Some people take more time than others to wrap their heads around jokes. Innuendos and clever puns usually carry a hidden meaning, which might seem confusing at first. In fact, research shows that nearly 70% of people laugh at jokes they don’t understand. An abundance of such instances can be found online, as the internet is a treasure trove of jokes, witty comments, and other frivolous material to make people laugh.
Here at Bored Panda, we dove into the depths of the That's the Joke subreddit to bring some examples of people unintentionally missing the gag line. And they might be funnier than the actual jests. Make yourself some popcorn and start scrolling through.
P.S. If you want to continue the involuntary abb workout, make sure to check out these jokes that are so bad they’re actually great.
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It Is At Least A Lvl 1 Meme
you just want someone to say "*prophecy", don't you? :P You're welcome.
Load More Replies...Murphy's law states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong, but have you heard of Cole's law? It's an appetiser.
Ha! Kohl's Law is that they will always bug you to open a charge account.
Load More Replies...Didn't know that was called Cunningham's Law. Not yet 9am and I've already learned something new!
Research suggests that humor and insight comprehension stimulate the same brain areas. This implies that both require a bit of effort to be fathomed. It comes as no surprise, since humor is a complex form of communication.
It not only relies on linguistic means but involves other important components, such as perception and context, among others. Listening to grown-up jokes during family get-togethers didn’t seem so funny as a child, did it? While now you’re cracking one-liners about politics together with uncle Tom. This is due to a better understanding you get that comes with experience and knowledge in certain fields.
Pretty Self Explanatory
I had one guy ask me for thigh pics, I sent him photos of chicken thighs. He wasn't impressed.
Maybe you need to buy higher quality chicken thighs? :)
Load More Replies...That’s Crazy
Well, maybe not *everyone*.......... I thought "Psychic friend Fredbear" lol
Load More Replies...Don't call or text but you are absolutely okay and free from risk when you take several photos while driving
How do you know that the driver was actually taking the photos? How do you know it wasn't the passenger?
Load More Replies...Lol, this song is actually playing on my pandora right now!!
Load More Replies...Seriously? Someone else thought it was like ghostbusters? Wow! How is this a fail??? /sarcasm
Your relatives will call a psychic to contact you after your traffic incident.
Research shows that when stated in a humorous way, the message is retained better. In addition to that, according to the same research, humor comprehension in the brain correlates to considering other people’s psychological state.
Also known as mentalization, this ability is crucial in order to use humor as a form of communication or entertainment. Only when you are able to understand others can you begin to understand what might be funny to them.
Who Gonna Tell Him
Aha! The downvote fairies have struck again! Can one of the cowardly downvote fairies explain what is wrong with 6 little cubes of ‘mist’ emojis and what is offensive? Otherwise, please eff off.
Load More Replies...I was blown into the wall from the force of wind created by that joke flying over Blake’s head
What joke?? I don't understand why everyone's laughing at him because the punchline didn't load or something /j
Load More Replies...I once heard a man on tv call it "camelflage." He was serious.
*rest
When I had a flip phone and tried to text the word "here," and accidentally hit the t instead of the r, autocorrect would type "heterosexual." I can't tell you the number of times I failed to proofread and ended up sending texts like: "When will you be heterosexual" instead of "When will you be here?"
A detailed analysis of humor and mentalization shows that a joke is best within a certain frame of intentionality. Different levels of intentionality comprise the process of mentalization and account for how well comedy will be understood by the audience. The person telling the joke has to reach a level high enough to be funny, but low enough to be intelligible. That emphasizes another factor when it comes to understanding jokes—knowing your audience.
That Was The Point
"I wanna live with commas people, want to do whatever commas people do"
Load More Replies...So are capital letters when it comes to helping your uncle jack off a horse!
I can't tell. She might of been playing along, or she might be that stupid...
Load More Replies...The Comment My Cousin Made To A Post My Sister Shared On Facebook
All it did was make the wrapping paper wet and wrinkly, and the kids still found them really easily...
