This is the opposite but somehow has the same energy as stubbornly trying to explain why a joke is funny.

Here's the rule about comedy: either you get it, or you don't and move on. The deeper you dive in, the more unbearably cringy it becomes, and no one will ever be able to convince you whether it is actually funny. Let it go, man.

Here's one to cheer you up: time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.