Hi everyone, I'm an introvert in high school (possibly autistic) and I've always had a very select group of friends but I struggle to make new friends at work or school. Figured it was because I didn't talk enough. So I looked up some stuff about how to make conversation and everything pointed to the same thing: ask questions and more questions. So I tried it out, long story short it didn't work for shit, I had no idea why till someone came up to me and started doing the same thing. Then I noticed how utterly boring that kind of conversation is. I couldn't wait for him to go away.
This got me thinking, I've always had some people I was always happy to see, and they have loads of friends. So what do they do and how do I do it? One of my friends always acts super excited when he sees me and it just makes me happy aswell and glad to see him, maybe it's just that happiness is contagious? But when I looked around me more I noticed that I was never excited or happy to see this girl that acted the exact same way. Same excitement, but I didn't feel happier when seeing her or anything.
Then I figured it out, the guy I was happy to see was just super funny, every time he jokes he makes me laugh and he does it so good. I'm always happy to speak to him because I just know he will make me laugh. That's also how to make the boring conversations fun and how people sort of get drawn to him. Making people laugh is the way to make friends.
So now that issue is out of the way, how do I become funny? My jokes never hit and are repeated, predictable and boring and with a monotone intonation. So jokes need to be delivered unexpectedly and intonated correctly. I just have one problem:I can not think of jokes or funny sounds or funny things to do. I've just been copying other funny people and I guess it's been working better but I just can't do it and I've been trying to improve, be more creative but it's just so hard.
So my question: What are ways to become more funny or make me able to come up with funny things to say/do?