Load More Replies...I found that a little confusing too, even though I knew it meant attic. I have never heard it called a "roof void" before.
Load More Replies...Yes! They won’t expect to find the presents there!!
Load More Replies...Sick Joke Bro
Research on audience characteristics states that the listener’s tendency to laugh is a great factor when it comes to delivering jokes. People tend to have a rather fixed sense of humor, which helps if you know them well. That is why adjusting your content accordingly might save you from a moment of crickets instead of laughter.
Nevertheless, knowing your audience is not always possible, especially if the jokes are told to the vast public online. Luckily, in instances like that, the receivers can find solace in the helping hand of the internet. The survey about people that laugh without understanding jokes also stated that more than half of the respondents (56%) have had to look up the meaning of a joke to comprehend it.
Found This On A Different Subreddit. Sorry To The Hardcore Redditers For Reposting
I’m 13.7 billion years old, still not a ghost
Load More Replies...Excuse me - I am a vampire. We can be really old too you know. No one ever thinks of us. 😢
"What? A traffic jam on the highway? But there isn't a single car in front of me..." same energy
This is the perfect time to remind you all how careful you have to be with your sartorial choices. If you were killed right now, whatever you are currently wearing will be your ghost-clothes for maybe 274 years or more. So, choose wisely and get rid of your cargo-shorts: no one will take you seriously when haunting some place in one of those.
Amy Schumer Isn’t Funny
I don't find her funny, of all the jokes iv heard from her, only One made me laugh.
Indeed it was! "When I told everyone I wanted to be a comedian, they laughed at me. Well they're not laughing now". Much funnier when he said it.
Load More Replies...Haha Yes Tumblr Moment
a hyenas laugh is actually a sign of pain. So I've been thinking, maybe im a hyena?? Not a cat??
That isn’t true. I assume you’re referring to spotted hyenas? The hyena vocalization we refer to as a “laugh” is either a sign of alarm/fear or a sign of aggression, depending on its pitch and volume. It does not indicate pain. Additionally, it is not at all congruent with a human laugh, so it should not be compared as such.
Load More Replies...I'm not clear on the "implies" part. Hyenas took down more fighter aircraft and bombers than everything else combined.
How is this someone missing the joke? They’re literally saying that they get the joke.
It’s a Piper Tomahawk. There’s nothing particularly wrong with it, the cabin just looks high because its missing the front :) For context it’s in a zoo in Belgium, it crashed in Mid Wales about 25 years ago, I guess it was a write off. The full reg is G-BTJJ. If you Google that you’ll see a few zoomed out picture for context. Pretty cool!
Load More Replies...Thanks For Clearing That Up
He didn’t bring it into existence, he explained a phenomenon. It kinda existed for millenia
After reading that, the rest of this thread is gonna be a downer
Load More Replies...some of these are so obvious they are like a pass/fail test for people with zero sense of humor. Or zero sense of something anyway.
That’s A Corn Dog!
American Sushi. Only needs to be smothered in miracle whip and deep fried.
You are eating it with two sticks instead of one. And it makes it harder.
How Does This Have 110 Likes
First Of All, The Repost, Then This Comment
The whole tradition of taking your husband's last name is because you became his property. I recently remarried at the age of 50, not changing my name and all my ID this is my name for the last 50 years... why would I go to all that hassle, it means your bank accounts, driver's license, SIN card, passport...
I just want to keep mine because is so good - also I don't want to get married or have a relationship lol
A friend of mine took his wife's last name. Mainly because his was really really bad, but anyway. Edit: spelling error
Heh - You Said Boobies
I'm not an expert but I think those are used nose cones from the Apollo program.
Load More Replies...When I was cleaning out my mom's estate I found one of those "bullet bras" from I think the 50s.
We called them Wagon Train bras back then... 'head 'em up, move 'em out.' After the tag line in very popular TV western, Wagon Train.
