My experience is that when comedy fails, it's the comedian's fault. Even when the material is terrific and the crowd is lame, the fault is the comedian not reading the room.
A comedian blaming the crowd is like a carpenter blaming the hammer.
What the joke & structure? What’s the setup? What’s the punchline? Asking legitimately so I can hear your comedic take.
Yeah, best not to socialize too much in that way. I used to work a contract government gig and would usually be the only person there at 5am to avoid traffic/get home early for kids and the only other person to come in pre-8am was an extremely religious person (well, and a janitor who believed in nephilim who had human decendants who walked along us--- but he didn't socialize, so much a listen to crazy shit while cleaning)
Anyway, you better believe I didn't share my dark athiest humor and still got along fine somehow, maybe since I let out just enough edgyness to be interesting without being alienating. It's indeed walking on eggshells, but so is having pro-trans views, anti-capitalist views, etc.; that's what we have online circles on Lemmy for.
Don't make anti religion jokes at work unless you're with people you know well and that they will be ok with it, and you're in a private area.
You need better co-workers.
Have you considered not being an asshole?
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