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People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.
What people will - or will not - laugh at is mainly determined by their social conditioning.
I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'
With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.