A Serious Talk About Jokes — The Bad Jokes
On jokes, parrots, and the pressure to laugh in chorus.
4 min readFeb 2, 2022
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In my sixth grade, mom came back from a school meeting.
She said my literature teacher worried about me not laughing during his classes. Everyone else was laughing at his jokes, but me. I was too serious. 😑 Surely, there must have been something wrong with me.
