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Reality Of Being Funny

Funny people don't always have funny lives

Rachel Ann Bellenger
Feb 21, 2017
Austin Peay State University
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If you’re funny as hell like me and the rest of my Odyssey writing friends, then maybe you will find some humor in this article. Like I said, I am funny as all get out. At least, I hope I am because I brag about it all the time to people.

I let everyone I meet know I am hilarious. Over the past few years, my best and closest friends have convinced be that I AM indeed funny. If you’re like me, you have moments of being naturally funny and then you have moments where you try to be funny. Sadly, the latter seems to be the one that happens most often to me. When I am part of a huge group of people I feel most comfortable. I never “try” to be funny. I just like to enjoy the situation and I will add comments here and there that people think I am funny for. I am just saying what I feel is appropriate to the conversation.

The other not so “good” side is when I try to be funny. This tends to happen when I am with a group of new people. I will say dumb stuff that I find funny just to get a reaction because I like impressing people and I want them to like me. Deep down, is that not what we all want.When I try to be funny it ends with my guests being confused and looking at me like I am crazy. I am usually able to save myself by explaining the joke but it is not always a perfect world. Since my friends think I am funny, I often feel obligated to make such bad and dumb jokes because I feel like it is expected from me when they could probably care less. So, I guess what I’m getting from all of this is be yourself. Make jokes good and bad and laugh at yourself. My whole life is a joke so I like to take that and live in the moment.

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