Inability to tell jokes or stories...

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I think, that many of those, who are great at telling jokes, have to work for it. It can be learned, if jokes are memorized and practised in front of a mirror. That would be the "professional" way.

Now you see I didn't get that or find it funny. It just seemed like an out of place comment. There are a lot of jokes and joking I don't get at all. Many people have tossed a joke at me and only received a deadpan response. And then they chide me saying, "oh come on that was a joke, where's your sense of humor?" Right now I'm going through the TV comedy, Frasier, on NetFlicks and laughing my butt off. It just depends on the type of humor. I'm very selective.



I just mimicked people I thought were funny come to think of it. One time when I was a teen working in a restaurant, I had a couple of waitresses doing belly laughs. One of them exclaimed how funny I was and the manager said, "yeah but he steals all of it". And he was right. I was only funny because I was imitating good comedians and using their material.

Hi briankelley.

It was the fact that his comment was so out of place I found funny, not the joke itself. It is so ridiculous and low-humoured, that it in fact becomes very humorous to me, especially when it comes as a continuation of a quite serious discussion

Also, we have to admit doing what he described is an easy and cheap way to entertain people and it does not even take much practice.