Load More Replies...No no, that’s just Detective Oliva Benson under cover 🤔
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Downvote fairy, pls explain why is this offensive, hate or spam. F**k off downvote fairies, because a certain hacker hath already tracked the downvotes and knew which of you are downvote fairies :)
Load More Replies...I heard the "foreign guy" on Family guy when I read this one for some reason. "Haaa, it's funny because it's true"
They Should Make A Joke About That
And in a surprising twist, two people and counting were affected by the whoosh in the comments, more updates as the story develops!
Gave my friends a good giggle when I just told them that even with the title of this article this post and the comments got me good! 🙈😂
Load More Replies...I didn’t think you could put metal in the microwave? Or has the joke just gone over my head too 🙈😂
cool, I didn't know that trick. I'm going to go try it. I'll post back in a few minutes with a report.
What’s sad here is I’ve never thought of doing that. I just microwave the butter for a few seconds. Or rip my toast. I’m worse than the joke non-getter!!!
Yes you should definitely try microwaving your knife. Makes all the difference.
Load More Replies...S**t Quality Btw
unpopular opinion in the teenager community but i think dream is morally reprehensible
Although I do enjoy to watch dreams speedruns every once in awhile a lot of teenagers my age actually despise him. Then again, there a some people who claim to be “dreamsexual” (sexually attracted to Dream) which honestly disgusts me beyond measure.
Load More Replies...Guy Ruined It
There’s nothing wrong with cats (lowercase C.) There’s EVERYTHING wrong with Cats (uppercase C.) And this is coming from someone who has seen the Andrew Lloyd Webber original in theaters many times. That, I can endure. The movie adaptation? No.
Load More Replies...Room Temperature Iq On This One
Wow that’s one hell of a guess for never having seen the show! What are the odds??
(pronounce a country that starts with y and ends with n and you will have my reply.)
Load More Replies...And It Was The Top Comment Too
Imma be honest, it took me way longer than it should’ve to understand what the post meant😳. Edit to clarify: I meant it took me to long to figure out what “rub one off” meant. It’s a running joke among my friends that I am the most innocent man alive. For example, I had to have Hickeys explained to me last month (I’m 18)
I also was looking for in the photo, before actually understood what he was talking about. Oooh dirty mind.
Load More Replies...English is not my first language so I’m legitimately asking: isn’t the expression „rubbed one OUT“?
English is my first language and I also thought that
Load More Replies...To "rub one off" means to masturbate, while it's the number "1" that was actually rubbed off.
Load More Replies...They are leasing the 1st floor. How will people on the other floors get in and out?
Not only has 1 rubbed off in the elevator ... There is also a visual representation 🌋😳🤣
No Way... I Mean Let's Ignore Cloths
There are days when I feel like the internet is 99% The Office memes/references/quotes and 99% Harry Potter memes/references/quotes. The last 1% is cats.
I think baby showers, baby gender reveals are just more commercialisation of a private matter
🙂
I pause multiplayer games to feed my yelling cats and dog and turtles. Then I get tons of angry screaming that’s ALMOST as bad as the cats’ from the people who ditched me because I wasn’t moving and run ahead, only to discover I was the only one who had enough weapons to beat that thing up front. I’m a jerk in multiplayers like that.
Smallpox
I always laugh when I see their "arguments" end with "Makes you think". Like, I WISH IT WOULD!!!
Load More Replies...It makes me think that everyone who was alive in the 1700s is dead. I'm mean, duh!
My husband has this silly joke he tells cashiers when they announce change like "eighteen thirty-four", he'll repeat it, saying, "That was a bad year for pickles". Naturally, they usually ask why, and he says, "Well, after all, everyone who ate pickles in 1834 is now dead."
C’mon Man I Made It So Obvious
Who starts at the bottom of the page? Are you some kind of anarchist?
Load More Replies...Gardener, Removed
I mean, his username is "bishslap".... the rest seems to be on par.
Okay but is it just me or is the lady in the background now flipping off the subject of the photo and would-be plant killer?
