The abundant literature of the Overman on the subject of the classification of human beings was missing one category: the sympathetic.
That’s why over the past few months I’ve asked anyone who’s made a joke that made me laugh to answer a questionnaire specifically designed to identify the problems, sorrows, but also joys of funny people.
These are the most frequent answers I received. From Ricky Gervais to my friends’ Whatsapp group, from Robin Williams interviewed the day before he hanged himself to Gianni Morandi, here is an uncomfortable truth: the life of nice people is much less nice than their jokes.
Here’s a list of things only nice people will understand
#1. You get invited to parties as a clown
#2. Often a joke is just a way of saying what if said seriously would get you punched in the teeth
#3. People expect you to make a funny joke even at your father’s funeral
#4. Those who get offended by a joke but swore they were being self-deprecating
#5. You’ve discovered that acting like the nice guy in the group is a good way to avoid getting laid.
#6. The day you steal a joke you will buy a joke book and use it to smash your forehead.
#7. When no one understands your joke, you feel a bit like your child has been hit by a truck.
#8. When you try to make a drunk joke you usually end up destroying one or more friendships.
#9. Few things unleash your hormones more than a person who makes clever jokes.
#10. There’s a difference that few seem to understand between an idiot and a funny guy.
#11. The pleasure of fooling someone without them realizing it is balanced by the fact that in the end you feel terribly alone
#12. Heart-shaped hopes form in your head when a hottie says she’s looking for a man who makes her laugh
#13. Then you realize it was a joke
#14. What you appreciate most about the Catholic religion is the nonsense humor of passages such as the conception of Jesus and the guys who come back from the afterlife.
#15. Even if on the outside you laugh with those who listen to you, on the inside you laugh at those who listen to you
#16. “You’re crazy!” No, I’m not crazy, you’re the one who’s banal
#17. Serious people are too ridiculous to understand that laughing is a serious thing
#18. “You could go to Colorado !” And you could go fuck yourself
