That sounds like YOU are putting yourself in the LJBF zone by being the clown, I know I do it to. The question you need to ask is how to sexually escalate things with a girl!
Like D.Humper says first start to detach yourself and your target into a more intimate location away from the other guys, you know you end up DHVing them at your cost.
At the moment you are aware of your LDVs - but its all in your mind and they feel that as you launch into the jokes that your not really sexual?
You hug and k-close like a good gent, wheres the smouldering sexual YOU though in it.
Read more on Voice and Body language seduction.
Use your voice lowered a bit, voice drops when we reach puberty and gets lower as we mature more. Speak slower and with sexual feeling in the words, watch some films like James Bond and watch and listen to the bar room scenes. I know they are cliche but its AMOG.
One last thing- think how the other guys use you to wing for them, they probably isolate their target as you are keeping the others amused. Try next time to watch for the group interest in one of your mates and isolate one of the girls from them, doesnt have to be game but learning/practise. Just turning the girl away from the group without detaching completely will do as isolating, how do you feel at that point? , hopefully it will be sexual and not a feeling like you are not supporting your mates

- that needs to change if you want to close!
How tall are you? being chubby may make you feel shorter, get some heels or lifts in your shoes to give you some height that will distract YOU from your chubbyness

and with a better mindset you will send out positive vibes.. works for me (overweight myself)
Hope this helps to get you thinking good luck
