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Thinking "funny stories" doesn't work because the information isn't filed that way. However, those stories likely are filed with connections to states of fun and humor, so if you get into that emotional state first, you'll likely find contextually-funny stories coming to mind... or simply make situational humor in the first place.
All of your strategies have the problem that they're focused on the wrong part of the brain: your abstract intellectual beliefs don't mean anything anyway, as they're stored in the part of your brain that was designed for bullshitting, rather than actually doing anything.
The belief systems that actually run your behavior have to be parsed out by engaging concrete imagination, not intellectual abstractions... in precisely the same way that your funny stories aren't going to come out when you think the words "funny stories", instead of the feeling of being funny.