Sometimes, being funny is hard, but being funny and smart can be even harder. To be funny and smart, you first have to be a smart and insightful person. Your funny and clever sense of humor will make people laugh, or at least smile at themselves. If you want to develop a funny and clever sense of humor, or if you are already funny and smart and just want to hone this talent of yours, please follow the steps below.
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Step 1. Learn from funny and smart people
The easiest way to increase your humor and intelligence is to study other people who have a good sense of humor. You can learn from many sources, from movies to your funniest closest friends. Here's how to learn from those who are funny and smart:
- Spend more time with people you think are funny and smart, whether they are relatives, close friends, or acquaintances. Pay attention to what they say when they make other people laugh. Also pay attention to their facial expressions, the way they convey their words, and their timing.
- Read literature written by funny and intelligent people, like Shakespeare, the Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, or even comics like Garfield or Dilbert. You can learn a lot from funny and smart people (or animals) of any generation.
- Watch TV series or movies featuring funny and smart people. For example, Woody Allen's films always feature a funny and clever protagonist.
Step 2. Be confident
Before you can start wowing people with your cuteness and intelligence, you have to give off an air of confidence to show people that you're comfortable with yourself and your jokes. If you are confident, people will have more confidence in your abilities, including your ability to charm people with your cuteness and intelligence. Here's how:
- Use positive body language when you tell your jokes. While you don't have to pretend you're in front of an audience, if you stand straight, speak clearly, and make eye contact when you get to the point of your joke, your joke will be more successful.
- Believe in yourself. If you love who you are and love what you do, people will be more motivated to respect you-and your sense of humor.
- Show confidence in your jokes. Make your jokes clear and show that you believe what you are saying is funny. If you show confidence that you have a good sense of humor, people will believe it more. However, this doesn't mean you have to laugh at your own jokes. You just have to tell your jokes in a way that shows that you don't care what other people think because you already know you're funny.
Step 3. Be an original thinker
Part of being funny and smart is the ability to think outside the box and not see the world as everyone else does. Being contemplative and broad-minded will increase your ability to see the world in a unique way. Here's how to be original:
- Read as much as you can. If you know a lot about the world, you will have a unique and unbiased perspective on the things around you.
- Don't be afraid to sound weird. Being free and open with your sense of humor will make people laugh. For example, if your boyfriend asks you to buy a notebook, you might say, "Okay, I'll write it down on my mind."
- Create your own words. For example, if you and your friends are always gossiping about someone named Emil and you're tired of hearing about him, you might say, "Now I'm applying Emil-bargo!" While people may think you're weird, they'll appreciate your witty combination of words.
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Use common phrases in a unique way. For example, if you just came out of a public bathroom and a person of the opposite sex asks you, “Are these toilets gender-specific?” You might say, "We can't be exclusive."
For example again, the question "How are you going to spend a billion rupiah?" invites us to think creatively. Answering her with "I'm happy" will twist the question in a funny and clever way
Step 4. Understand your audience
Understanding your audience is the key to your success. While you should try to form your own distinctive sense of humor, you should also identify the types of people around you and the things they find funny or hurtful. Here's how:
- Don't forget to listen to the people around you. Listening to the people around you will help you understand what they find funny and what they find hurtful because it is such a sensitive topic. By listening, you can also discover comments that you can then use in your own jokes later.
- Be sensitive. If you are in a group of people who are very sensitive to religion, for example, then you should avoid making jokes about this topic. They won't find you funny, and they might not even want to hang out with you anymore.
- Tailor your jokes to your audience. Try jokes that are more "wild" for a more modern and younger audience, and use jokes that are safer and more conservative if you're with your grandparents.
- Understand when people aren't in the mood for jokes. While antics in general can be useful in any situation, if you're with someone who's very angry, sad, or sick, joking around can lighten the mood or make this person hate you. So, be careful.
Step 5. Get your jokes right
Even the best jokes fail if they are not delivered well. Delivery is something you can learn in front of a mirror, or even with a voice recorder, before you try it in front of people. But even if your joke is a spontaneous one, there are a few tricks that can help you deliver it better:
- Speak clearly. Tell your jokes clearly and confidently. If you just mumble your joke, people will just ask you to repeat it, and the humor will be gone.
- Remember that timing is everything. Part of being funny is being sharp and alert, so don't hesitate too long or people won't understand how your funny comments relate to the ongoing conversation.
- Try to keep your jokes flat. If you're really confident, keep your jokes flat and wait for people to laugh. You should avoid telling your jokes in a way that makes people think you think what you're saying is funny. In being funny and smart, you have to build the impression that you don't care whether other people laugh or not.
- Don't interrupt other people. This should be obvious, but many good jokes don't work because the joker is talking when someone else is talking. Wait for a pause in the conversation before you tell your joke.
Step 6. Don't overdo it
Following as many steps as possible to being funny and smart will increase your chances of being funny. However, don't try too hard to make people laugh, or they'll feel sorry for you instead of thinking you're funny. Here's how to avoid going overboard:
- Relax. Even when you're trying a new joke, try to relax. Stay calm when you're telling your jokes, and don't speak too loudly and unnaturally or look around you to check people's reactions.
- Don't tell too many jokes at once. Being funny in the right moments is more effective than trying to crack a joke every five minutes.
- Stay calm when your jokes fail. If no one laughs, just let it go and say, "Next time I'll make it," or "Ooops-the people are just not right." If you look sad and disappointed or are quiet, people will think you care too much about whether they laugh or not.
- Take a rest. If you've already cracked a few jokes, relax for the rest of your day, and observe the funny people around you. If you focus too much on being funny, you could miss something important that could help you be funny in the future.
Tips
- It's important to be funny and smart, but if you're always being sarcastic, it might be wise to cut it down a bit, or people won't take you seriously anymore.
- Repetition will kill your cuteness. Don't repeat the same jokes.
- Remember, you can make mistakes once in a while and still maintain a reputation for being funny and smart. Even the best comedians can't always make people laugh with their jokes.
- Studying funny and clever characters is a very useful trick. Some examples of funny and clever characters are Edmund Blackadder, Arnold Rimmer and Alan Partridge. British comedians usually make a lot of sarcastic jokes.
- Set a character as an example for you and see if you have a similar sense of humor to them.
- Don't overthink your jokes. If you have something funny on your mind related to the situation at hand, just say it. But don't be too pushy to tie your words to a particular situation. Just wait for the next topic.
