I sometimes try to think of ways to make Dennis Miller funny. I have to use a calculator to decipher his complex gags, and when the punchline shows up, it's been ten minutes of taking notes, getting ready to lol, but then, kind of like I'm doing here, when everyone is thinking, "boy this had better be funny" and start looking at their phones, it's usually too late for humor then, and the awkward silence in place of the laughing means the joke has ended.