Ten tips to being the class clown
- 2. #1 Know the audience, a knock-knock joke won’t be funny to a group of senior citizens.
- 3. #2 Know the joke! If you mess up or forget the punch line, then the whole joke will be RUINED.
- 4. #3 Don’t tell jokes that everybody already knows, you won’t be funny and you’ll look like a… …LOSER
- 5. #4 Keep ‘em short. Lots of details and a long plot will take away from the humorous content.
- 6. #5 Don’t steal jokes from stand-up comics. Jokes are material, and it is how they earn a living.
- 7. #6 Raunchy and dirty jokes are NOT classy and can be offensive so please, try to avoid them. Stay classy…
- 8. #7 Make fun of your own flaws. If you joke about someone else’s then they will take it personally and might give you a tear instead of a chuckle.
- 9. #8 The humor doesn’t have to come from a joke. Lots of situations that people laugh at often come from character exaggeration and vocal expression.
- 10. #9 Remember that this is a classroom so your jokes should occur at appropriate times, unless you want to face the wrath of the teacher!
- 11. #10 The point of being humorous is to make everyone laugh so just have fun with it!
