GSOH ?

Yes. Often.
One lady I know just doesn’t get that sort of thing, and innuendo also just goes right over her head !

… and isn’t it so disappointing when that happens?! You think you’ve been so witty and it falls as flat as a pancake ?? Even worse when you have to try and explain it! ?

I know the feeling.

It's the po-face that gets me. Thick as a plank.

One of our neighbours is like that and I feel really silly if I have to explain or backtrack. She obviously thinks it's me ......it's not - it's her.

My DM never ‘got’ jokes. She used to say that she understood the joke, but couldn’t understand why it was funny. I found that really sad, especially if my DF and I were in hysterics.

DH is permanently like that! His jokes are hilarious to him - I just don't get them. You would think that after 46 years together one of us would get it? But no, I still can't understand his silly things and he will insist on making those jokes. I do have a sense of humour just not like his!

My hyper-sensitive mother, often, though can’t remember specifics.
She just didn’t do irony or tongue-in-cheek jokey, and took everything personally.
I once had to warn a Christmas guest who fancied himself as a joker, not to take the pee out of her, however gently or mildly, but of course he was too full of what a hilarious party animal he was, to take that advice.

Result, one mother launched into a prolonged huff in the middle of Christmas dinner!

Yes its so much worse when you have to explain the joke Squiffy

I once made a very jokey comment at a meeting and ended up having to give one person a written apology. Everyone else at that meeting had laughed. It got worse as the offended person was upset that I'd had to write to him and he then apologised to me.
I was much less relaxed at meetings after that.

Due to bitter experience, I now have to pick my audience before cracking a joke.

I twice had what I thought were well constructed jokes fall flat at political events. Maybe they were too subtle! Anyway, I concluded that my fellow party members just had no sense of humour.

I used to play tennis with a lady like this. Several of us were teachers and I made a sarky remark about something saying typical of male teachers. She ,non teacher,gave me a lecture about how she didn't like that type of remark etc and didn't get the joke at all.

Oh so relieved it’s not just me with a quirky sense of humour.

I have another friend who never quite gets it either. My dil who is Asian but has lived in London for 20 years, often has amusing anecdotes about her job.On one occasion the girls at work passed round biscuits but didn't offer her the plate. When she asked why the answer was'oh, they're only from Asda.., we didn't think you would want one'. This was funny because of her expensive tastes but when I told my friend she didn't get it and advised me to tactfully explain to dil that British people might not warm to her if she was standoffish and to help her fit in.?

Yes, all the time. Some folk take everything literally, or are very thin skinned. . Also, emails and texts are a complete minefield in that respect.

Nice to see you back MawB. Been busy planning your Christmas party?

I was once told that I have a different sense of humour to everyone else. Yes everyone else. Not a few people. Not some people. But everyone in the entire world.

DiscoGran

Nice to see you back MawB. Been busy planning your Christmas party?

As I shall probably be on my own, I’m not sure what you mean.

I hate it when I'm working up to a punch line and someone interrupts and messes it up for me. Timing, people, please!

Witzend I once had to warn a Christmas guest who fancied himself as a joker, not to take the pee out of her

Does this involve a catheter?

I'm so glad that I was blessed with a very humerous family who could always see the funny side whatever the situation.

A good sense of humour means a lot and my dear friend was exactly the same as myself which is why we got on so well through our 50 odd years of friendship.
Can't be doing with poker faces, I don't usually get on with them either.

Bit like Margot in A Good Life, she didn't get the jokes.