How Do I Become Funny?!
Question: How Do I Become Funny!?
My friends are all funny people who can make great jokes!. Its not that Im pathetic at making jokes its just that im a serious person and not good at making jokes!. Do you have any tips!?Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
First, get some training!.
Funny is not always natural; you CAN train to be funny!. A fact you probably agree with or you wouldn't be asking for ways to get funnier!. Look into local improvisation, clowning, theater, stand-up, and sketch-writing classes!. Watch and read about comedy--and don't just watch to laugh, but watch and ask "what made that joke work!?" and "would that have been funnier if!.!.!.!?"
Second, practice!
Enter comedy contests (especially film!. The editing process can be very enlightening on how half a second can make the difference in a slight chuckle and a fall out of one's chair laugh)!. Go do stand-up at an open mike night!. Tell jokes to friends and family!. Yeah, some fail, but each time you learn a little more about why!. Ask any professional stand up: they've all had nights where they bombed and that's how they honed their material!.
Third, learn about comedy!.
Get some books and read up on it!. There's all sorts of comedy out there: parody, satire, puns, slapstick, comedia del'arte, political, low brow, high brow, prop, sketch, etc!. Study up! You'll not only learn more about being funny, but you'll develop a range so that you aren't just one type of funny!.
Fourth, learn about NOT comedy!.
People love references!. References to pop culture, to history, to politics, to current events!. Some of the best and funniest comedians out there - Conan O'Brien, Al Franken, Bill Mahr, Dennis Miller, Jimmy Carr, Robin Williams circa 1980, Penn & Teller, etc - are also some of the smartest, most attuned, most up-to-date and informed people you'll ever meet!. Knowledge gives your comedy breadth and depth!.
Fifth, hang around funny people!.
Funny people tend to make you funnier!. You can study them, or just lose yourself in the moment with them!.
Finally, don't try to be funny!.
Seriously!. Most comedians who feel the need to be "on" all the time actually aren't as all there as you'd think!.!.!.and if you watch them, they aren't as funny as they seem, either!. It's a trick!. They throw so much mud at the wall that enough sticks, but they have a lot of misses, too!.
And, if you try to hard to be funny, you forget that funny varies from person to person!. Your "funny" friend may only be funny because of who he or she is around!. Would those same jokes be funny to a preacher!? A soldier!? A man!? A woman!? etc!. trying to be funny often limits your range in my experience!. I prefer quality funny to quantity funny, myself!. I'll take 10 REALLY good laughs in a 30 minutes sitcom to 30 OK ones, any day!.
Besides, there is a great joy in being the "straight man" who sets the funny guy up!. There's a reason there is a Laurel AND a Hardy, an Abbott AND a Costello!.
Oh, and don't view laughs as the only gauge of whether or not you are being funny!. Laughs can be misleading!. Good comedians can also make you cry, cringe, and cuddle!.
As Keith Johnstone put it (roughly): "You may drool and people may laugh!. So, naturally, you drool again to get more laughs!. Soon, you're known as 'the Drooling Comedian' which is NOT your goal!. Don't be deceived by laughter!."Www@Enter-QA@Com
Funny is not always natural; you CAN train to be funny!. A fact you probably agree with or you wouldn't be asking for ways to get funnier!. Look into local improvisation, clowning, theater, stand-up, and sketch-writing classes!. Watch and read about comedy--and don't just watch to laugh, but watch and ask "what made that joke work!?" and "would that have been funnier if!.!.!.!?"
Second, practice!
Enter comedy contests (especially film!. The editing process can be very enlightening on how half a second can make the difference in a slight chuckle and a fall out of one's chair laugh)!. Go do stand-up at an open mike night!. Tell jokes to friends and family!. Yeah, some fail, but each time you learn a little more about why!. Ask any professional stand up: they've all had nights where they bombed and that's how they honed their material!.
Third, learn about comedy!.
Get some books and read up on it!. There's all sorts of comedy out there: parody, satire, puns, slapstick, comedia del'arte, political, low brow, high brow, prop, sketch, etc!. Study up! You'll not only learn more about being funny, but you'll develop a range so that you aren't just one type of funny!.
Fourth, learn about NOT comedy!.
People love references!. References to pop culture, to history, to politics, to current events!. Some of the best and funniest comedians out there - Conan O'Brien, Al Franken, Bill Mahr, Dennis Miller, Jimmy Carr, Robin Williams circa 1980, Penn & Teller, etc - are also some of the smartest, most attuned, most up-to-date and informed people you'll ever meet!. Knowledge gives your comedy breadth and depth!.
Fifth, hang around funny people!.
Funny people tend to make you funnier!. You can study them, or just lose yourself in the moment with them!.
Finally, don't try to be funny!.
Seriously!. Most comedians who feel the need to be "on" all the time actually aren't as all there as you'd think!.!.!.and if you watch them, they aren't as funny as they seem, either!. It's a trick!. They throw so much mud at the wall that enough sticks, but they have a lot of misses, too!.
And, if you try to hard to be funny, you forget that funny varies from person to person!. Your "funny" friend may only be funny because of who he or she is around!. Would those same jokes be funny to a preacher!? A soldier!? A man!? A woman!? etc!. trying to be funny often limits your range in my experience!. I prefer quality funny to quantity funny, myself!. I'll take 10 REALLY good laughs in a 30 minutes sitcom to 30 OK ones, any day!.
Besides, there is a great joy in being the "straight man" who sets the funny guy up!. There's a reason there is a Laurel AND a Hardy, an Abbott AND a Costello!.
Oh, and don't view laughs as the only gauge of whether or not you are being funny!. Laughs can be misleading!. Good comedians can also make you cry, cringe, and cuddle!.
As Keith Johnstone put it (roughly): "You may drool and people may laugh!. So, naturally, you drool again to get more laughs!. Soon, you're known as 'the Drooling Comedian' which is NOT your goal!. Don't be deceived by laughter!."Www@Enter-QA@Com
If you are a serious person, then just be yourself!. You can't really learn how to be funny, if you are not a natural clown then play to your strenghs and impress them with something you are good at that they might appreciate, don't try too hard!. Real friends like you for you!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
lets see!.!.!. then if you are a very serious person i think you can pick up jokes in tv!.!. or at least try to copy the techniqs of jokers in order to copy themm!.!.!. But if it doesnt go as well as you planned to!.!. just try being yourself and just dont make or act or copy your friends
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watch tv and get jokes from thereWww@Enter-QA@Com
key thing is u gotta stop bein such an uptight dick and stop caring about stuff, just kick it and live life!.Www@Enter-QA@Com