Funny Speeches: Retort When Jokes Bomb

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"Alright, the next thing you need to think about when you're planning to use humor is, think about and possibly plan some kind of comment, some kind of retort you can make if your element of humor totally crashes and burns. Ok, you tell a joke, you tell a story, you tell a anecdote, you look in the audience and this is what you see. Ok, nobody's laughing, nobody's smiling, nobody's blinking an eye. Well, for you to save face, and not be, or to certainly help your absolute mortification that nobody laughed at your joke, come up with something funny. You know just a little, brief statement. If you don't know how to do this, you can watch the late night, you know, the talk show hosts that come on after the news. Your Jay Leno, your David Letterman, those live TV personalities, who they tell a joke and nobody laughs and they're always able to come in with just a quick zinger of a comment. You know, "Well I didn't think it was funny either". Or whatever it is, that helps you save face and transition and move on."