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I may be completely wrong, but this suggests the sort of conversation where the point is displaying your quick wits and facility with small talk, and keeping up with the flow is most of the point. Is this with one particular person, one particular social group or something that you find happens lots in many situations?
Happens lots in many situations.
Does booze help?
Interesting question. I'm so rarely in a group conversation situation involving drinking that I can't tell.
In that case it sounds like you need to be faster at keeping up with the flow and not worrying too much about your input. The display of social wit is itself the point of quite a lot of conversations, including ones that one would assume were about the content. As usual with humans, everything is tribal politics.
I tend to turn any conversation into a display of social wit. I don't feel comfortable around people until I know I can make them laugh. As for interfering with content, I hope not, but it's possible. Especially when I'm out of my depth.