Have you ever told someone a story that you thought were funny, only to realize when you are done telling it that you could not get the funny point across?

Happens to me all the time, and I just say “well, you would have to be there for it to be funny”.

Humor on the internet is somehow even harder. Sure those smilies might help get the point across :    ;/, lol, rofl and so on. But in real life when you tell a story, you never start laughing before the story is over. The same goes for the internet, it’s not as funny if you have to use smilies to get the point across.

Does anyone have a solution for me?

PS: I tried to find a funny illustration for this post, but could not find any. Need something better than Google (didnt find anything on Bing either)