<p>I read all these hilarious articles on cracked, urbandictionary, and dramatica. But I can't ever hope to reach their levels of hilarity. Help! :(</p>
<p>Anyways, here’s a good theory of humor I’ve found:
[Overcoming</a> Bias : Humor As Norm Evasion](<a href=“http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/humor-as-norm-evasion.html]Overcoming”>Humor As Norm Evasion - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming Bias)</p>
<p>You’re just trying too hard. Whenever I try to be funny, I fail and whenever I don’t, I end up being funny.</p>
<p>Humour comes naturally. You can’t just become a funny person, you have to be born that way.</p>
<p>You gotta take the right opportunities to say stuff and sometimes you’ll be funny and sometimes not. It’s risky and fun. :D</p>
<p>Cracked is the bomdiggity. One of the best ways to be funny is to not filter what you say. Sometimes that just makes people obnoxious, but it also seems to be the one common string in all forms of comedy.</p>
<p>Also, OP, I think you have to have the most accurate username out of all the people who use this site. You ask so many questions !</p>
<p>Post a lot.</p>
<p>People forget the bad ones.</p>
<p>^That makes so many assumptions.</p>
<p>Or…you could simply watch Seinfeld and SNL all the time and become good at it. It also never hurt to keep up with the news; learning how to react to the news is vital if you want to be funny.</p>
<p>Don’t take advice from me, I suck at being funny. When I try to be funny, people look at me like I’m a total idiot. When I’m not doing it on purpose, people laugh uproariously at whatever I say.</p>
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<p>Scientific observation.</p>
<p>Watching SNL or Seinfeld is bad advise, those two shows are really dated. It’s weird to suggest that. Watch shows or comedy stand ups that are at least from the last 10 years. Like Comedy Central. Also spend time with people who are funny.</p>
<p>I know people in my school who used to be not funny, but found their sense of humor later on. Like in middle school they were kind of awkward, or normal, but in high school, they developed a sense of humor.</p>
<p>Comedy Central isn’t a show.</p>
<p>SNL is from the last 10 years.</p>
<p>-_-</p>
<p>Observe people who you think are funny and who everyone thinks are funny. Figure out what exactly makes them so funny. Then try copying them.</p>
<p>I did this with someone about a year ago and I went from a very somber individual to a semi-funny person. It won’t really be their exact type of humor because eventually you’ll add your own spin on it without even knowing it.</p>
<p>It sounds weird, but it worked for me :)</p>
<p>ok I meant the stand up specials and shows that are on comedy central, like the colbert report show or the daniel tosh stand up.</p>
<p>SNL was funy in the 1970s when they had chris farley and people like that but no it is useually pretty unfunny. they still do the same skits they did in the 1970s, like the fake news skit.</p>
<p>I lol’d really hard at this thread.</p>
<p>maybe, I didn’t make myself clear. I meant the old shows from the 80s and early 90s with SNL. Anyone seen the Night at the Roxbury with Jim Carrey? or Canteen Boy or Chris Farley’s Chippendale with Swayze?</p>
<p>I agree with redemption. Don’t try to be funny. Just be funny.</p>