A study has found that millions of people believe they are the funniest person in their friendship group. Research into friendships revealed that a quarter of adults think they are the ones who spark the laughs during banter with their buddies.
How Brits try to prove their humour
To back up their claim, 44% point to the reactions their WhatsApp jokes receive, while 31% say they regularly have their friends in stitches down the pub. The same number reckon they crack everyone up at work.
Around 27% say even their partner thinks they are hilarious, while 31% believe they are funnier than their other half. The poll suggests the nation is full of wannabe comedians, with almost two thirds (64%) convinced their circle of friends is the wittiest, funniest and smartest around.
Group chats worthy of a podcast
The survey of 2,000 Brits, commissioned by Echo Falls, found 61% believe their friendship WhatsApp chat is so entertaining it deserves its own podcast. Four in 10 fancy themselves as a podcast host, according to the data.
Overall, 41% describe their group chats as “hilarious”, while 16% say they are juicy and 8% admit they are downright scandalous. The average Brit belongs to eight group chats, although just 25% love them all, 16% only enjoy one and 38% like just two.
Top conversation topics include memes (39%), banter (38%), work (36%), problems (34%), gossip (31%) and health (29%).
What the research suggests
Taran Dhillon, of Echo Falls, said: “Group chats are where so many of our funniest, juiciest and most unfiltered conversations happen, from the post-night-out debrief to the friend who always has a story to tell.
“With our new research showing that nearly two thirds of Brits think their group chat could be good enough for a podcast, it seems we’re all a lot more entertaining than we might give ourselves credit for.”
