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Top 10 Funny Conversational Starters
Humor is personal, though, so if you can, get an idea of the sense of humor of the person you are talking to first. Does he or she tell jokes? Do they add a funny angle to their stories?
Adding humor to your conversations is easier if you understand what makes something funny. The two main aspects to this are:
1. Surprise
2. Relationships
Basically, that means keeping a punchline hidden until the very end of the joke, or bringing some unexpected element into your story, and building a relationship with your listener. To make other people laugh, you need to be relaxed or else your audience will not feel relaxed enough to laugh.They will feel uptight. So, stay true to your own sense of humor. Plenty of people will like it.
10. “Excuse me, but I do think it is time we met” will put a smile on most peoples faces without sounding too intimidating.
9. Share something funny that happened to you, especially if it was the same day. You will sound modest and that is quite an attractive quality.
8. “What kind of old person do you want to be?” intrigues people. Everyone hopes to get old and sothey will have an opinion. Also, though, it will make people smile because you are taking old age as something positive – an unusual twist on any everyday topic will make people interested.
7. You could share a fun story about your children. They are a rich harvest for fun stories – and cute too! You could then ask something like ‘what is the weirdest thing you brought home when you were a child?” Take a little trip down memory lane with the person you are talking to.
6. How about asking – ‘what is the best question in the world?’ You are going for the element of surprise and this one has the added benefit that it sounds like you are interested in getting to know the other person.
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