Funny vs. Not Funny

Recently I had a bit of a scare when it appeared that I had completely lost my sense of humor, due, apparently, to my age, which now rounds to thirty more easily than twenty-five.
You see, the band was taking an early morning flight to who-knows-where, and our flight attendant, bless her heart, thought she might lighten our spirits with song. You may have heard the singing-stewardess shtick before, and odds are you thought it was funny.
I didn’t.
Not at all.
Maybe it was the hour, maybe it was the fact that I couldn’t even get a full can of soda out of these people, maybe it was the fact that my boarding pass numbered me “B53”, (which is the subject of another journal entry, perhaps).
Needless to say, by the third verse of “Sweet Home, On-The-Runway”, several fellow flyers were rolling in the aisle, and I found myself not laughing. Not chuckling. Not smirking, bemused, entertained, and not humored.
Ryan Shupe let me know that it was my age showing. So I’ve been giving a lot of thought to this for a few weeks now, and making sort of a mental list of things that I think are funny, and things that I think are not. Fortunately for me, I think my sense of humor is mostly returning, but I need to test myself on it, I think. Here’s a list of things that come to mind as funny, and not funny, that I’ve been using to calibrate myself. See what you think:

Far Side Comics – Always funny.
The Family Circus – Never funny.
Dilbert – Always funny.
Peanuts – Almost never funny.
The Simpsons – Hilarious.
Full House – NOT FUNNY.
The Emperors New Groove – Funny.
Shrek 2 – Not so much.
So I Married an Axe Murderer – Awesomely funny.
Johnny English – Not funny.
Martha Stewart going to jail – Funny.
Gas prices going up – Not funny.
Slapstick Comedy – Not funny.
People who think Slapstick is funny – They’re funny.
My toddler misbehaving – Funny.
Other people’s toddlers misbehaving – Not funny.
The fact that the mean age of Green Day is 53 – Funny.
The fact that some mega country stars are like 13….. Not funny.

Well, that’s all that comes to mind at the moment. Maybe I’m older, less funny, and less able to appreciate the funnier things of life. Or, maybe singing flight attendants at six-o’clock in the morning just really isn’t funny. I’m guessing it’s the latter.