Telling Jokes

[Zoro]

I love telling jokes. But every time I tell one I get laughed at.

Seriously though I’d love to improve my delivery. I’ve told jokes and delivered the punchline and had silence before. I’m socially graceful enough to recover (I usually make some joke about how I’m bad at jokes and that gets genuine laughs, and then if I mess up I say told you so, and we all laugh anyway).

But I’d rather get better at jokes.

So I’d like to know the basics of the delivery, the pacing, the voice tone, etc. I think that’s what I mess up. And I usually have a hard time containing my laughter.

Also please leave a joke, that’s the unofficial rule for this thread. I don’t care if it’s something you googled in 2 seconds.

I’ll leave one as well:

“A man walks into a bar and sees a sign that says "Cheese Sandwiches $1" and then below that, another sign that reads "Handjobs $2". He looks around for the bartender but the only other person he can see is a really attractive woman, about 25 years old, with huge tits, at the end of the bar. He walks up to her and asks "Excuse me, but are you the one who gives the handjobs?" She replies in a sexy voice, "Why yes, I am". To which he immediately responds "Well go wash your hands then, I want a sandwich"

 

[HoofHearted]

This is a good thread. Jokes have a lot to teach us, and can help us when dating women., as well with our general state and way of being. I think highly of jokes, and am very funny irl. But not on here.

The number one rule of jokes is to keep it brief and easy to process. Slice words out of there.

Spoiler: spoiler

“A man in a bar sees a two signs; one says "Cheese Sandwiches $1" and the other says "Handjobs $2".

He asks the bartender, "Excuse me, but are you the one who gives the handjobs?"

She replies in a sexy voice, "Why yes, I am".

He responds ,"Go wash your hands then, I want a sandwich."

That's pretty much the only real rule. Jokes are kind of mysterious, nobody is sure why they work.

Some tips are that a premise ought to contain some emotional content, and a punchline ought to contain something unexpected and related. Here's a joke that I came up with when I was having dinner with some clients from Detroit.

"It's scary around Detroit, you have to really pay attention to avoid danger. One bad turn and you might end up at a Lions game."

 

[West_Indian_Archie]

They have improv comedy/stand up classes online and in most big cities.

It's worth the time and money.