Why have a lot of genuinely funny people so often faced depression throughout their lives? ?

Question

Is there something about depression that somehow makes a person funnier? For example, I recently saw a program about some famous stand-up comics who recently admitted to struggling with depression throughout their childhoods

Personally, I've struggled with it since I was 10, and my friends are always telling me that I'm funny as h**l. So what's the connection?

Answer 1

Well most comedians I know of have been depressed because they couldn't get a break/people told them that they weren't funny.  That kind of encourages them to work harder at it and as a result makes them more funny.

Answer 2

To be frank, there's no big connection ....

Genuinely funny people are da ones who love to keep people around them smiling irrespective of how they feel inside ....

These heart warming souls tend to be actually sensitive, while they pretend da other way .... so they get hurt & manage to hide that too!

They crave to be as happy as they pretend to be in reality, but sadly it doesnt happen so .....!!

Answer 3

I believe it is because a depressed person looks at life in a different way, they see the subtleties in life that often go overlooked by people who breeze along without a care.

People with depression are often very observant and can often draw upon the experiences of being depressed when they no longer have the symptoms.

Many famous comedians have Bipolar Disorder, they tend to write their funnier stuff when manic because they don't have the same inhibitions and have extra energy.

Answer 4

Well for me, I have to get goofy and laugh at least a few times daily, otherwise the blackhole of darkness opens up and tries to suck my soul out of me... o_O heh...

Answer 5

ezy< hoow is macking thim lafe?