I think a lot of things people think he was deadpanning, he might have been deadseriousing.
But may personal favorite bit of Christ humor is after healing a fellow paralyzed on a mat John 5, he tells him to carry his mat around, knowing this will attract the Pharisee's attention on the Sabbath.
5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”
11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”
12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”
13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
I always felt like this was delivered with a bit of a wink toward the Pharisee definition of sin and their hypocritical attitude, the "something worse than being paralyzed on a mat" meaning "the Pharisees will come after you"
I have no idea though, maybe the mat fellow got paralyzed 38 years ago when jumping out a bedroom window to avoid being caught in an adulterous affair so this was serious too. But I always enjoyed the first interpretation and it makes sense to me to see the humor in the character applied this way and directed towards the Pharisees. I'm pretty sure God invented humor, it would surprise me if his Son had none.
