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<blockquote data-quote="BasilSimonenko" data-source="post: 2598371" data-attributes="member: 883084"><p>A great sense of humour is about being able to recognize funny stuff and laugh at it! Whether the funny stuff is ironic comedy, Coincidental comedy, visual comedy, silliness etc... If you are actually trying to understand how to be funnier then that&#039;s a different question entirely. The first rule of doing comedy is&nbsp; understand your audience. There would be no point in telling jokes about God if you are at a christians convention.!!! Just like you would probably never tell a sexual joke to your granny!. There is a whole branch of &quot;sick humour&quot; that would only ever be used with very broad minded people! You get the point? So .... if you are out with the football team then a few jokes about a referee or a lines man would probably work well, if you were out at a restaurant with a wealthy client then a joke about the economy might work well. There w as one thing Sascha Baron Cohen once said in an interview which I never forgot. He said that his comedy teacher was an amazing tutor and he told Sascha that the secret to being funny was to discover his inner idiot! If you study his character Ali G then you can see exactly how this works well. Deliberately acting goofy and brainless in certain situations can be funny.. if you have that much humility! Good luck with the hunt for giggles on tap!</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="BasilSimonenko, post: 2598371, member: 883084"] A great sense of humour is about being able to recognize funny stuff and laugh at it! Whether the funny stuff is ironic comedy, Coincidental comedy, visual comedy, silliness etc... If you are actually trying to understand how to be funnier then that's a different question entirely. The first rule of doing comedy is understand your audience. There would be no point in telling jokes about God if you are at a christians convention.!!! Just like you would probably never tell a sexual joke to your granny!. There is a whole branch of "sick humour" that would only ever be used with very broad minded people! You get the point? So .... if you are out with the football team then a few jokes about a referee or a lines man would probably work well, if you were out at a restaurant with a wealthy client then a joke about the economy might work well. There w as one thing Sascha Baron Cohen once said in an interview which I never forgot. He said that his comedy teacher was an amazing tutor and he told Sascha that the secret to being funny was to discover his inner idiot! If you study his character Ali G then you can see exactly how this works well. Deliberately acting goofy and brainless in certain situations can be funny.. if you have that much humility! Good luck with the hunt for giggles on tap! [/QUOTE]

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