You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.

A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.

As always, we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.

Hey, everyone, and welcome back. Before we get started, I want to tell you a joke.

I'm just kidding.

I was all waiting for that.

I know. I thought it was going to be good. And yet, and yet she stopped. Okay, so Charlie got two dad joke books over the Christmas holidays. And he turned to me and he said, what? Why don't they just give me ties?

You know, I think that's kind of a dad joke, isn't it? Right there. They needed. And I said,

you know what? I think, I think they realize that maybe you need to up your game. I don't know.

Maybe they'll see you as the funny guy. Yeah. Here's what's on here's what's not fair about

dad jokes is that I've said this before,

even when my wife or even a kid of mine tells a bad joke, they still call it a dad joke.

I didn't say it. Why does it have to go on my record as anything that's a corny and bad joke

is a dad joke? Well, actually, maybe we'll

answer that today because actually what are we obviously what's our topic. We're talking about

being funny with our teens. That's right. Being funny with teenagers. Are y'all, do your teenagers

think y'all are funny? Some very rarely. Yeah. I lost all. I was a decent stand-up comic at my house. And then the

crowd turned very hostile, even hecklers. And I thought, what, what? But let me ask you this. Do your

teenagers' friends think you're funny? Yes. Yeah. See, what's up with that?

They oblige me.

And my kids give them dirty looks like, don't you dare.

Don't you dare go with her on that one.

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