the funniest jokes are about somebody's misfortune.

@mattclarke added a quote by Mel Brooks the other day on a post, "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."

Another strange phenomenon. If you are the first one to laugh at your misfortune, suddenly it is not funny to anybody else to make fun of it lol

There is no fun unless someone gets hurt - and if you can absorb the pain upfront, it dilutes the fun for others.

So i guess the best practice would be to take your misfortunes with a grain of humor :)

Yep.