A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
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I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my every instinct is to be funny, and I'm always having to dampen that down.
I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.
Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.
You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.
I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.
You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.
The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.