How to Tell Nonsense Jokes

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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

Step1
Begin the nonsense joke as you would begin a normal narrative joke - by establishing characters and setting. These should be very elaborate.
Step2
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).
Step3
Try to create the illusion that this variation in action is part of some sort of plot progression.
Step4
Wait until it seems as if your audience can't take any more.
Step5
Deliver a punch line that is either anticlimactic or has nothing to do with the rest of the joke.
Step6
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."
Step7
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.

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on 2/2/2006 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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on 11/22/2005 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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on 11/22/2005 Don't tell a nonsense joke unless it will have a good effect. If you tell one nonsense joke, the person you told it to will be wary of your jokes for a long time.

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on 11/22/2005 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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