How to learn to joke to become the soul of a company

Laughter, as you know, prolongs life. And the one who causes this, always enjoys sympathy with people. Therefore, anyone who cheers the audience, most often becomes the soul of the company, people are drawn to it, they are pleased with the society of this person. It happens that a sense of humor is innate, like a musical ear and other natural inclinations. But if a child with such a gift does not learn to play the piano, he will not receive awards for achievements in the field of art. But if you train a child without a special gift from God, then of course he will not become an outstanding composer, but he will be able to play a couple of melodies. In the same way you can develop a sense of humor.

First, let's look at what makes people happy? First, it's unusual. Some unexpected turn of the situation, a new foreshortening, an original play of words. Try to look at what is happening from different angles, as if you were an alien who flew to earth. After all, what seems to us ordinary, can be quite amusing. However, in a joke, it is important not to overdo it and not offend inadvertently the people we want to make laugh. There are people who "will not spare their father for the sake of a sweet little word". Such as learns to joke, so from him, on the contrary, everyone shies - not to fall on the sharp tongue like a knife of a meat grinder.

A joke, like a spoon for dinner, is needed in a certain place and by the time. It is not worth suggesting that "everything in our country is so bad, because Lenin in the Mausoleum lies not in Feng Shui" in the cell of the Communist Party, but also in the society of people who seriously believe in the Chinese doctrine of the correct arrangement of objects. And those and others will not appreciate your jokes. Well, well, - you will say - here were given tips, how not to joke, but how to learn to joke to "give birth" even to such an uncomplicated joke?

Humor, like music, and drawing, has its own rules. Do you think that every time a comedian makes people laugh at new jokes? Analyze: there are only a few techniques hidden beneath them, and we will briefly review these techniques. The first method is the play of words. The Russian language is replete with terms that have different meanings. There are also phrases close to others in sound. How to learn to joke, playing with words? Highlight such polysemantic terms (spit, key, case). And when you are asked: "How are you?", You can answer: "This is from the prosecutor - the case, but I have business." You can beat proverbs and sayings. For example, about the stalemate situation, say: "I found a goat on the cable, and killed the goat with electric current."

Another common method is a false opposition, when the second part of the sentence seems to contradict the first, but in fact only confirms it. For example: "We are not interested in anyone, except the tax police, and we are not interested in that, but the contents of our pockets." It uses a technique similar to the previous one, only the end of the statement refutes the beginning: "It's easy to quit smoking - I've already thrown fifty times". There are also methods of hyperbole - deliberate exaggeration and false understatement. How to learn to joke using this technique? A win-win option is to attach neighbors: "He got so drunk yesterday that even his neighbors got a headache in the morning", etc. Delivering to the absurd is also amusing the people, and examples of it can be drawn endlessly from the vocabulary of the military: "Silence, I'm asking you!" And the like.

But, let's say, you got acquainted with the techniques of humor, and to give birth to something witty still does not work. But you can cheer others with other people's jokes. Try to memorize a lot of jokes and funny phrases, aphorisms and winged expressions. How to learn to joke, using them? The main thing is that the anecdote you told me was appropriate. The "salt" of this comic opus should at least somehow touch upon the topic of the conversation. Do not repeat the same anecdot several times. And if you did not cause a reciprocal laughter, do not immediately tell another such case, in the hope that he will definitely work. And what can not be done categorically is to blame the audience for lack of sense of humor.