I have a problem that really hurts my confidence.

People that KNOW me constantly amog me. (so called friends)
They make me look bad in front of new people all the time.
I am not good with clever come backs, can you kind people suggest any way out without not being friends with my friends.
I don't want to tell them up front that their jokes hurt me because I don't want to show them my weakness.
I am constantly bashed for my bad come-backs to their mean jokes and thus
questioning my intellect.

You have to show your friends that your not going to put up with their shit anymore. Don't let them try to guilt trip you by saying "ah come on man were just joking around" if there crossing the line. Make it clear that your not the butt of their jokes and if they continue to harass you then stop hanging out with them, I'm sure a good freeze out would be appropriate here ha. To get respect from some people you cant just give them respect and expect it in return, you have to take it. Its a well known fact that Alphas love intimidating and harassing Betas, your job is to not be the beta.

Sounds like your friends are lame. Cool people never do that shit anyway. Of my 10 best friends not ONE would do that and it's not b/c I've got great comebacks, it's because they're cool people.
Most of my friends just happen to be 'naturals' and those type of people very very rarely try to make others look bad b/c they don't need some artificial confidence boost. Go find some guys that are naturally charming and hang with them instead. You'll probably learn something from them and have a blast at the same time.
You could also try just completely ignoring it. It sounds hard but just change the subject and look at the people they were making fun of you in front of and make some facial expression like "what is this moron talking about?" then carry on talking about something else. Best bet is to drop these goons though. You don't need that.

The best way to deal with this would be to talk to them about it. If don't want to do that here's the other things you can do. You could act like it doesn't bother you and imply that their childish for insulting you; i do this alot, but that's becuase it's nearly impossible for me to feel insulted and you'd be surprised how pissed that can make people.

The other thing would be to some how dimiss the insult as nothing while at the same time making fun of the other insulter.

I'm not that great at comebacks either, but what i've found works best is to make it seem like you weren't affected by the insult in the first place and make it seem like you're still in controll of the situation.

....yea that's my two cents on this; i'd've explained it better but it's hard to becuase i do most of my comebacks on the fly. Some one help me explain this better.

I understand where you're coming from. I am sometimes made fun of since short (5'4") and also for y religion (Judaism). I find that good friends will understand where you are coming from and won't continue bashing you, but asshole friends (we all have em) just never seem to learn otherwise. THose are the people I have trouble with since they seem to have no care towards the feelings of others.

i get the same shit but me and my friends have been close since 1st grade. we all pick on eachother for things. sometimes girls like it cause we know eachother so well and can think up some really fun stuff that doesnt come across very harmful. but one of my friends would get drunk and shut out some deep fucked up shit. so i told thats some fucked up shit that you did out of jealousness and it wasnt cool anymore. and he stoped.

Thanks for the replies. Im too much of a sensitive guy, but I'll try ignoring them and see how it works out.

yeah what Id do is to really take the one who is doing this the most aside one day and tell him straight up. "Yo your my friend and all but your kind killing my pu$$y rate. Your always talking shit infront of the chicks when im trying to do my thing and its messing up my game. dude come on no one likes a cock block."

at which point they would either see what your saying and be like alright I'll try not to mess up ur lil PUA tricks!

or they'll be like "dude shut up you know you weren't going to get that girl anyways."

at which point I would decide to go sarging without them at least for a while until you can come back to the party with an hb on your arm but this is jmo tho

I'd recommend ditching them. They're douches.

Failing that, don't even use comebacks. They talk shit, you ignore them. Forget that they're even there. They get cut out of your reality for acting like assholes.

Drop them.

Or isolate them when you go and meet women and then have some anti amog things back! make the girl laugh and make him look like a try hard.

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