Trying to be funny: Classic or Dud?

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you forgot?

Example three, a fart.

Trying to be funny is basically my wooden leg. And sense I have an oblique &...dry?...sense of humor sometimes, people to whom I am barely acquainted tend to think initially I am mentally challenged. I've had like three people tell me this, "When I first mt you, something, especially your jokes, made me think you had developmental problems." :(

"Do or do not. There is no try." -Yoda

I think I hate that quote more than almost any other oft-repeated quote.

being funny, or at least trying to, is pretty much the only game i got. classic. for me.

Yah, it's fun..I entertain myself pretty well that way, if no one else.

haha that's not quite what i meant.

trying to be funny gets a bad rap, possibly a well-deserved one. generally things are either funny or they aren't and your best bet is just to be the dude who spots the gleam of buried funny and unearths it for all to see. sometimes you can force it by drawing a very tenuous link to something that is actually funny, or by just pretending that something is funny until it starts to be (bonus points if you can make the pathetic desperation which is inherent in these approaches into a secondary source of comedy). but now with the whole "random humor" trend people think they can just try really hard to be random (which is bad enough in itself) and this will lead directly to comedy. NEEDLESS TO SAY, THESE PEOPLE WILL DIE COLD AND UNLOVED

Humor doesn't often come from trying; it comes from noticing.

yeah, what he said

I was originally just gonna post something in here asking if "funny people" tend to notice random funny things in the world around them more often than other people, but then I was like "wait how would they know"

To be fair, the Yoda do-or-do-not quote is less stupid in a universe filled with an omnipresent magical Force.

Like if you tried to zing Yoda by throwing him off a cliff and going "fine, then, FLY or DON'T FLY," there's every chance he would indeed fly back up and kicked your ass would be.

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Yeah, part of the reason I hate that quote is it's so solemnly attribute to YODA every time. A tiny pickle-elf man who does not actually exist. It was painted on my high school's wall in huge letters with a portrait of Yoda & everything. God, yeah, it just doesn't work for exactly the reasons you state.

nabs quit tryna be funny, yr gonna disrupt the methodology of the study

Yoda ripped all his material off various Zen masters. Egregious thief he is.

It was painted on my high school's wall in huge letters with a portrait of Yoda & everything.

haha that's kind of terrible

That yoda quote is stupid. Trying is all we can do, the final outcome isn't in our hands.

I don't try to be funny, but my default conversation setting seems to be "respond to comment with joke". What's wrong with me? :(

I was very tired when I wrote that, the answer is now obvious to me: I'm really annoying.

i guess it depends on your sense of humour... me, i find unplanned funny stuff way more comical than 'trying' to be deliberately funny. stand up doesn't really thrill me too much, and i find lots of comedy tv shows far too forced to make me laugh. but i know lots of people think that stuff is hysterical, so it must be very subjective. for me though - people trying to be funny = DUD