The Rosie and Roula Show

148: Bad Jokes, Fake Laughs & Awkward Punchlines

• Roula Abou Haidar and Rosie Burrows

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Some jokes are so bad you can’t help but laugh… or cringe. In this episode of The Rosie and Roula Show, we dive into the world of unfunny jokes, fake laughter, and the strange things we all do to save face. From Rosie’s childhood knock-knock joke to Roula’s outrageously gross Dracula punchline, nothing is off-limits. We talk about why people laugh at jokes that aren’t funny, the social pressure to play along, and how humour can be both cringey and bonding at the same time.

Keywords: bad jokes, fake laugh, awkward humour, unfunny jokes, worst jokes ever, Rosie and Roula podcast, cringe comedy, gross jokes, knock knock jokes, embarrassing jokes.

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Rosie (00:00)
Roula, I have a question for you.

What do you do when someone tells a joke that's not funny? Like it's just not funny. It's just like I don't get it or it's not funny. Like huh? Do you laugh?

Roula (00:22)
Okay, okay, here's the thing. ⁓ my goodness. It's weird. Yeah, because this is probably where my people-pleasing kicks in.

Rosie (00:25)
You're uncomfortable!

Roula (00:48)
if someone is telling me a joke and I know they are telling me a joke, I try to laugh.

Rosie (00:54)
Victor? Why do we do that?

Roula (00:58)
Because it's so sad. Okay, someone needs to tell them it's not a funny joke. Okay, look, if it's not a hurtful joke or like disgusting joke, bad joke, I laugh, I laugh, I laugh. And when I do, I add a twist to it to make it funnier, not because I'm funny, but sometimes I have this quick thing in my head.

Rosie (01:00)
You

It's not funny.

Yeah, yeah.

time.

Okay, let

me do one, let me do one. I don't know if you'll find this funny. This was a joke as a kid I thought was hilarious and I would tell it to everybody. So Roula knock knock. You say who's there? Bear.

Roula (01:28)
about jokes.

Who's there?

Bear Who?

Rosie (01:45)
Bare Bum!

Roula (01:50)
It's took me some time

Rosie (01:54)
I thought you were faking it.

Roula (01:58)
It took me some time to understand what you're saying.

Rosie (02:03)
No, I thought you were going to be an example of not laughing, like that's not funny. ⁓ yeah.

Roula (02:09)
I mean,

can you imagine if you do this joke in reality, like, so you're living with your girlfriends and then you knock, knock, and then you, she opens the door and you're with your bare butt.

This don't get put to reality!

I do all the time practical jokes on my husband. Sometimes he's like, please stop. In the most unexpected times.

Rosie (02:30)
You know what, think I respond... ⁓ dear.

Oh my god, you'll have to share some that are appropriate to share. Maybe in another one. Yeah. What I was gonna say is I think I react in a couple of different ways because it depends who it is. If it's someone I don't know well, or a stranger, I'll probably just laugh. Like, my fake laughs aren't very convincing, but I'd probably do that. But if it's someone I know, I might, I'll probably laugh.

Roula (02:42)
Yes, yes.

Rosie (03:08)
and then say, that's really not funny. And then I'll laugh because it's not funny and I'm laughing. And then we all laugh and it's great and it's all right.

Roula (03:18)
I love, I like this one. This is a great twist to it. There are, I remember when we were little, there were so many jokes. If I tell them now, it's like, how did you even laugh? Okay. I have a joke that is so freaking weird. I never forgotten it. there are two jokes, two jokes. We told when we were little, I still remember them. They're so weird and naughty. My mind is blown.

Rosie (03:30)
You tell me.

Okay. ⁓ okay.

Roula (03:46)
Okay, the first one. And this is is Lebanese culture jokes. Okay, so people please understand the universe I'm coming from. So this there is this girl that came to her mom and said to her, mom, I went to the playground and I sat on the swing and it was so much fun. So her mom told her what, but how can you sit on the swing? You're wearing a dress. People will see your underwear. So the girl said, no worry, mama, I took it off.

Rosie (03:47)
you

so might not get it, okay. Okay, all right.

Terrible! my god! Wow!

Roula (04:25)
Sick, right? So sick.

