Most of us are creatures of habit. We yearn for the familiar, as it brings comfort and safety. That's why we have the same friends for years, wear the same pair of sweatpants until they're just gross and why we don't quit our jobs when we should, even though we hate them and each day we go there is just one less day we have to spend living. WHOA! HEY! Let's not start that kind of talk!
It's because of this need for the familiar that we also have trouble letting go of old jokes. You know, the one that got a big laugh back in the 90s, so you just kept on using it. Old Reliable.
A word of advice: STOP! Comedy comes from playing against expectations, so every time you hear the same joke, it's less funny. That's why Two and a Half Men isn't funny - they've been making the same joke for years. Those aren't real people laughing, it's a recording of an I Love Lucy audience that's been passed around Hollywood for decades. So if you keep making any of the following jokes, you're part of the problem, not the solution:
When asking a question that gets no response, saying "Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?" This was, of course, Ben Stein's famous line from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which came out in 1986. That makes this joke 24 years old. STOP!
When addressing someone at their place of employment, "So, workin' hard or hardly workin'?" No one knows the exact origin of this phrase, which is a good thing, for that person and all of their living relatives would be tried for crimes against humanity for this dud. Yes, these words in reverse order have completely opposite meanings. We get it. That doesn't make it funny. However, this joke could be funny if said to any of the following: bums, inmates, police officers, dogs or rocks.
Saying you have "a case of The Mondays". This is not a real disease, quit trying to get sympathy from people because you aren't prepared for going back to work, which you do every 7 days. Office Space didn't make it okay to use, it mocked those who do use it. Do you want to be mocked by a 10 year old movie? No. Let it go.
If you're in a store, and an item you are purchasing won't scan, saying "well it must be free, then!" doesn't make it free. It also doesn't make you endearing. Don't make the cashier's day worse.
Also, if you're still quoting Austin Powers or Ace Ventura on a regular and non-ironic basis, shame on you. Shame, shame, shame.
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