One of the things i remember early from my early childhood is the concept of throwing a joke. The act of throwing a joke for a kid (myself) didn’t come off naturally. I had to try and learn it. I think jokes are quite sophisticated to manufacture. They require creativity, making things up, subtleity in tones, some narration as well. Doing an impression is even a higher complex tier there. I remember i decided one day that I’m going to teach myself to throw jokes.
I came with bare minimum os, i had to observe what others are doing and learn from them (well, nothing special there as all kids learn this way, mine perhaps was just a bit more awakward). Also jokes were quite not my thing: i was a very prudent kid, very shy. I wouldn’t dare to curse, or say a bad word ,or insult someone or say something stupid or illogical. For kids those were mostly where jokes are about..
I had a friend who’s the best at making others laugh through both jokes and impersonation. i never actually learned to be good at telling a joke. i was good laughter but i never actually succeeded at that part. in fact, through university i remember multiple instances where the joke was really good in my head but the end product was meh. And that made created a barrier in my head where i’d just not tell a joke. I met someone though and they laughed at my jokes and i was comfortable to tell jokes around them.