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How to be funny?

ol_durrrty · 2014-12-17T18:45:33+00:00

Are there any comedians that you watch and use them to learn how to be more humorous?...

ol_durrrty

December 17, 2014

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Title	How to be funny?
Author	ol_durrrty
Upvotes	2
Comments	10
Date	December 17, 2014 6:45 PM UTC (11 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/askTRP
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/asktrp/comments/2plmhu/how_to_be_funny/
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[–]tombreck2 3 points4 points5 points 11 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

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Wow, that's hard. It's something that's always come naturally to me to have a quick response. I'm absurdly good with puns. I'm trying really hard but can't think of anything that would actually help you be more funny or quick on your feet.

One thing is for sure though, don't recite other people's stand up routines. Most people fucking hate that and it makes you look like an unoriginal douche.

That being said, humor often involves stereotypes. Learn a lot of people (famous) people that everyone would know and then you can relate certain behaviors among people to those famous people. Most people will laugh just at getting the reference because they don't want to feel stupid ... There's other stuff that's word related that's easy humor. For instance, I'm cooking bulgogi tonight on the grill. Make a joke about cow-gulgi vs bull-golgi ... It's cheesy as fuck to read it but in real life people will laugh just to fill in the silence in conversation.

I sometimes recycle jokes that I've heard on the internet (none nerd related though) like .. Damn girl, you shit with that ass? Or hey, you look like you're into fitness, how about fittin' this dick in yo mouth! ... So I told you I'm grilling bulgogi, well bulgogi is thin strips of meat and I should have used foil or something to grill them because I dropped a shit ton of the meat on the coals through the grill. My bad, but make a joke out of it before anyone else can say shit. 'We lost a lot of good Korean meat tonight, reminds me of Pusan' yeah it's lame but everyone laughed. It's different in the moment. Delivery is the key, if you have a good delivery they'll laugh at anything.

Use stereotypes, like somewhere in San Francisco someone is crying over all this lost young Asian meat. What a tragedy.

The joke doesn't have to be funny for people to laugh at it. They'll become accustomed to laughing with you over everything no matter how lame.

When you tell a story be as vulgar as possible. For instance I killed 4 fish last night by accident because of temperature shock during a water change. So I made it sound ridiculous when retelling the story. I used vulgar terms like 'tits up' and 'concentration camp' 'Hitler would have been proud' I had people rolling with laughter. Always self deprecating like 'never thought of my self as a Nazi but I run a pretty efficient concentration camp for fish' it's self deprecating but doesn't actually speak negative about you ... You can always take it fuehrer, er further ... By talking about how they were greedy sub fish anyways and the next ones are going to be better. Even the fact that my daughters didn't even notice the fish were dead and my 'frantic' effort to make sure they didn't know was a good humorous story. Even though all I did was buy new fish this morning and replace them before my girls noticed ... I made it sound like an epic adventure and that in itself is humor.

The more 'funny' you are the more people just laugh at everything you say because they're conditioned. That has benefits, for example when I'm pissed off ... People listen and obey and respect because I don't abuse the 'I'm fucking serious' card. You can feel the mood change in the air like a breeze.

In conclusion it's not hard to be 'funny' but it's not really something you can work at either, in my opinion.

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