Comedic timing

As I was contemplating this, I realized I seem to have a couple of underlying recurrent themes....aging and genetics.

Is witticism something we are born with? Wouldn't you almost think that a good comedic timing would have to be? How would you learn that? My daughter is blessed with it. It is part of what gives her such a natural stage presence. Also what takes her from just a singing to an acting ability. Pretty sure my son has it too. Being 10 and ALL boy, he is just a clown all the time.  I have a tad of it. There are times when I can be hilarious and there are times when the great lines just won't come.

Humor was always prevalent in my home growing up. My dad is quite often cracking jokes or being silly.  My oldest sister always says I got his sense of humor. Probably right. But life, in my case, tends to lend itself to my sense of humor. I don't see the point of getting upset when all goes wrong. Gotta just laugh. Of course, our particular sense of humor is lined with a sick, sometimes macabre, undertone.

Much of it, I believe, is being ABLE to see the humor or find the humor in things...be it an everyday thing or something that's just begging to be made fun of. A friend pointed out to me the other day the irony of having hand soap that is white, creamy, and slimy. Not everyone would find that amusing or would even understand why we did.

Case in point, as I was driving my daughter back to school yesterday and we were just chatting, she mentioned her former drama teacher is dressing as Casey Anthony for Halloween. I told her I had seen a status update that said, "I was going to dress as Caylee Anthony for Halloween but my mom would kill me". We both chuckled and saw the humor in it. She proceeded to post it as her status and although some thought it funny, others were offended.  We weren't born with that filter that keeps inappropriate things from being said. :-)

I get a lot of comments from friends about my facebook status updates. What most of them don't know is that my funniest posts are usually on days when I am feeling the most down. Those are the days that I am looking for anything funny or even cynical to hide or mask my actual mood. Only a few will read this so only a few will now know. I do wish that I could think of all those posts that make everyone laugh. Most are things I have seen or read elsewhere. Occasionally, they are mine, but not most. I get a real kick out of making someone else smile or chuckle so when someone comments that I've done so, it boosts my morale more than anything.