00:00Today, you'll learn five types of jokes you can use to make people laugh using examples from Samay Rana.
00:04One person will vomit, and the other person will vomit, and the other person will vomit, and all of them
00:08will vomit.
00:08That's how the podcast scene started in India.
00:10Yeah, right.
00:11The first way is masking your reveal.
00:13In every joke, there is a setup and a punchline.
00:15And usually, the punchline has something unexpected.
00:18Take whatever is unexpected in your joke and make it the last few words of your sentence like this.
00:23I am such a big fan of your husband.
00:26Because halfway through your sentence, if you take a slight pause like you just saw, people will want to complete
00:31your sentence in their head.
00:32And when you say something different from what they thought, that mismatch will create humor.
00:36You will see many people use this exact structure to get a laugh.
00:40For instance, in these clips, notice that the funniest thing is always the last few words of each sentence.
00:45Have you seen it?
00:46Latent, have you seen it?
00:47I have seen it in these clips and parts of the news channels.
00:53Sameh, genuinely, I think we can all say this with absolute clarity and be so, so grateful for all the
01:00last that we've had thanks to Kapil Sharma.
01:03Sometimes, you can also agree and amplify what they said.
01:06Here, watch how Sameh takes the idea of regret from Aliyabhat and builds on it.
01:10I can't believe you're here.
01:12Genuinely.
01:13Yeah, I'm kind of regretting it right now.
01:16I've seen it as well.
01:18The way you can do this is to take what the other person is expecting you to say and just
01:23say the opposite of that.
01:24My trainer has been six months.
01:26He travels with me everywhere, all the shows he comes.
01:28Now, when he says his trainer goes with him everywhere, you expect the next thing to be that he got
01:33leaner and fitter, right?
01:34What is the opposite of that?
01:35He's got three kilos.
01:38Now, Cracking Jokes is largely about confident delivery.
01:41If you'd like to learn how to speak with confidence, I wrote a free speaking guide for you.
01:45It's linked in the description.
01:46But when you are in conversation, if you can be the first one to crack a joke, you will automatically
01:50be seen as a conversational leader.
01:52Hi Sameh, how are you?
01:54Welcome to Chal Chatra Talks.
01:55I'm a little nervous.
01:56Yeah, why?
01:57Last time I started with a podcaster, it didn't go well.
02:00Because most people are incredibly serious and they typically don't want to be seen as the first one to crack
02:04a joke because they are worried what will happen if it fails.
02:07People like Sameh are also incredibly witty.
02:10If you want to develop wit, we first have to define what wit is.
02:13Wit just means same language, different context.
02:16Have you taught you the N-word here yet?
02:18The what?
02:18Namaste, namaste.
02:19Namaste.
02:20The N-word means something in English and it means something else in Hindi.
02:24Same language, different context.
02:26The way you can do this is through an intentional misread.
02:29You intentionally misunderstand something to make people laugh.
02:32Watch Sameh do that here as he's asked about the most impactful moments of his life.
02:36Which has been the first BC2AD event of your life.
02:38The first.
02:39I think being born.
02:42Witty people are not literally coming up with funny things to say on the spot.
02:46They typically have themes of humor in their mind and they tend to repeat that.
02:49For instance, here Sameh is picked up on ice and he uses that theme repeatedly.
02:53Tired if the ice people come.
02:55Yo, man.
02:56How long have you been back before, man?
02:57I am here until the ice sends me back.
02:59In fact, you will literally see Sameh calling out how he thinks of performing on camera.
03:14A few minutes after he talks about falling like you just saw, this happens.
03:23Now, most people associate him with his dark humor.
03:26But who all are there in your family?
03:28I mean, until 1991, many people are there.
03:30And then I think a couple of grandfathers didn't make it.
03:34Outside of a close group of friends, dark humor is incredibly difficult to pull off because it risks offending people.
03:40And Sameh even keeps going on, teasing and messing around with the interviewers that he's speaking to.
03:45You are not popular.
03:46Like, no one cares.
03:48No one gives a shit about you.
03:56But there is a reason it typically doesn't offend people.
03:59And that is because in addition to teasing, Sameh is very lavish with his praise for people.
04:04For instance, he will often joke about Balraj as a father.
04:06You're the worst father in the world.
04:08Isn't his wife here?
04:09Yeah, imagine.
04:10No one with the kids.
04:12Then he will mix that with heartfelt appreciation like this.
04:15Horrible father, but the best friend you can ever have is Balraj Gai.
04:18And we see the same thing as he's ending his conversation with Rajshamani.
04:22Thank you so much, bhai.
04:23Take care.
04:23Love you, brother.
04:24Bye.
04:24Humor is just a way to connect with people.
04:26I got obsessed because this was the only way for me to build a connection with somebody.
04:30This kind of connection also applies to connecting with yourself.
04:33Perhaps the best way to be funnier in your own life and in your own style is to notice what
04:37makes you laugh and watch some clips of that before you go out to meet people.
04:41One important aspect of humor is the emotional psychology underneath humor.
04:46I'll not chase the jokes.
04:47I'll chase what I want to say and make it funny.
04:50So if you want to be genuinely funny, you have to understand the psychology of humor.
04:54If you'd like to learn more about the psychology of humor, watch this video.