Oof He Got You There
That One Person Who Ruins The Joke
unfortunately it's frowned upon in some circles
Load More Replies...I grew up on those. There was always a package in the fridge. I like them. It was the 80s, what can I say? Things were chaos then. XD
Load More Replies...I Dont Know What To Put Here
The Caption... Yeah No S**t
“Can you send me some pics that you took outside of your modeling job for shutterstock?”
Met her yesterday and she is "My Baby" in your phone...wish we could get an update on this one!
I Mean.... Yeah It Is
Huh… it is the same price, but it is NOT the same price in my mental brain cell circuit! No one is convincing me otherwise! :D
Are you one of those consumers marketers are targeting when they price something at $19.99 instead of $20?
Load More Replies...Fun fact: separate shipping is often cheaper than shipping included, because you usually only pay shipping once per order, but can add several items, while the hidden cost of shipping included in the price of one single item may be a little cheaper than the one time shipping, but if you order several items it usually adds up to more than the one time shipping cost and becomes a hidden price increase.
Amazon does this or used to. I used to google amazon instead of using the app just to compare and there were times where the actual price is shown plus shipping since I’m not logged in to my Amazon on google. Then i’d go to the app and it’s showing a much higher price with free prime shipping which amounts to the same thing. I should cancel my prime membership haha
My son and I legitimately just had this conversation today,! How coincidental. LOL
You've spent $19.99 for both, but if you need to return it, you will get back $19.99 for the free shipping order and $14.99 for the other.
And it works every time! I would pay 500 extra to avoid paying 99 shipping! (I am talking in INR and not USD just in case you are wondering)
The $14.99 + $5 shipping is cheaper when you factor in sales tax. The sales tax where I live is 10%. So, I'd save 50 cents by going with that one.
My state spotted this some years ago and changed the definitions so it now charges tax on total cost including shipping and handling.
Load More Replies...oooh boy. oh my god. These people.....woooosh went your airplane. sorry bro. next time.
You'd Think Someone In A Meme Subreddit Would Catch On
I guess the username is “yellowpenis” so BP covered it with a visual representation. Surprisingly, you missed the “bigredpecker” above.
Load More Replies...Thank You For Your Contribution
I though this when I was looking at the answer . . . the 'me irl' answer XD
Load More Replies...Seems like sequels are released after 100 years. Like 1920s Spanish flu got sequel in 2020. And Great Depression started in 1929, so......
Yeah... we all regret the tweets we did in early 2000s and it includes those facebook wall posts too.
I Sure Did!!!!
Pick Me Ups for whoever besides me tried to stare through the coupon like they had x-ray vision instead of reading the adjacent box :D
When An Entire Sub Whooshes As One
Have a strong feeling that I purchased my house from them....it is full of stuff like this.
Why does that comment have more upvotes than the original post? How far have we strayed from all that is good?
I Just- I Dont Understand
Didn’t Really Need Any Explanation, But Apparently 161 Others Felt It Did
I wanna die quietly in my sleep like my uncle, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his bus.
Or is currently going to the bathroom
Load More Replies...I want to die like my Grandpa, asleep and at peace, not like his passengers.
I read that research shows, about 75% drivers believe, they are better drivers than average.
I want to die as my grandfather did, peacefully asleep, not screaming and crying like my passengers.
I’m learning to drive right now, and I now have more respect for race car drivers. 🤣
Found On Snapchat
The person between the groom and old grandpa looks like a bit of a clown
Borderline Self-Aware
🎶 You could cut ties to all the lies that you've been living in 🎶
Load More Replies...Sorry For Sh** Cropping
Really? So interesting. Now, tell us about the place you were born, your first pet, and your mother's maiden name!
Load More Replies...It's totally possible that I have 1984 favorite books if I'll finally find the time to count them... 🤔🤷
"Their"
Hold up. Is there a difference? I feel like there is…
I dont see why you were downvotedd-
Load More Replies...Yep, You Got It
Circus freak? Really, have a little respect. Circus freaks don't deserve to be insulted like this.
