> I'm actually a pretty funny guy. It's just that I'm not very extrovert. Not that I mind having attention and stuff, I cope with that just fine when finally I have it. It's just that I have trouble getting it in the first place. Besides, I like one-on-one communication best.
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> This has an annoying side effect.
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> You see, some people steal my jokes, and then *they* come off as the funny one. I have noticed this especially happening with one friend of mine, and thought it was a thing *he* did; that *he* was the problem. But yesterday, I went to a concert with *another* of my friends. He also went with other friends of his, which I don't know very well. In the intermission, I said something funny to my friend, and because of the seating and the noise in the room, only he heard it. That was OK, because that's what I intended. But then he instantly passed it on to the others, and they laughed. He came off as the funny one, while I sat in the background and wasn't noticed at all.
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> This is, of course, frustrating. Not because I crave the attention and recognition that comes with people thinking you're funny. Well, that, too, but mostly because I hate when people get the wrong impression of me.
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> Has anyone else had this experience?
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> Trav"and what can be done about it?"holt.

You may remember a chubby comic named Jackie Leonard. He billed himself as "a very dull guy." He could rattle off one-liners so fast you couldn't catch a breath between belly laughs. Yet he did it with a dead-pan expression. The poor man had no personality. Ocassionally he would show a slightly pained expression, but that was it. One of his best gimmics was the imaginary slide show, with no projector, no slides, no screen. I don't even think the remote in his hand was real. He would click the remote and say, "Here I am trying to get on a horse."
Click.
"Here I am cleaning my shoe."
Pained expression.
Maybe you don't have to be an extrovert to be funny.
Howard