To be tired of friends comedy double act?

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My lovely friend is very funny on her own, she’s witty and a little sarcastic very much in a Jenifer Saunders type way. She’s not the type to “try” and be funny constantly, she just is … it’s her one liners, her facial expressions etc … she often has me in stitches and she is a good friend.

Anyway a few weeks ago she asked me how I was getting home one night and I said I’d be waiting for a bus. She said “Percy” will give me a lift (her boyfriend) as he was picking her up and they’d be driving past my house on the way home. I was very grateful.

Percy arrives and I get in the car. Immediately the comedy duo begins … sniping at each other, “comical” arguing back and forth … Insults to and throw … it was funny to be fair and I did laugh but it was constant, all the way home (30 minute drive) and by the end of the drive I was definitely fake laughing.

Percy has given me a lift every week since and the comedy act has happened the full drive every week - I’ve always laughed along but in all honesty it’s gotten a bit tiring now, it’s not actually that funny to someone not in the joke … I’ve laughed along to be polite but I’m bored of the act now!

So last night I didn’t laugh. I smiled at the jokes but didn’t laugh. Friend asked me if I was ok and I said I was fine, just knackered but did make an effort to say this with a smile! Percy then started to bring me in on the jokes and started throwing low level insults my way (nothing offensive) - I did laugh at that (the insults was funny) and she was punch him everytime and then it just got worse, comical shouting at each other, punching each other etc … all the while friend keeps looking at me to check if I’m laughing!! She text me late last night to ask if I’m ok again as I seemed unhappy in the car …

if I say I don’t need a lift home now she will know it’s personal but I can’t carry on this fake laughing!! It’s driving me nuts!! AIBU

This is not witty or funny.

Sound like school kids.

They sound awful. Nothing remotely funny about those examples you included. They just sound like a weird bickering couple. Whyyyy would your friend expect you to laugh at any of that???

get the bus and then get some new friends, life will be much more pleasant I promise 😁

Sounds painful. Buy a bike.

Tell them someone has died when you get in the car, when they ask who say it was a stand up comedian friend/family member and listening to them and their hilarious banter is too painful.
Comment on how funny her partner is and how sexy you find funny men, she might stop offering you a lift…
Say you moved house? or move house.
Say you fancy the bus driver? And you want to get the bus to chat him up?
Maybe claim a sponsored silence (not in work hours)
You could develop a grating laugh like Janice out of friends?
Maybe pretend you don’t get the joke and laugh in the wrong places? or you could start telling your own very unfunny jokes and monitor them carefully for their appreciation - if you can get a word in edgeways… If they don’t laugh then nudge them vigorously whilst saying “do you get it? do you?… do you?!
personally I’d go for the comedian friend dying, every time they tell a joke then fake cry and shake your head and say “Sorry I can’t, it’s just too painful”

I knew a couple like that and I used to do a really fake over the top laugh, it came across as pure sarcasm and they did shut up, things were very awkward afterwards though. My partner just tells people to shut up if they annoy him and I’m a bit jealous of that, he’s autistic though so people are more accepting!

Yes it's sometimes difficult to communicate with people you're close to, because once you've 'communicated' what's on your mind there's a good possibility the friendship will suffer.

You need to change the pattern for a couple of weeks only with something plausible like visits to a dentist or chiropractor so you can get the bus. After that, carry on taking the bus. If she pushes for the reason you continue with the bus, say you use the time to contact your mum/sister/lonely neighbour.

I think for thirty minutes a week, I would just suck it up though. They sound diagnosable.

This would be awful having to listen to unfunny toilet humor.

Can you wear earplugs and noise cancelling headphones?

Did you tell them they aren't/weren't funny yet?

Any update or is this yet another thread were the op disappears..

Is op still getting the lifts with the potty mouth who thinks he is super funny.