This troper's friend always kills my jokes by adding on to the joke in a way it wasn't originally intended,thus ruining the joke. Pretty soon I'm going to start calling her Buzz Killington.

If it's possible to kill a joke by explaining it, then my brother is CharlesStarkweather. Get it? By comparing my brother to one of the worst events of the 20th century, I'm saying that he sucks at comedy!!

This thread, beginning with post 102. [[http://mb.srb2.org/showthread.php?t=31225&page=6]]

So this one time, I was on the main page for DontExplainTheJoke, and added that an overly long gag was funny because the writer obviously knew that it was HypocriticalHumor thanks to the link, but extended the joke beyond being funny anyway as a way to Cross The Line Twice. Hopefully I-the-writer will have already been shot on-page, either with an arrow as part of the {{Discworld}} RunningGag or... *{{facepalm}}* Never mind... Gah! I can't stop! ...But anyway, This Troper doesn't usually explain jokes in real life. His favorite way of seeing someone get an IncrediblyLamePun is to wait for the inevitable pause, groan, and/or FacePalm, which often comes in the middle of a sentence, and allow a painfully fake-innocent SmugSnake smile to take over my face as they groan about it.

This Troper takes great pride in explaining jokes among friends, generally in the form of, "Ahahaha! It's funny because..." Surprisingly, the group has laughed at every explanation so far, though this may be because of the popularity of a Certain web show.

This troper's friend does this a lot. Usually she's funny in her own right, but on the occasions when someone makes a joke before she can, we get this:

FRIEND: (when we're watching ''Labyrinth'') ...Those hands are holding on ''awfully tight'', there.

FRIEND IN QUESTION: Haha, yeah, it's like a ''rape tunnel''!

FRIEND: ...Thanks, that was what I was getting at.

This troper has a friend who, whenever this troper makes a joke or does something remotely funny, invariably responds with, "Haha, I love the way you [thing this troper just did, seconds earlier]." It may as well be his catch phrase.

This troper likes to do a fake variant of these, where I say something funny, and then explain why it's funny in a manner that has nothing to do with anything, or is blatantly untrue. I.E.: "It's funny because of that time we all went to Poland and made them think Germany was invading again."

This troper also likes to explain really simple/obvious jokes, and then insinuate that the other party would have been too stupid to understand it otherwise.

This troper actually had a high school English teacher who became funnier by the way he explained his highly unfunny jokes.

Once, back in middle school, my friend was pretending to orgasm in our chem class. The rest of us all laughed at him until I shouted "you sound like you're orgasming". I got detention for explaining the joke.

Not sure if it s an example of this trope, but this troper found that a good way to explain a joke without killing it (in case someone doesn't get it) is to just drop small hints and let the listeners figure it out themselves. On the other hand, his father obviously doesn't know jack about humor. He has killed numerous jokes by explaining them and generally talking about the punchline. The troper isn't sure whether he's doing it on purpose or whether he's really that stupid, though he thinks it's the latter.

Ugh, seconded. My dad always needs to explain the jokes I make. Drives me nuts.

This troper knew someone that had a habit of doing this on the regular basis. Most people didn't comment on it, but she remembers saying "don't explain the joke, Surge" at least once.

This troper has a friend who adds "it's funny because it's true" to almost everything she finds funny. This moved beyond explaining the joke when she started doing it to humour that was blatantly false, such as jokes starring fire-breathing dragons.

There was a moment with this troper's roleplay that triggered this. The Infected had gotten inside the hotel the characters were staying in, and there was a particular Hunter that kept attacking one character over and over and was constantly escaping through the air ducts. After another character locked it in a closet, he remarked "I guess it had it's eye on you...". In ooc, I remarked "See, it's funny because Hunters have no eyes!" while linking back to this trope.

This troper has an ex whose father would go on such a long winded explanatory rant during the middle of his jokes that by the time he actually got around to making them, they were long dead. Then he explained why it was funny afterward.

This troper once used this trope as a flirting technique. I was having a flirtatious conversation with a guy (I am also a guy by the way) at a party, and at one point he mentioned that clearly I was Jewish. I said I was not, and added "I can prove it". I waited a second for the joke to sink in and upon getting no reaction, added in a slightly quieter voice "That was a reference to my penis." I don't think he got the Dr. Horrible reference, but on the upside I did get his number.

When I watch Smallville with my Dad, I usually do this sarcastically in regards to the large amount of Superman References, such as "See, that's funny because he'll become Superman one day.".

