Nope, a joke that makes fun of a friend's concern isn't just lame, it's mean and unfunny.

But I like the jokes in the papers. Some journalists are pretty good at making things sound juuust factual enough, but still a bit off. And the old ones are hilarious. There was a classic story on the tv news once in the 70s, when pasta was a strange and exotic food here, showing how Italian farmers harvested spaghetti off the spaghetti trees