwit[W]•

If you want to be perceived as being funny, you should threaten people.

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ExtremeSquared•

Being unfunny has never stopped me from acting like a jerk on the internet.

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startchangego•

Start by copying and pasting comments from every youtube.com submission from r/funny/ .

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zzybert•

Quote Monty Python as often as possible. Everyone on the internet loves a good Monty Python quote. Be sure to get the quotes slightly wrong though, or you may be perceived as unoriginal.

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A-punkSo many Jollyranchers lost in the wind...•

Punch yourself in the testices everytime you say something. It's universally funny.

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dental-plan•

Here comes the secret formula for Reddit comment success:

Something something something bacon something something something narwhal something something something something boobs something.

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jankyalias•

Why don't you cry about it?

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PLDeans•

from now on only post Dane Cook quotes, people will think your hilarious.

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turkeypantsfloppy baloney tits•

Target the Jews. Works every time.

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laserman64•

Worry a lot about everything.

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