Have you ever been told...

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...that you would be a good stand-up comedian?

I hear this a lot about me.

I used to.

But then I lost my sense of humour

I would probably be a good stand-up comedian.

Tim

Yes. But I usually turn beet red when they say it.

Heard that one but not nearly as much as I hear "You should work in late-night radio, you've got the perfect voice for it".
The other one I hear a lot is "man, you remind me of this guy... friend of mine's brother/brothers friend/sisters uncle/etc".
Used to hear "Are you on medication? Oh... well, have you considered it? No, no, sorry, didn't mean to offend you."

Sounds like a cool girl, though!

I have no sense of humor.

I would be, with the right audience.

At work, where they know me, my dry delivery and unusual thinking is much appreciated.
I'd be reluctant to try it on an unknown pub audience, though.

People are always telling me I should do stand-up. But I don't know what was funny about what I said. I think it's my aspie take on things, it's true but new and startles them into laughing. Anyway, I can't do it on cue, it has to be spontaneous.

yeah, but i sweat rather easily and i couldn't handle all those people(all those people=5>). if a joke failed to produce even a snicker then i wouldn't know what to do. perhaps i could joke about how the joke fell flat...but what if that failed? yeah, me and pressure don't get along.

That's what some people tell me, even though I can't think of many jokes on my own.

billy connolley is a good stand up and an aspie

Donkey! You're ass, I mean you're back! I was getting annoyed with no one to bore, I mean bored with no one to annoy!

Yes, and I avoid people like that. There's this whole section of the population that thinks I'm hilarious and laughs themselves giddy while I have tears in my eyes behind my glasses from the story I was just telling them about myself. These are the people who never approach me thereafter without a stupid Cheshire-cat grin as they await my next highly amusing tale of my years of being a social leper. I detest the feeling that the person before me is just waiting for me to say something funny. There's one guy who immediately springs to mind, who always used to listen to everything I said with bemusement and an idiotic grin. Turns out he's a narcissist and his wife is just trying to get independent enough to leave him after years of being convinced that she'd be nothing without him. These are the neuroTYPICALs. How troubling.

But on the lighter side, I guess I can see where the perceived humor comes from in a sense, after having seen Crimes and Misdemeanors, in which another narcissist, Alan Alda's character, repeatedly says, "Tragedy plus time equals comedy." He sort of right but it's still funnier when he's later likened to a braying jackass...