I think a lot of it is natural, but you can absolutely learn to be better at it. You become funnier by watching/listening to people and what they find funny. You can watch stand-up comedians (for example) and see what the audience is receptive to. The timing of jokes, how they tell stories, the tone, the body language, and how you can adapt those into your own personal style. Having charisma also helps, which some people develop over time as they gain more experience and confidence in life. None of this can rly be contrived overnight, it is a learning process

I think it's a little of both. If I were advising somebody on humor, the first thing I would say is not to TRY to be funny - instead try to pay attention...to people, the world, and especially yourself. Patterns emerge, and humor can be mined from the experiences we all have in common, like sleeping with Chris's mom (HEY-OH!!!) see how that works? 😛

I think everyone has the capacity to be funny in their own way. Learning to be funny the "conventional" way won't work if it's not compatible with your personality. The only thing they can study is their own capacity for humour, because there's plenty of ways to train that. Dark humour might work for one person, while sarcasm and dry-humour works for another, and boisterous Robin Williams-Jim Carrey humour can work for someone else. Just get to know who you are and what works best for you.

Nope. Can’t be learned.

I think your brain has to be wired in a particular way to be funny. Anyone trying to learn that so far to me looked like a ball pretending to be slab.

I think being funny is something you have - some people I've met couldn't be funny if they studied it. That being said, you can learn to be more charismatic which could help more jokes land.

I'm not normally funny but I've been funny a few times in my life. It's how I got my last girlfriend. I don't think it's something you can learn, so much, you just have to be in the right headspace. Of course, for the most part, headspace is a lifelong thing. But I guess we have a little bit of flexibility. Not sure if everyone has the flexibility to suddenly be funny once in a while or if that's just me. Anyway, if it can happen once in a while I guess it could happen permanently. That would be harder or less likely though.

Neither, as "being funny" is a myth propagated by Viacom to help boost sells of rubber chickens

Its natural

Yes! I've witnessed it firsthand. My friend's little brother used to be a shy, timid, and soft-spoken kid until he started smoking weed.. Like a lot of it. Now he exumes confidence and is one of the funniest people I know. Not sure if there's a correlation, but it had to have aided him in some way.