My daughter will definitely attest to this not all my jokes are winners. Some of the might even be corny but that’s always better then the “Dead Joke”. A Dead Joke is a joke that dies in mid air and crashes to the ground. Yet there are ways to survive this disaster (see below).
(1) QUICK COMEBACK- Realize you’re joke is crashing and make some self deprecating remark about yourself or the joke itself.
(2) IGNORE IT- Pretend the joke never existed and move onto the next joke.
(3)BLAME IT ON GAS- Fart jokes always help when all else fails. You could also blame the Arabs who own all this stuff.
(4) CRY- People will generally empathize with tears and even the sadistic will laugh.
(5) SING- It will definitely draw attention away from the joke. This may not work in a library though.