This troper had an experience in which an explanation of the joke was explained, in way, like so: (Whether or not it's actually funny is up to you, as there's no guarantee that we were sober at the time of the incident.)

Some Guy (Guy 1): [some remark about how his penis was so hard it could pierce through wood]

This Troper: "Your penis couldn't pierce through a piece of tissue when it's hard.

Another Guy (Guy 3): (pause) "That would mean it's smaller than a penny" (pause again) "when it's flat."

Guy 4: "Normally when you explain a joke it kills it, but this time it actually made it funnier!

This troper had a friend who tended to reply to jokes with (genuinely seriously) "That's funny". While not technically explaining the joke, it comes close...

This troper once made a piece of Madlibs crack fiction, which she then posted on DeviantArt. She got this response, prompting this troper to explain the joke. (The troper is TsuraraUzumaki, by the way.)

Haha, reminds me of the YouTube comments on Weird Al's "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" complaining that the song is so long.

My Teacher always tries to make some sorta joke. If no one laughs, he starts going "you know, because..."

I think pretty much everyone has had a teacher like that before. ...This troper knows.

This troper owns a shirt that reads "Trust me. I'm in college". This was all fine and dandy until the day I met a guy who thought the proper response was "Haha! More like, ''dis''trust me, I'm in college!"

This troper has a friend who manages to pull this off for humour. Maybe it's her ridiculous charisma, or the tone of voice she does it in. Hell, often her explanation is funnier than the actual joke.

This troper made a joke referring to playing as a guitarist named Eleven when doing the song 'Paralyzer' on Guitar Hero. His friend then blurts out "There must be a joke about Finger Eleven in there somewhere". This troper quoted the Family Guy line: "Thank you (name), that was the joke".

One of this Troper's favorite activites whilst watching America's Funniest Home Videos. Generally done in the format of, "Ha! It is funny because [recap whatever just happened in the video]!"

"And the tappercorn comes in the niiiiiiiiiight" There is so much background information behind this one that if you don't already know at least 3/4 of it before I start explaining it, you will be bored to sleep before I get around to the punch line. But trust me. It is hilarious.

Recently, this troper was watching ''ForrestGump'' with her family. Throughout the first twenty minutes or so, my mom would not rest until she explained to me ''every. Single. Joke!'' I was starting to get really annoyed with it, and my cries of, "Mom, I get it!" were doing nothing to help. When we got to the part where Forrest teaches Elvis his most famous dance move, she started to tell me, "See, honey, it's funny because..." My mouth was full of pizza at the time, so I cut her off by sticking my hand in her face and going, "Mmph! Mmph! *Swallow* Mom! ''I already got the joke''!" Mom replied (over my dad's roaring laughter) that I "was not showing enough emotion." I was very indignant. (Of course, if it hadn't been for TvTropes, I would not have gotten the joke in the first place.)

Memorable exchange between me and my sister: #QUOTE# Sister: What happen to that fly I saw buzzing around earlier? #QUOTE# '''Me:''' Oh. I took care of it, if you know what I mean. I handle the problem, if you get what I'm saying. I- #QUOTE# '''Sister''': Okay, I get it- #QUOTE# '''Me:''' -killed it. #QUOTE# '''Sister:''' (eyeroll)

This Troper explains jokes that are obvious for laughs, even if it's for his own amusement. get it, because it's obvious what the joke is?

This. Troper's. Mother. I can't get through a damn episode of the ''ColbertReport'' without her trying to explain every single cultural reference. I actually straight out tell her "to not explain it, because it'll ruin it" and she ''still'' does it.

From my drama class: #QUOTE#'''Teacher''': And... Ashton? You want to play Bottom... you're definitely ''sitting'' on that one? Haha, get it? Bottom? Sitting? #QUOTE# '''Boy''': (rolls eyes) Oh, man, this is going to be the butt of all our jokes for the rest of the year.

A couple of annoying experiences:

I'm watching the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Mutants are Revolting". In the scene where Morris offers Leela "some more of what looks like lemonade," my housemate next to me told me what it probably was. Annoyed, I said to him... well, you can guess.

Same deal when I was watching ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'' with my cousin. In the scene where Gibbs gets away with the Black Pearl and Ragetti yells at him "''Bloody Pirates!''" My cousin points out that he ''is'' a pirate, and I gave the obvious reply. Go back to the main article so you can see more explanations for more jokes that don't need explanation. Get it?