Many people enjoy hearing a good joke, many others love telling one. However, telling a joke is far harder than it sounds. In fact, ruining a good joke is far easier than telling it. However, there is a right way to tell funny jokes, and it all lies in the set-up, punchline, and timing.
Know your audience. That is the key to pulling off the perfect joke. When you have a receptive audience, you have a successful joke. In order to come off as funny rather than obnoxious, think about the four kinds of jokes you can tell. These are the clean jokes, blond jokes, politically incorrect jokes, and the best joke ever heard.
Once you are sure of the type of joke you are going to tell, you have to make sure you have it memorized perfectly. Nothing is worse than a badly set-up joke. You have to know it inside and out. The set-up builds the joke up and takes it in an expected direction. Remember not to start laughing halfway through the set-up or you will ruin everything.
During the set-up, you reeled them into thinking one thing. Now you blast them with a punchline that is so totally unexpected, that it throws them off guard. A good punchline is the opposite of what they thought was coming. You will know you achieved it by the laughter around you.
The perfect set-up and punchline is nothing if your timing is off. The timing must build up the anticipation of the punchline. To do this, pause after the set-up, look around at your crowd. If you can, zone in on one person in particular, zap them with the punchline, and then look around at the rest of your crowd. If you deliver it perfectly, your good joke will be a great joke.
Be relaxed and confident when telling your joke. When you stumble over your words or fidget around, you make the audience a bit nervous and they are likely to lose interest. So you have to be relaxed when you tell the joke, it should be as if you are talking about everyday things and not telling a joke, that is how relaxed you should be. Then the joke will just come out naturally.
Make sure you keep the joke as short as possible, without losing the important stuff. Extra, unnecessary details just bore people and make it harder for you to remember. The faster you catch their attention, the better the punchline is when they hear it. Remember, a great joke is short and simple.
Joke telling is a part of life, everyone seems to have one, some better than others. Sometimes it does not matter how good or bad a joke is, if the person telling it can set-it up and hit the punchline perfectly, that joke is suddenly great. Nothing breaks the ice faster, cuts through the tension easier, or makes meeting people more fun, then sharing a good joke. However, keep in mind, never laugh at your own jokes, at least not until everyone laughs first.
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