Do people think Stephen King is funny?

2 days ago 7

I like to read King a lot, but one of the things that bugs me the most about his writing is that he has literally never written a funny line of dialogue, not once ever. This wouldnt normally bother me, not everyone has to be funny. But in all of his books that I have read, there is at least one scene where he really over-emphasizes how all the characters are just dying of laughter, when the joke wasnt even remotely funny. Or he will write people where their main core character trait is that they are a funny guy full of jokes even when jokes arent appropriate (thinking of eddie from the dark tower and Richie from It off the top of my head), but literally not one of their jokes land. I mean, canonically they land, but in reality King has never once made me even smirk.

Am I the odd one out here? is everyone else smiling at these jokes, or is he just really unfunny and feels the need to force his bad humor on all of us?

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