How to Tell Nonsense Jokes

These types of jokes may not make any sense, but boy, they sure don't make any sense all right.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Hand Buzzers
• Dictionaries
• Joke Books
• Helmets

1. Begin the nonsense joke as you would begin a normal narrative joke - by establishing characters and setting. These should be very elaborate.
2. Have your character or characters repeat an action in a slightly different way over and over again over a prolonged period of time (the action of a nonsense joke usually takes place over the course of a character's life).
3. Try to create the illusion that this variation in action is part of some sort of plot progression.
4. Wait until it seems as if your audience can't take any more.
5. Deliver a punch line that is either anticlimactic or has nothing to do with the rest of the joke.
6. Put your punch line, for example, in the form of a moral that doesn't make any sense: "The moral of the story is that 7 out of 10 people prefer mint chocolate chip ice cream to raspberry frozen yogurt."
7. Run.

Tips & Warnings

• Use a lot of adverbs and adjectives to make your nonsense joke longer.
• When a teller laughs at his or her own joke, the joke loses its effectiveness. This is especially true if the teller laughs before the punch line.
• A nonsense joke is a joke that typically takes a very long time to tell, is very redundant, and has a senseless or unsatisfying punch line. The humor of a nonsense joke isn't in the joke itself, but rather the irritation that you develop in your audience by telling it.