I'm confused because you seem to think I am arguing with you, but I am just trying to make sure that we all understand what was actually said. Because I think if you look at what I said, and look at what you and other people said, you'll see that there's not much to argue about.

Here is what OP said:

It wouldn’t be funny if it was obvious.

You seem to have interpreted that to mean "It wouldn't be as funny if it was obvious."

Since OP said that their joke "wouldn't be funny if it was obvious," I thought they meant that the joke doesn't work if they make it obvious.

A lot of double-entendre jokes are like that. But as you can probably tell from my original reply, I didn't think this was that kind of joke. I never intended to disrespect anybody or anybody's joke. I thought this joke was a sort of "I lost my wife" one-liner joke that Rodney Dangerfield might tell, but with the punchline played down. If it was that sort of joke, I have heard funny versions that were obvious.