Eight comedians

are in a bar telling jokes. “Twelve!” one of them says. The others burst out laughing. “Four!” shouts another, again cracking up the others. When a third hollers, “Twenty-two!!!” forget it, they’re all guffawing. Except the bartender.

“What’s so funny about just calling out numbers?” he says.

“We all know the same jokes, so we gave them numbers,” says the first comedian. “To save time, we just shout out the numbers.”

The bartender decides to try it and yells, “Six!” A dead silence falls upon the bar. “Why didn’t I get any laughs?” he asks.

The comedians shrug. “You didn’t tell it right.” —via Friarsclub.com