A man is mortified when, after having endeavoured to divert the company, he looks round and sees that nobody laughs at his jests but himself

Adam Smith

Adam Smith with timeless observations, this from his less heralded tome The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

Smith describes that all to awful social interaction – the joke no one laughs at.

Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. United Kingdom, Penguin Publishing Group, 2010.