The “funny guy” and why I hate him.
I think in every group of friends there’s always that one guy that has to have more attention than everyone else. I can name at least 3 off the top of my head. And I hate every single one of them. Often times this person will make snappy remarks toward every sentence anyone else in the conversation can manage to get out of their mouth, usually rudely interrupting and talking over everyone. This person, commonly known as “the funny guy” seems to absolutely need people laughing at him to feel accepted. While this clearly comes from the individuals own insecurity and inability to feel loved by other people, it does not make him any more desirable or well-received by those around him, even understanding this.
The Funny Guy is not always The Funny Guy, however. The Funny Guy is also commonly known as Arrogant Prick, Knowitall, Dick, Douchebag, and other like-minded terms. It all depends on how he feels pressured to act.
The Funny Guy is, more often than not, introduced to a group of friends by one individual who, for some completely unknown reason, introduces him as “hilarious”. This will probably be the first time your friend has ever even hung out with The Funny Guy, and as such, The Funny Guy will have an extra incentive to be “the funny guy”.
The Funny Guy will immediately begin looking for an opportune moment in the conversation to cut in and make a joke. Unlike anyone with wit, intelligence, or originality, The Funny Guy relies on old, tired jokes that you’ve all heard a million times before and no longer really wish to hear ever again, even if it was well-placed. In the case of The Funny Guy, you can’t hope for it to be well-placed, because he’ll completely overuse popular jokes, most of which he heard on Family Guy, always with bad timing and illogical conversational placement. The Funny Guy, silent until now, will leap into the conversation as if with great conviction to deliver his awful one-liners and responses.
What makes these comments worse is that The Funny Guy will actually try to pull these off as if he had come up with them. Probably coming from his Arrogant Prick alter-ego, The Funny Guy seems to think that by saying these things that were actually clever the first time that were ever spoken anywhere, ever, he too will seem clever and witty. He will not though, and rather, he will look like a fool, and leave his new “friends” completely annoyed and unimpressed.
There is usually one person who laughs politely at his ridiculous little contributions to the conversation, but 9 times out of 10, that sheepish laughter comes from the person who brought The Funny Guy over, now dying inside with regret. When The Funny Guy sees that his peers are not bursting with laughter at his extremely clever comments, he will often do a follow-up joke that is as equally over-told and obnoxious as its source material. He will say this, again, as if he had written the joke himself and as if he had practiced telling the joke in his head a dozen times before saying it out loud.
Another obnoxious characteristic of The Funny Guy is to make jokes about a person in the room who he doesn’t know, about a subject he shouldn’t be agreeing with. Someone will make a remark about another person and everyone will laugh, and Funny Guy will laugh too while everyone politely ignores the fact that he has no real reason to be laughing; clearly having no idea what anyone is talking about. While this is most common in just laughing with everyone else (usually louder than everyone else, too), in some cases, The Funny Guy will actually make a joke about the person who he doesn’t know, about a subject he knows nothing about. As always, this will be a joke everyone hates hearing due to its highly unoriginal nature.
At this point, everyone around him will want to go home, and the person who brought him already wants to commit suicide for their extremely socially unacceptable act of bringing this disagreeable person in their premises. To make matters worse though, The Funny Guy, in his desperate attempt to find openings to stick his recycled material in, will accidentally cross the line, and deeply offend someone. Rather than apologize and take responsibility with sensitivity, The Funny Guy will instead get very angry for some reason, not being able to admit that he could ever, EVER, be wrong or flawed in any way whatsoever.
If you are this person, stop hanging out with anyone you know. Now. Save them the trouble. Nobody likes you and you make people angry with your self-praising attitude and arrogant aura of douchebaggery. Stop breathing or something, okay?
