Vid, were you, perchance, molested by funny as a child?
...-_-
Anyway, I do believe that there are people who are funny, and people who are not. People who ARE funny probably have it a bit better, because even if they know they are or they don't, hey, they're still funny. Embrace the gift.
People who are not funny can't really be taught how to be funny, and I'm not a big fan of people saying you can learn to be. If people who aren't funny don't try to be funny, I have no problem with this, but if they do, the reaction usually just ends up being painfully awkward to the person and others, even more so if the person persists on trying to get laughs the same way later on.
Maybe it REALLY is just me, because I've not laughed at tons of jokes made by various regulars here, the quote of Glorb's in my post included, and I've ANGSTed about it in other places on how said people aren't making me laugh with the jokes they're trying to make.