ime being funny requires an awkward period of obvious intent to learn how to hide intent and the impact of intent - and to deepen intuition about humor.

When I was grocery bagger, in addition to bagging, I had to talk people into letting me take their groceries to their car. It was boring and my mind needs a task, so I'd play a game where I tried to make each of them laugh. In the end what I learned is that humor largely comes from consistently exploring something deeply. Everything beyond what's assumed is surprising (often benignly threatening) and incongruent merely at a factual level which is 9/10s of humor. The other 10th is emphasis/delivery if I'm not missing other things.