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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''Remember how I found you there,
''Alone in your electric chair?
''I told you dirty jokes until you smiled
''You were lonely for a man
''I said "Take me as I am,
''{{'}}Cause you might enjoy some madness for a while."''
|'''Billy Joel''', "You May Be Right"}}
{{quote|''You know I'm hilarious. And I'm not going to quit until I [[When She Smiles|get you to smile]].''|'''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Beast Boy]]''', referring to [[Kuudere|Raven]]}}
He's the joker of the group. She's the [[Emotionless Girl]] or perhaps the [[Tsundere]], maybe both. He makes it his mission in life to make her let out one of the most powerful emotional responses. It's a matter of personal pride. If he can break through her shell, he can brag about it for years.
Said girl's friends will wonder why she puts up with it. Don't expect his jokes to actually be funny. The comedy really comes from her reaction, or [[The Comically Serious|lack thereof]].
This is often played as romantic interest. After all, guys like girls that laugh at their jokes. And, although she doesn't laugh, she does at least listen. If it's meant to become a romantic relationship, [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|don't expect them to resolve it anytime soon]].
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{{examples}}
* Ms. Joke from ''[[My Hero Academia]]'' makes multiple attempts to get her acquaintance/friend [[Gender Inverted Trope|Mr]]. Aizawa to laugh. She also sometimes asks him to get married, which he brushes off as a joke (he may or may not be right).
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Kyou no Go no Ni]] / Today In Class 5-2'' had this too.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' In the manga, Shinji tries to see if Rei can laugh by doing something funny - [[Crowning Moment of Funny|in this case, shoving two fingers up Touji's nose, causing him to freak out]]. This makes all the other girls laugh, but not Rei, who merely turns away with the same blank expression after seeing what all the noise was about.
** The anime doesn't have a single instance of Rei laughing. Not even the [[High School AU]] in the final episode goes past grinning.
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'''Platinum''': "No I didn't. Don't be a pest." }}
** It's more like he's trying to force her to admit she has her unlady-like moments whenever she does something.
* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' A [[Gender
* ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' did a story like this, where this group of guys followed Vanilla around, trying to make her laugh. Apparently she finally did, but her laughter wasn't [[Cop Out|shown or heard]] in the actual anime, it was just [[Take Our Word for It|implied]] that she finally did.
* ''[[Stellvia of the Universe]]'' Joey wins Akira's heart via this method.
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Tank Girl]]'' has a [[Les Yay]] example. Tank Girl and Jet Girl are in prison. Jet Girl has been very serious in Tank Girl's company up to now.
{{quote|'''Jet Girl:''' You don't understand. The better you behave, the more they leave you alone. And the more they leave you alone, the better off you are.
'''Tank Girl:''' Well, that's a bore! There's nothin' to be scared of. You just gotta think about it like the first time you got laid. You just gotta go: "Daddy, are you sure this is right?"
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== Fan
* The ''[[Firefly]]'' [[Fanfic]] ''[http://moodfic.livejournal.com/69709.html Simply Perfectest]'' suggests this happened between Wash and Zoe before they were [[Happily Married]]:
{{quote|''If he can't make her laugh, how will she know he can make her happy?''}}
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== Live
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' has an interesting take on this: (male) Neelix tries to make the (male) [[The Stoic|Vulcan]], Tuvok, laugh. Becomes a [[Reverse Funny Aneurysm]] when a transporter accident makes the two of them [[Ho Yay|into one]] in a later episode. I think I need [[Brain Bleach]] for even thinking that.
* ''[[Zoey 101]]'' One episode has Michael determined to get Quinn to laugh at one of his jokes. The only problem is, she doesn't find his jokes funny at all. In the end, she ends up laughing at a pun he makes just to shut him up.
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== Visual Novels ==
* ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' [[Gender
* ''[[Kanon]]'' [[Deadpan Snarker|Yuichi]] often does this to [[Hot Chick with a Sword|Mai]], claiming that [[Emotionless Girl|getting any kind of reaction from her at all is like winning a medal]].
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[School Bites]]'' got Imp, a [[Looks Like Orlok|Nosferatu]] Prince, who tried to act as a (perverted) clown around the girls, but they only seen him as mildly annoying. He eventually found out that all he needs to become more popular is to use his cooking talents. The family still [[The Unfavourite|sees him as a disgrace]] for [https://web.archive.org/web/20150306042028/http://schoolbites.net/d/20140407.html not acting deadly serious], but this way he got an [[Genki Girl|equally hyperactive]] girlfriend and status above "pest" with other students.
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* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' does this with Beast Boy and Raven. It turns out in the [[Prequel]] episode "Go!" that he got her to laugh during their first meeting, and he's been trying to replicate that ever since. He's succeeded three times: said prequel episode, an encounter with her "happy side" during a [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]] episode, and when he had a cold and lost control of his powers every time he sneezed. Notably, her happy side told Beast Boy that she always finds his jokes funny; her mildly irritated, [[Deadpan Snarker]] reactions to his jokes may be more about maintaining her emotional reserve than being genuinely annoyed.
* In ''[[Kids Next Door]]'', it's all but stated that [[Pungeon Master|Hoagie/Numbuh 2]] does all his puns to make [[Only Sane Man|Abby/Numbuh 5]] laugh (or [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|just happy]], at least). Unfortunately, [[Lame Pun|he isn't very good at it]], making her annoyed instead. There are times he manages to make her laugh, though.
== Real Life ==
* Ancient China - One of the last emperors of Zhou had a concubine who didn't like to smile. He discovered, quite by accident, that [[Crying Wolf]] by sending fake [[Epic Hail
* In 1907, a New York theater offered a "performance" by Sober Sue, a woman who allegedly never laughed. A cash prize was offered to anyone who could get her to do so; many of the city's best comedians made the attempt, but in vain. It's known that this was set up by her manager as a way to trick comedians into performing for free, and strongly suspected that Sue's facial muscles were paralyzed in a way that ''guaranteed'' she couldn't laugh or smile.
* In the 1970s and 80s, the [[Princeton Triangle Club]]'s Freshman Week "Best of Triangle" performance included one or two segments where a cast member would simply walk in front of the curtain from one side of the stage to the other, absolutely stone-faced, while [[Audience Participation|the entire audience tried to make them laugh.]]
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