Posted by Adam

Sunday May 17, 2009

Ben Stiller doesn’t find himself funny.

The Tropic Thunder star says he doesn’t know any jokes.

“I don’t see myself as funny. I am definitely low-key, not the kind of person who is always ‘on’, especially with strangers,” the actor tells Britain’s Sunday Mirror newspaper in a new interview. “I think people approach me with certain expectations that I don’t always live up to. I have never been a stand-up comedian. I can’t tell a joke. Actually, I don’t know any jokes.”

Stiller also revealed what makes his two kids — daughter, Ella, seven, and son, Quinlin, three — laugh. “I try to make my wife and my kids laugh,” he said. “Anything you can do to get a laugh out of your kids is the best and it’s infectious.

“I make the kids laugh when I become ‘Nappy Head’. It started out by me putting a nappy on my head. Nappy Head talks a lot, and he always has a toothache and there’s a dentist who shoots fireballs at him.

“My kids are not in nappies any more, but the character has endured. Christine [wife] doesn’t actually love Nappy Head at all, she finds him annoying! I wish every audience was as easily impressed with my comedy as my kids are. All I have to do is chase them.”

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