When People Groan at Puns

First, reflect on the audience to your puns.

If they are puny brains without the capacity to understand a pun, their reactions would be more similar to the "Duh, I don't get it," which keeps you pretty safe, but defeats the point of making a pun. Whereas if your audience is composed of classmates, your pun might be understood, but you might receive collective hatred.

In the video, Ryan Higa and D-trix use puns as a way to tire each other out, but also strengthen their bond, knowing that since they are both pun-ks, their jokes will be well received.

When you receive a groan, just play it off as it was supposed to be bad. That's what I [Matthew] do! Groans can actually sometimes mean it's good. It depends on the tone of the groan. When you receive a threat though, its a bit of a different story. Threats never come from actual hatred for the person, only jealousy of the pun they heard. So when Thomas makes a pun in English class, and I [Matthew] get mad, it's usually because of the fact that I didn't think of the pun before Thomas.