Coldwashed Comedy

Before you deliver your jokes, and be laughed at because they’re not funny enough, better test them.

Test #1: Are you amused with your own joke?
If you want to make a joke and solicit a few laughs from other people, you wouldn’t deliver a joke that’s not funny even to you. It is impossible to crack a joke that the comedian himself or herself doesn’t find funny.

The idea of joking is that the comedian knows a funny idea, laughs at it himself or herself and wants to share it with other people. If you create your own joke and have passed this first test then you may reveal and test your joke to others.

If you want to re-echo a joke, you would prefer a really funny joke. You wouldn’t want to share it in the first place you were not able to appreciate when it was delivered to you.

Test #2: Can you make a person laugh at your joke?
You may get the help from your friend or co-worker or family. When you deliver a joke and your single viewer had a genuine laugh at it, you may say that your joke was funny. At least it worked initially for this person.

Much of a successful joke’s story is delivery. You may have a really funny material but you weren’t able to bring out the punch line properly. Either you were a little slow in stating your joke or your joke wasn’t funny at all.

One important thing to consider also is relation. Can your viewer in the first place relate to your joke? Did he or she understand what you were saying? If not then he or she would really miss out your joke. Sometimes you would end up explaining your joke.

If this happens, it isn’t entirely the fault of the person if he or she wasn’t able to pick up on your joke. Try another instead.

Test #3: Did it work for a group too?
Testing your joke to a group is challenging. The reaction that you got from your friend or family may not be the reaction that you can get from a collective body of people. If your bigger audience laughed at your joke then your joke is a sure hit!

There may be some who would really go wild laughing their stomachs sore. This would help you since laughing is contagious. Others may laugh not exactly at your joke but at the reaction of their seatmates or the people in front of them. This is still a good thing.

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