Load More Replies...if i see that f**king cheetle-coated demented crackhead one more time im going to gently pour bleach into my eyeballs
How many people look at his face and instantly want to slap it. I'm going to guess at least 75 million.
Sweet-potato Hitler is nourished by attention; stop giving in people and maybe the bullet fairy will bless his pea-sized brain.
i love the rare insults in this comment section so much omg
Load More Replies...On A Coronavirus Puns Video
Thanks For The Explanation
Come To Brazil
Beethoven's gone, but his music lives on, And Mozart don't go shopping no more. You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again, And Elgar doesn't answer the door. Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and laugh, Whilst composing a long symphony, But one hundred and fifty years later, There's very little of them left to see. They're decomposing composers. There's nothing much anyone can do. You can still hear Beethoven, But Beethoven cannot hear you.
I was going to write something similar. You know Beethoven is not composing anymore ... he's decomposing!
Load More Replies...The name van Beethoven is very common in Belgium. I bet one of them can indeed play an instrument and give a concert. I'm not so sure how good it would be but Im pretty sure we'll find at least a child with a flute 🤣
No dude that would be a lot crueler ( i think thats how its spelled ) that take the real Bheetoven... Saint Bernards are cold weather dogs, don't take them to Brazil...
Load More Replies...That Is In Fact The Joke, Thanks U/Jesstgefangirl_
"You know what Lincoln would say if he was alive today?" "What?" "LET ME OUT!"
Well Done
I should have held out. I did a face reveal for a Whopper and a deep sense of regret.
I'm still trying to get someone to text me a cheesesteak...
Load More Replies...Thank God He Pointed That Out!
Nice Job
Toph Be Like: Akdbdbwkaheeid
For those who do not know the reference: these are characters from the cartoon Avatar: the Last Airbender. Toph is blind.
This post would've been much better without people explaining the jokes. *grins*
Speaking of lame jokes.... I keep telling people I'm immortal - just like in my last life. Nobody has laughed yet. I can't tell if it's just not funny or if nobody gets it.
Dark humor is like food. Not everybody gets it.
Load More Replies...My boyfriend, dear thing, tends to be literal and often explains jokes back to me. He will understand the joke and laugh but then tell me why it's funny, whether I made the joke or someone else did. lol He's just a little nerdy but I love him :-p
sounds like ASD. get him tested. It is useful to know. speaking from experience.
Load More Replies...BP shortened the original post of 51 to 50! Gosh, thanks BP for saving me!
This is like the time on Twitter I said that Brad Pitt's best movie was definitely Top Gun in a tongue in cheek way. A lot of people played along but some people adamantly needed to let me know it was NOT Brad Pitt but in fact Tom Cruise. This was a couple of years ago before Maverick came out.
It's interesting how my brain keeps telling me these people are stupid despite it not getting most of the jokes right away.
You can almost see the gears painfully and squeakingly turning in someone's mind until the penny drops in slow motion.
This post would've been much better without people explaining the jokes. *grins*
Speaking of lame jokes.... I keep telling people I'm immortal - just like in my last life. Nobody has laughed yet. I can't tell if it's just not funny or if nobody gets it.
Dark humor is like food. Not everybody gets it.
Load More Replies...My boyfriend, dear thing, tends to be literal and often explains jokes back to me. He will understand the joke and laugh but then tell me why it's funny, whether I made the joke or someone else did. lol He's just a little nerdy but I love him :-p
sounds like ASD. get him tested. It is useful to know. speaking from experience.
Load More Replies...BP shortened the original post of 51 to 50! Gosh, thanks BP for saving me!
This is like the time on Twitter I said that Brad Pitt's best movie was definitely Top Gun in a tongue in cheek way. A lot of people played along but some people adamantly needed to let me know it was NOT Brad Pitt but in fact Tom Cruise. This was a couple of years ago before Maverick came out.
It's interesting how my brain keeps telling me these people are stupid despite it not getting most of the jokes right away.
You can almost see the gears painfully and squeakingly turning in someone's mind until the penny drops in slow motion.
