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.
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Instructions
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Begin the nonsense joke as you would begin a normal narrative joke - by establishing characters and setting. These should be very elaborate.
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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).
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Try to create the illusion that this variation in action is part of some sort of plot progression.
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Wait until it seems as if your audience can't take any more.
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Deliver a punch line that is either anticlimactic or has nothing to do with the rest of the joke.
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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."
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Run.
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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.
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Feb 02, 2006
A joke is something in which you usually aren't part of, and if you use yourself in the joke, it will sound more like a narrative story than a joke with a punchline. -
Feb 02, 2006
A joke is something in which you usually aren't part of, and if you use yourself in the joke, it will sound more like a narrative story than a joke with a punchline.
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Nov 22, 2005
When telling a nonsense joke, the aim is to not make any sense. Tell it to some you know (thats not in any hurry), like a friends at work. The best character to use is yourself and a robber (friends always want to know what happened.) Don't practice a nonsense joke, make it up as you go along. In the end, it won't make any sense.
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Nov 22, 2005
Make sure to tell these jokes to someone that you don't even like, because when they become irritated, it makes them all the more funny for you.
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Nov 22, 2005
When telling a nonsense joke, the aim is to not make any sense. Tell it to some you know (thats not in any hurry), like a friends at work. The best character to use is yourself and a robber (friends always want to know what happened.) Don't practice a nonsense joke, make it up as you go along. In the end, it won't make any sense.
