Lively has a tendency toward deadpan humor, often delivered with a laconic stare that can make it difficult to figure out whether she is joking or not. “When I say something funny, I don’t laugh,” she says, “so my friends are always like, ‘Hahahahaaaa!’ so people know. When I’m not with them, I always think, This person doesn’t know I’m funny; they just think I’m a jerk.”
Pro tip: If your friends have to say “hahahahaaaa” to let other people know you’re making a joke, maybe it’s not funny? Like this rather mean joke about a not-nice restaurant.
She stares at me with a look that says, Really? It came highly recommended, I say. “By whom,” she asks, “someone who hates us?” It takes a second for me to get that she’s kidding (I think). A waiter approaches us to ask if we’d like to start with something to drink. “Can I have the French onion soup to drink?” says Lively. “I’m sorry?” says the waiter. “See what happens?” Lively says to me. “You have to be my laugh track.”
God, I thought people grew out of this insufferable behavior in high school. Also, people like this know who to take jabs at. I am betting she does not direct this type of 'humor' toward some in her circle...
Tbf there are a lot of people out there who have extremely dry/witty humor (especially on UK shows) and you always know if they are joking. If people aren't getting her jokes... she's just not funny.
I will say that my dad is also extremely dry and people will believe his outlandish statements but it's never been taken for as rude or hurtful.
Yep, I have a somewhat dry sense of humour and people don’t always get that I’m joking, so sometimes they take what I say at face value and think that I’m being serious, but I don’t think it’s exactly normal to be regularly coming across as downright rude in your attempts to be funny?
This person doesn’t know I’m funny; they just think I’m a jerk.
She’s really telling on herself there. If she’s making snarky little comments all the time, and is fully aware that those comments mean that she can come across as a jerk to people who don’t know her well, then she probably *is* just a jerk who only thinks that she’s funny
Yeah I don’t think it’s that her delivery is deadpan/dry that’s the issue. I think it’s that what she’s saying is just mean and not funny, and she doesn’t understand that because she thinks being mean about other people IS funny
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Pro tip: If your friends have to say “hahahahaaaa” to let other people know you’re making a joke, maybe it’s not funny? Like this rather mean joke about a not-nice restaurant.
She stares at me with a look that says, Really? It came highly recommended, I say. “By whom,” she asks, “someone who hates us?” It takes a second for me to get that she’s kidding (I think). A waiter approaches us to ask if we’d like to start with something to drink. “Can I have the French onion soup to drink?” says Lively. “I’m sorry?” says the waiter. “See what happens?” Lively says to me. “You have to be my laugh track.”
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I will say that my dad is also extremely dry and people will believe his outlandish statements but it's never been taken for as rude or hurtful.
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This person doesn’t know I’m funny; they just think I’m a jerk.
She’s really telling on herself there. If she’s making snarky little comments all the time, and is fully aware that those comments mean that she can come across as a jerk to people who don’t know her well, then she probably *is* just a jerk who only thinks that she’s funny
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The French onion soup 'joke' is like something the girl on TikTok satirizing the 'manic pixie dream girls' from 2000s indie romantic dramas would say.
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Okay this one was funny though, I'll give her this one little joke.
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girl, if everyone thinks you're a jerk when you're trying to be funny, you're just a jerk
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