Recently, I came across a blog that was funny. You could even call it hilarious. Crisp, and made a great read. I wonder why I can’t come up with stuff that can tickle the funny bone. My friends say I have a good sense of humour.

But I guess my sense of humour is what you could call on-the-spot-humour (if at all there is anything like that!). What I am really bad at is narrating incidents that I think are funny. You know when I narrate them to someone I myself realize that the funny part is really missing. There is not much laughter that I manage to elicit.

I remember a couple of times I have found something so funny and have badly wanted to narrate it to someone that I even ended up rehearsing how I would narrate the event. And was I successful? My so-called funny narration fell flat on its face. At the most my audience smiled, none laughed.

While on humour, it’s actually interesting to think about the kinds.

Like I have an Uncle who is a great example of deadpan humour. His face is so straight even as you are roaring with laughter at his joke. Then I have a colleague, who can give constant banter, make weird sounds, and come up with punchlines that are so catchy that you just burst out. I guess his could be called slapstick humour – a la Chaplin. I have a feeling he will make a damn good standup.

Then there’s my roommate who is witty. She is so amazing at one-liners that I sometimes even feel like making a compilation of them (just shows how jobless I am sometimes).
A friend has the habit of coming up with funny stuff at such an alarming rate that after a point you have to beg him to stop. Then there are so many I know who are good mimics.
So where do I fit in all this scheme of humour? I guess I am good at responding to humour. People are probably encouraged to display their comic skills when I am around :)