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You have a summer off. Don't stick with one genre.
However, if you do and that genre is that of comedy, try some shows you may not have seen before.
Maybe shows from across the pond or up-north across the border. Maybe older shows, as well as contemporary.
The main question you have to ask yourself is whether you are looking to expanding your own self, or are you looking to make an impression on others? This could influence what type of 'input' you receive.
Funny people aren't afraid to go out on a limb or embarrass themselves, they laugh at their own weaknesses.
Watching those shows may help you lighten up, imitation might cause more awkwardness socially if your selfconcious.
When your selfconscious, constantly worring about someone elses approval,, you're not relaxed and spontanious. Always feeling like an outsider and never happy.
I think you have issues of social anxiety. Agree with a previous posters suggestion of improv classes.
Most comedy bores me to tears, as I have a very dark, ironic, subtle sense of humor, and the light-hearted comedy only leaves me frustrated and angry.
Dark humor films are far inbetween, which I understand, because it only caters to a minority of people.
But give me an old Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton silent film and I'm roiling with laughter. Or an Andy Warhol film.
It may just be you have a dark sense of humor which flies over the heads of potential receivers, or you've tested it out, and they weren't accepting of it, and it left you embarrassed.
The most likeable people are those that listen well. They know when to nod, agree, smile and frown. They don't TRY to be funny. They let others carry the ball and just add to the general conversation.
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