what no one tells you about being the 'funny guy' in the group

Jeffrey is about to tell another self-deprecating joke when Adonis pulls him aside in private and shows him how his friends really talk about him. Adonis makes Jeffrey realize that his friends were not his friends in the first place, they just used him for laughs.

When I was 15 years old, I said something that got me everyone's attention and made all of the white kids laugh, so I ran after the ball and tackled one of the guys and shouted sneaky Packy. After the crowd of people who were laughing diverges their attention spans already went off to the next thing, and the one real friend looking at me a little bit awkward, she can tell that she's already forgotten about her.

The lesson of the story is to not lower yourself by telling self-deprecating jokes to get people to laugh, especially people who aren't even your real friends. Boys aren't taught how to make real masculine friends with other boys in Primary School 10 years later you're in high school and you're acting in this really weird inauthentic way to get attention from others. But the person who's bringing that cheerfulness to others can have a crushed spirit in himself.

When your own friends don't take you very seriously, when they merge with other friendship groups, especially with girls, everyone's subtle behavior towards you is very clear, and this makes it seem like you are low down in the social hierarchy, and this can be quite a painful experience.

If you want to be the funny guy in the right way, you need to ask yourself if you are seen as the clown or the hilarious Chad.

The real friend is the one who looks at you when the crowd disappears and thinks why are you talking like this, and the jokes you tell him are quite different to the ones you tell other people.