35. Not all jokes are funny The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

    • Mental Health

Have you ever been told:


“Learn to take a joke."
"Why are you so serious?"
"Lighten up."

In this episode, I explain which jokes I find offensive and how sensitive people think it's more important to not hurt people than to be funny.

Related posts on my blog: Some jokes aren't funny

The mean jokes/pranks mentioned in this episode:


Article about Daniel Tosh's rape joke
The Saturday Night Live ISIS skit
The "dropping baby from the balcony" prank
The student driver prank

Podcast music attribution: Bust This Bust That (Professor Kliq) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Have you ever been told:


“Learn to take a joke."
"Why are you so serious?"
"Lighten up."

In this episode, I explain which jokes I find offensive and how sensitive people think it's more important to not hurt people than to be funny.

Related posts on my blog: Some jokes aren't funny

The mean jokes/pranks mentioned in this episode:


Article about Daniel Tosh's rape joke
The Saturday Night Live ISIS skit
The "dropping baby from the balcony" prank
The student driver prank

Podcast music attribution: Bust This Bust That (Professor Kliq) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0