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| Posted: 05 Jan 2006 19:46 Last Edited By: handlemistakes | |
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Imagine that you sit on a round table with about 10 or up to 20 friends, clients, working buddies, classmates or just some new people that you barely know yet, maybe even a mix between those categories. You sit there mostly quietly but then apparently invent a joke or remember a good joke that you heard before somewhere that is so funny that you must step up and tell everybody. You are very clear and tell the joke in the way you wanted, you get everybody’s attention, they listen but apparently not laughing on the end. Someone of them might say "ooh key" and then they slowly make a new topic to discuss.
A particular reason that probably made them to do so was that they found it to be pointless or disgusting or both pointless and disgusting. Another reason could be that they already heard that joke before. After you´re done with that, you might do like many of us, sit down quiet for the rest of that event until the group split. Doing so will hurt your reputation because they think; doesn’t he/she has something else to come with except for that useless joke? So it's nothing I would like recommend, unless you would like to be known for the boring one. What you can do is to make a new joke, a successful joke that makes them forget your old one. But not to repeat the old mistake, you must follow a few rules: 1. Don't make an old joke that you already heard before because there’s a big chance that they also heard it before. 2. Make the joke fit your target audience. Etc.. If they are a bunch of car people, don't make a computer joke and so on. It's however ok to make a general joke (about sex, booze.. etc) that everybody understands. 3. Its very good if the joke fits the conversation; some people may be irritated otherwise. 4. And do it as clear as possible so everybody gets interested. You don't have to “imitate a monkey” aka “doing gestures”; it's ok as long as you can speak with a clear voice instead of mumbling about something they don’t understand. 5. 1-4 makes your joke ok, but you can improve it further if you are more descriptive in longer-story-jokes. Etc.. if your jokes include characters then describe them with a little relevant description once they show up in the story, then end the description after all important things have been said and go back to the main story by saying "well anyway..". If you don't get it, then watch this example of a text in the story: "so they went to Jake, Jakes biggest passion was playing poker at casinos, he wasn't any good at it because his thumb was broken but he did it despite the odds. Anyway, when they came to Jake..". But if your jokes still sucks after all those advices then just leave a comment here in which you describe the circumstances. It might also be possible that your target group doesn't like you personally but love your jokes, so they spare the laugh until you go away. |
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