Make Hilarious Comebacks
Making hilarious comebacks can make you a force to be dealt with and others will think twice before cracking a joke about you or making fun of you. But beware some people can get mad when you outwit them. Yet there are many ways to reach this goal.
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Steps
- Get ready to make a lot of bad jokes. If you overcome the common fear of embarrassment or failure, you can become a comeback master. In the beginning, you will probably make plenty of bad comebacks because the most important thing to do is always make a comeback no matter how lame. This will train your mind to react quickly.
- Once you have overcome the fear of making a bad comeback, you can begin the real training. The perfect comeback is made up of four elements: it must be somewhat true (even if exaggerated), it must be clever, it must be funny, and you have to use the right tone when you say it.
- When you make a comeback you should be making fun of someone's flaws but only their innocent or small ones. You don't make a joke about someone being mentally challenged, but you do about being slow when they normally say something smart, you can make a joke about someone being too tall or short, fat (might be touchy) or skinny. Unless you know the person well it's best to stick to superficial flaws. Otherwise you come off like a mean person, and not funny. In short you should be teasing the person.
- The perfect comeback should be clever, original and have the element of truthfulness in it. In other words, don't make a comeback with a "your mom..." joke, or "you're so fat..." Take this quote by Mark Twain (or was it Will Rogers?) "We have the best congress money can buy." You could use it (of course, not with 'congress') if the situation calls for it - they call it turning a phrase. It's clever.
- The perfect comeback must be told in the right tone. To do that you must have the right attitude about it. You have to have a mixture of playfulness and seriousness. But if you're too serious you will just sound like a jerk. Also, be energetic!
- You need to befriend someone better at it than you are. When someone makes fun of you and it's a good one, you might lose your cool and your ability to think of a comeback. When this happens you got to keep pushing through, but don't let it get to you. You might never become better than that person but you will get really good and learn some nice comebacks.
Tips
- If you are too funny and not clever or truthful you risk coming off as a silly person. Unless you only come off as a silly person then try to be more funny. If you do it right people might start telling you you're cocky.
- One way to defuse a person who took your comeback the wrong way is to tell them you are joking and didn't mean what you said. Then make fun of yourself for being insensitive.
Warnings
- If you make really bad comebacks long enough people will make fun of your comebacks and you might be seen as the guy who makes really bad comebacks. It's not a pretty thing.
- Being an idiot can get you in a fight.
- Don't make fun of drunk people as it's too easy, and they are more likely to get angry or take it the wrong way.
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