Are you "funny"?

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There's a sort of dry humour I can manage fairly well. Sometimes, though, it's at someone else's expense and I'm not good at damage control.

i usually get told 'oh you're actually quite funny' in a surprised tone quite a while after meeting someone. kind of insulting really. but im very quiet around new people, until i suss them out, so i guess understandable
i think a lot of people dont really get my humour though.

Many children think I'm funny, and some of my friends, but I'm nowhere near being a class clown (don't want attention on me)

My wit is poor, but otherwise I think I'm considered a funny person, if just because I'm weird.

I think I tend to be thought of as 'the serious one' in a lot of everyday situations I find myself in, despite apparently making people laugh quite often. Sometimes I suspect that people laugh as to be not rude by not acknowledging my attempt at humour. I don't know though.

Apparently in my first school I became reknowned for telling jokes, though my grades were very good....the joking seemed to go through phases - I remember one boy seeing me just after I'd left that school, he came up with a big grin on his face and said "come on then, out with them jokes!" and I couldn't think of any. It must have all been spontaneous stuff I'd been doing, I can never make arbitrary selections if I'm asked to at short notice.

At the secondary school I rediscovered comedy.....the teaching had gone above my head, so I was bored just sitting there trying to make sense of nonsense, so I began making cartoon drawings of the teachers, and before I knew it I had a small following eager for the latest issue of my "magazine." My status went up........my art work was expressing ideas that the other kids could relate to - protraying teachers as stupid, sadistic bullies......and it was pretty surreal stuff.

As an adult, I've been both rebuked and praised for my sardonic sense of wit.....I try to keep it under better control these days, because it can be extremely offensive to the wrong ears. I was told I had no sense of humour by a woman whose sense of humour was just completely different to mine, so we didn't find each other's jokes funny at all.

I think that I am more silly than funny. Some people find my odd perspective on life quite funny, but other people think that I am just weird.

Perhaps 'circumstancially funny' is the best way to describe my humour.

I don't seem to get what other people laugh at, like the other day my girlfriend and her mom and her mom's boyfriend were watching youtube videos, and the one was of some Intervention episode where the guy cries, but he sounds like a dying wookie and at first it was a lil funny, but they kept playing it over and over and kept laughing and I didn't.

I seem to have a different sense of humor than most of my friends, but I'm still able to work my own jokes in there.

Funny in the sense of "good sense of humour?" Yes.

Most often, my humor plays on the conflict between ideals
and mundane things (such as whether or not you have time for a cup
from the office coffeemaker, or a freshly-made cup of java as a reward
for good work, and so on).

I have been known for my sense of humor since I was ten years old, but I've never considered if people were laughing at me or with me and I don't think I've ever really cared (so long as someone was laughing at me when I was intentionally trying to be funny the "why" would not matter). However most of the jokes that I make are solely for the sake of others, since frequently what makes me laugh will not make others laugh. I am known for laughing at my own jokes, and/or insisting that a joke I made that wasn't as well received as I had hoped was indeed funny.

I'm so funny.

I think so. Many people have commented on my being funny. It's usually me just sharing when I think up a funny way of looking at something or creative way of saying something. Sometimes the result of literal thinking can make for some good honor too.

Example:
I'm sitting in a meeting room at work waiting for the VP lady to arrive so we can start. This coworker that I hadn't seen/talked to since seating was changed (usually don't leave my bubble) is there and by coincidence, I'd run into here 3 times previously that day. Nobody was talking and I was just looking around playing dodge the eye contact. I saw a green spec of something stuck to the table. I turned and asked the coworker: "What kind of morsel do you think that may be? I think it might be spinach." Some people laughed, so I said "oh, would you like to play 'name that morsel too?'"

When things get awkward, I almost always try to say something funny. I think it helps me come across more as weird than creepy.

No. I am not funny, and do not have a sense of humor. I take everything literally and seriously.

Apparently so! Everyone says I say weird things and have funny mannerisms and usually just bust out saying whatever. Most people find that funny.