groaner

One who groans or complains.

I don’t need to hear from groaners like you.

A work of extremely low quality, so bad as to inspire groaning.

That movie was a real groaner.

Some groaners are converted into running gags, as when Joel and his brother (Max Greenfield) get in a duel of parting, one-last-thing-before-you-go affirmations.

A particularly egregious joke, especially a pun.

From the cleverest repartee to the worst groaner, people use and respond to puns, but sometimes find them hard to define.

In the '40s, I remember ludicrous puns thought to be funny and repeated by teenagers, sometimes to a chorus of laughter. Here is a groaner example: "Mother, get off the rafters. That is no way to get on the beam." Naturally, to understand the joke, it was necessary to know the idiom of the day. "Get on the beam" meant "get with it" or understand the situation.

A whistling buoy.