I have another one and I'm not, I'm going to tell it because this is our podcast and I hope that people know us enough to know it's okay. There's another joke. Someone told it to me. I was probably a teenager and we were like cracking jokes left and right. And I'm nervous telling this joke.

Rosie (04:36)
Safe space.

Okay.

Roula (04:54)
I mean I have to tell it because it's like nothing nothing I've ever heard in my life

Rosie (04:56)
You do.

Okay.

Roula (05:03)
So, went to the bar. He sat at the bar and asked for a drink. The bartender asked him, what do you want? Dracula said, I want a cup of hot water.

Rosie (05:06)
Yeah.

Too late.

Roula (05:20)
The bartender said to Dracula, are you sure? Just had water? He told him yes. And he took from his pocket a ⁓ bloody tampon and put it in the water.

Rosie (05:33)
⁓ Gross! Ew! Your jokes are disgusting! That's actually disgusting!

Roula (05:41)
jokes these are the jokes

I heard when I was a teenager and they know like them they never left my mind

Rosie (05:47)
Ew! Ugh! Can you imagine? ⁓

that's feral! I can just, like, smell it. Yuck! I found your jokes more disgusting than funny. my god.

Roula (06:03)
Yeah,

well, Rosie, as a teenager, hearing these jokes, I never forgotten them. They were so freaking weird. Outrageous!

Rosie (06:08)
⁓

They're outrageous. They are weird. Who came

up with these jokes? That's twisted.

Roula (06:19)
Yes, I hope I remember a light joke to tell that will change the mood.

Rosie (06:20)
Wow.

I never remember jokes. ⁓

I don't really know. When someone goes, I'll tell me a joke, I don't really have a joke. I remember that one from childhood, but it's like not really a joke.

Roula (06:37)
Yes,

my sister-in-law, she's my mom, my mom and my sister-in-law, they both have so many jokes. My mom, all her jokes were very naughty, like more about marriage and couples and... ⁓ This is a joke that my mom told me. Okay?

Rosie (06:43)
huh.

Okay.

Okay.

Roula (06:59)
I don't even, it's weird, okay, my mom is so sweet. Okay, she passed away, so I love this memory of her. She said to me, so Roula and maybe not directly to me, it was an ascetic. There are two jokes. They're not told at the same time, but I'm gonna tell them now at same time. So the first one is that, do you know what's the difference between,

Rosie (07:02)
Another weird one.

Okay.

Okay, okay, okay.

Roula (07:27)
the bikinis of the 60s and the bikinis in the 80s because she told me this joke somewhere in the 80s. In the 60s you would lift up the bikini to see the girl's bum. In the 80s you move the girl's bum to see the bikini.

Rosie (07:34)
Okay.

That's accurate. ⁓ She's not wrong!

Roula (07:53)
Okay, she told me another one. The setting of this one is weird. So she said to me there were two couples in the church.

Rosie (07:59)
Okay.

Okay, where is this going?

Roula (08:07)
This is not

of it in the church, yeah. And so the couple is a man and a woman in front and behind them there's another man and a woman. I hope I remember it correctly. And the woman in the front, her dress is stuck in her underwear. So the man standing behind pulled the dress out. no, no, the woman, the woman pulled the dress out because it's embarrassing to walk with your dress.

Rosie (08:24)
Okay, okay.

Uh-huh.

Right.

Yeah.

Roula (08:36)
stuck in your underwear and then her husband went and put the dress back there so she was like why are you doing this she said yeah but maybe this is how it should be something like this but she's like mom first it's a shirt second what's the point of this joke and that's

Rosie (08:59)
Yeah, what is the point?

Roula (09:03)
That's something I didn't understand back then. again, she wasn't telling me that, telling the joke directly to me, it was in the setting. And the setting would be drinking coffee in the afternoon with the neighbor, neighbors ladies. Yeah, that's my naughty mom. ⁓ Okay, yeah.

Rosie (09:10)
Run, run.

rush.

She sounds like she had a wicked sense of humor. Yeah. I love that.

Roula (09:25)
⁓ yes, you did.

⁓

Rosie (09:32)
good, that's good. You know what, I think we will wrap this episode up

All right, all right, goodbye everyone.

Roula (09:37)
All right, let's wrap it up. Let's wrap it up.

Goodbye.