How Funny Are You?
Take the Funny Test

YES	NO
		Do you think that you’re funnier than most of the schmucks you see on TV?
		Every time you open your mouth does an inner voice say, "you should be writing this down" - even during sex?
		Are you jealous of everyone who makes a living from comedy?
		Could you think of funny jokes even at a funeral?
		Do you ever think that you are the only sane one in your crazy family?
		When you get angry, do you get funny?
		Would you tell people your most embarrassing moments and inadequacies if you could get a laugh?
		Do you notice the quirks of life that other people miss?
		Do you study the minute details of life, such as lint?
		Do you sometimes imagine a future full of the improbable? Such as, "What if men got pregnant?" "What if you were born old and grew young?"
		Do you think you look funny when you’re naked?
		Do you talk back to your television?
		Did you grow up in a family where few things were really discussed and communication was at a minimum?
		Do you imitate your family behind their back?
		Do you have opinions about everything?
		Do you get accused of exaggerating?

If you answered YES...

12+
You have comedy possibility and should start paying attention to your instincts

8-12
You need to wake up and see the comedy around you

7 or below
Check your pulse and keep plugging away at your post office job.


You are as funny as you think

Garry Shandling, famous comic, would answer all 20 questions, "yes." Teri Aranguen, my accountant, answered only four "yes." If you answered more like Garry and less like Teri, then give up the spreadsheet - you have a comic’s disposition. You might be working as an accountant, but you are thinking like a comic.

It’s not how you currently make your living that makes you a comic, but how you think - how you see the world, your attitude about the absurdity surrounding you and, of course, how you can make people laugh.

If you imitate your family members behind their backs, you’re not being rude, your doing what we call "act-outs."

If you are funny when you get angry, you already know how to deliver with "attitude."
If you have opinions about the service in a restaurant, the new TV season, interest rates, don’t think of yourself as a know-it-all; you have a "hit on a topic."

And if you are insanely jealous of other comic’s success, it just might be a healthy expression of your own desires for success.

But if you want to watch other comics in clubs, follow them home and watch them through binoculars, you’re not an observational comic – you’re a stalker. Get help.

Excerpt from "The Comedy Bible" (Simon and Schuster) by Judy Carter