I don't know if that's true. Comedians are notoriously unhappy and it's fairly well known that suffering can lead to comedy and the class clown is hiding their inner pain. cf: Catch-22, interviews with comedians.
You and a few others made the same comment. Comedians are professionals who read a prepared script. All of them.
I was talking about genuine, spontaneous humor. Not in a setting where you're acting and where others know you're acting. Not when there's an audience. Spontaneously funny about bad things happening in real-time, in real-life, in a personal setting.
Even really good unhappy comedians would have a hard time with that one.
I think you'll find that's not exactly true. Many comedians are excellent at improv, that also makes them really good at keeping up the act in front of everyone around them.
