Is it normal to not be able to be humorous?

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If all else fails say this joke.


What do you get if you cross a penis, with a potato?









A Dictator.

Don't worry about it. My husband is very unfunny, and when he tries to make jokes they bomb and are usually completely inappropriate, he has NO sense when it comes to comedy. I'm the comedian here, and it's fine for me. No competition. You just have to be yourself and do the things that you know you can do well.

I don't care that my husband is unfunny either, it's never been the slightest issue, so really, don't stress it!! Funny people know they're funny and usually like to MAKE people laugh more than compete with other jokesters all the time. The only issue I ever have with his poor sense of humor is that, unlike you, he still hasn't realized he's NOT funny so he still tries and it gets annoying sometimes. Mostly because he'll make what he thinks is a joke, no one laughs, so instead of realizing the joke bombed he just repeats it until someone says 'we heard you the first time, it's not funny'. Then he gets butt-hurt. I wish he'd just quit!!

I've always wanted to know more about where the sense of humor comes from, it's a curious topic!! I wonder how people can recognize things as funny when other people/TV/movies are being funny but have no clue how to make a joke?? Then there's people who have NO sense of humor at all and can't even laugh at other people, let alone ever attempt a joke themselves.

I don't know if I can really offer you much help on improving, the best thing I can think of is to observe a whole lot and see if you can zero in on who laughs at what and why, so you can try to make more appropriate jokes. Different types of people laugh at different types of jokes in different situations-maybe you are a poor judge of your audience. There's different ways to be funny, too. You can be more physical, some people are hilariously self-deprecating, some people make funny observations, some have funny and very animated voices and body language, there's topical humor, and so on. Maybe you're trying to force yourself to be too funny in too many ways that don't suit you personally. Watch comedians and see how they're all different and what it is that makes them funny individually, it's more than JUST the jokes, it's also in the execution. Try to find something in your personality or mannerisms that are similar to a comedian and try to play that trait up.

This may be a gross generalisation but nearly anybody I've met who I'd class as funny is someone who appears to have had an interest in comedy from an early age. I mean in watching and enjoying it; from slapstick, to stand-up, to sit-com, to the surreal. Most famous comedians cite influences like musicians and writers do.

I don't think you're born funny, but you may be born with an interest in funny, and then your experience shapes this into a skill of your own. Which is to say, don't give up; instead, watch more comedy. Of all types. You might avoid Shakespeare's comedies but silent films to the present day, certainly.

There are only so many ways of constructing a joke. And then there are ways of telling it so even the unfunny sounds funny, i.e. Buster Keaton in "The Goat". It's silent so is purely about joke construction, and it's damn near flawless. Contrast with Joe Pesci's story-telling in the restaurant in Goodfellas when he gets called a funny guy. The story he's telling isn't funny at all. There's barely a joke in it, but his delivery is a thing to behold. He really is a funny guy!

If they told me that my life depended on making a joke good enough to make someone laugh I could not be able to do it. I sometimes try to explain funny stuff but it does not come out the way it should, ever. I am hopeless at this.

The more you know the better chance you have of making a funny joke. Watch tv, read, study, watch youtube videos, etc.

Example: My boyfriend, his family, and I went to Olive Garden. We had a cute waiter, and my BFs mom kept talking about him when he was away and tried flirting with him whilst ordering alcohol. We all started making fun of her and my boyfriend kept doing an impersonation of rubber johnny it was hilarious.

Now if he had never watched rubber johnny he would have never been able to make that joke.

;))

I like Grapes.

Im not funny either :(

Normal if your a girl. Women can't be funny, I've found