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So, some ideas I've been playing with (not entirely jelled) about frameworks of humor, and what I'm good at and what I'm not:

A while back Lynette told me I wasn't funny - a damning accusation for a man, right up there with being a "bad driver" or "not good at sex". Now there's nothing more hopeless than trying to convince someone else about what's funny, but when I pointed out I made her laugh pretty often she recanted, though still held that there's a certain kind of funny that I am not.

Lately we've been poking at what that is. When I try to be funny, I'll often A. making some kind of incongruity or weird connection (and puns are kind of in this space, banking too much on a phonetic connection) or B. I'll lapse into a very temporary character with appropriate voice, like for a quick bit of mock anger or dumbness or what not.

And Lynette points out that I don't have a lot of "witty banter" mojo. (Or game in general which is a different story... or is it?) Like I think I'm witty, or at least quick-witted...

So I'm trying to play with this idea that there's this other kind of "wittiness", one that is more reliant on a fixed, judgemental persona... a solid platform for snarky cut downs, for instance. Or a confident base for expressing desire, and confidence in having goods on offer - this is where "game" comes from, I'd say.

But it makes sense to me that I'd be bad at humor (or "game") based on judginess - my whole shtick is not judging things (I shy away from pronouncements that might not be objectively true, my whole life is a "Only God Can Jugde" tattoo but Judge is spelled wrong) I mean in a way the "incongruity" humor is a form of judginess but it has an aspect of letting the listener draw their own conclusion.

Also I'm trying to figure out why I LOVE hopping into a quick voice, but other types of persona changes - flirty roleplay, halloween costumes, LARPing - don't appeal to me at all. Maybe I lack the courage of my convictions, this sense that taking on a longer term falsehood of a role has to be done perfectly, or not at all? But it seems false to me, and I quickly lapse into my affable goofball non-judgey true self.