Cold joke: Definition 1: The speaker is quite calm and basically expressionless. After listening to it, the listener should be stupefied and think about it before he feels funny.
definition 2: cold jokes generally go beyond conventional thinking, which is not in line with logic and life reality, making people feel stunned; Although some cold jokes are quite funny, in any case, they will not laugh as much as those after listening to "normal" jokes; A joke that is not funny at all, a very boring joke, but it can achieve the purpose of mental relaxation, because this kind of joke is not easy to understand; Brainstorming is a cold joke. (especially the kind of idioms borrowed from homophones and English, and the kind of puzzles such as peanuts and recent flowers).
definition 3: a cold joke is actually a joke that is not funny at all, a very boring joke, but it can achieve the purpose of mental relaxation, because it is easy to understand without thinking, but it can have a long aftertaste.
definition 4: a cold joke refers to a joke that feels different from a general joke and is difficult to laugh because of its own problems such as homophonic characters, translation, omission of subjects, different logic, judgment and special content, or because of the performer's tone or expression. A cold joke doesn't mean it's not funny, it's also a manifestation of humor. Sometimes a cold joke is not funny, which is one of the laughs of the joke.
definition 5: a cold joke (called rotten gag in hongkong and rotten stalk in Taiwan Province) belongs to a kind of failed joke, which means that an originally funny joke can't achieve the funny purpose because of the problems of homophonic characters, translation, omission of the subject, different logic, or judgment and special content, or because of the performer's tone or expression, etc., and it is difficult to make people laugh, but it doesn't mean that the joke itself is boring. Now, most people will smile when they hear cold jokes, and sometimes they will make a gesture of hugging their arms: "It's so cold!" Or speech and performance related to cold semantics, such as chills, temperature, air conditioning or hot weather, etc.