I'm sorry are you being sarcastic?

About a week after Paul to my house for Thanksgiving last year the new Canadian character on 30 Rock had this to say:

“I’m sorry are you being Sarcastic? Canadians have a hard time understanding it because we don't have a large Jewish population.”

I was watching with my mom and dad and we had to pause the DVR we were all laughing so hard. We are Jewish and we pride ourselves on our sarcastic sense of humor, it sustained us as a people after all.

But it turns out there was more than a bit of truth to this quote. I think people consider me funny. Some have even told me I am. But here, nothing. A great example. After paying for a coffee the other day, I pulled out my “frequent customer” card to be punched. “Thank goodness I found that” I said “ being unemployed the free coffee is pretty much all I have to live for”. The barista? She looked at me as if I had told her a free coffee was all I had to live for. But for real.
Oy!