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If a character in any given show is constantly cracking wise and making wry observations, no matter how clever and funny they are, they never elicit so much as a smirk from any of the other characters. While in real life genuinely funny and charming people are social darlings, in TV land they're more seen as annoying losers.

 

 

Of course, it's all for the best. Constantly chuckling characters would drive viewers insane (a [[Laugh Track|constantly chuckling audience]] does nothing of the sort, [[Sarcasm Mode|of course]]), especially if they're [[Humor Dissonance|laughing at a joke the viewer doesn't find funny.]]

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

 

== Commercials ==

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Sports Night]]'' subverts this quite nicely with most characters, especially Danny. Whenever anyone makes a joke, or just an amusing comment, the other characters actually laugh!

'''John''': D'argo, I mock all of us. }}

* Like [[Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic]], this is more likely to be averted in [[Mockumentary]]/FauxDocumentary shows. [[The Office|Ricky Gervais]] interviewed [[Curb Your Enthusiasm|Larry David]], and this trope was one of the things they talked about.

** In early episodes, the other friends were shown chuckling at Chandler's jokes once in a while. In fact, you can see the others laugh less and less at Chandler as the series goes on, and get more and more irritated with his quips.

*** If you've ever known someone who jokes to the degree that Chandler does, [[Truth in Television|you'll understand this fully.]] It's not just the jokes themselves, it's the [[Hurricane of Puns|constant nature of them.]]

** They do occasionally avert this trope, but only when it's a plot point (as in the episode where Foreman {{spoiler|contracted an infection which made him giddy}}).

* This is noticably averted in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', where this trope is a pet peeve of the writers. Anytime a character on the show is intentionally telling a joke, only the actor playing the character telling the joke is told the joke beforehand. Thus, the other characters listening to the joke will laugh, or at least smirk, at the joke since [[Enforced Method Acting|this is the first time the other actors have heard it.]]

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

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