Thanks to everybody who has replied so far. I hope this next post will shed some more light on the subject of humor. It's quite a monster, but you have my personal guarantee it will be worth the read. Onward!
Applying Humor in Real Life Situations
Now that we've established the six main types of humor, lets look at how to apply them in social situations for maximum effect. High-brow humor is generally not very useful in social situations for two reasons: 1) it requires your audience to have a somewhat advanced intellectual understanding of the subject to comprehend the joke, and 2) it generally does not evoke a hysterical response, which is really the most useful in terms of seduction. It can, however, be used in a social circle where everyone knows the general habits and typical behavior of everyone else. For example, if your friend Gary is known for hooking up with fat girls, and your friend Tom brings home a larger than average woman, you might say something like, "When I heard that stampede of elephants come through the house at 2 AM I expected to look outside and see Gary riding her in!" Even though this is a low-brow topic, it is still high-brow humor because it involves an esoteric knowledge of the subject matter (Gary and Tom's sex lives). Bonus points for the figurative language used to describe the arrival of the unfortunately overweight young lady.
Low-brow humor is almost universally understood and generally gets the kind of response most useful for seduction--hysterical laughter. The problem is that low-brow topics that are usually considered funny (people falling, farting in awkward situations, making fun of old people) are also usually things that will lower your "value" in the group or make you uncomfortable were you to be the subject of the joke. For these reasons, there are two seduction-oriented, non-self-deprecating ways to apply low-brow humor to social situations: stories and pointing out other peoples' gaffes. Telling the story about the snowboarding trip you went on where your friend was screaming down the mountain and smashed his face into a metal rail and pointing out the drunkard who just slipped and smashed his face on a table in the corner of the bar are both examples of successfully including low-brow humor in a conversation without lowering your own value.
As its name implies, imaginative humor relies heavily on the use of one's imagination to create a funny exaggeration of reality. In my last post I used an example of an older gentleman sitting at the bar who looked like he'd seen too many happy hours to illustrate my point. I imagined a funny scenario that emphasized and played off of what limited knowledge I had based in his appearance. The hypothetical bar-goer I described probably doesn't go home, put on women's clothing and pretend to be talking to his mother; however, since his appearance lends itself to believing that his existence is a sad one, I took that and stretched it to the furthest extreme of sad. This is the essence of the imaginative comic, and when done properly it is one of the most effective ways to get a group of people rolling--and as an added bonus, it can easily create the classic "us vs. them" scenario we all love so much.
Bad drivers, people who pay with checks, guys who walk too slow because they think they're pimps--the world is full of annoying little things that can drive you crazy if you let them. Most people are only bothered by these things at a nearly unconscious level, which makes it that much more funny when you bring them up in conversation in a comical fashion. The key to pulling off this type of comedy is that you have to over-emphasize your own anger at the minor inconveniences of life. The famous political comedian Louis Black wouldn't be able to entertain a dive-bar comedy club if he simply got on stage and read headlines of politicians doing dumb things. The reason he became so successful is because he is passionately furious, cussing and screaming at the top of his lungs about the things that infuriate him. This is where the true power of the angry comic lies--if you're truly angry about something, you will speak about it with enthusiasm, which displays passion, which is always sexy no matter what it's directed at. See how this works?
Next we come to the eternally hilarious art of the parody, where one exaggerates the most ridiculous aspects of something to the most extreme possible level while constantly referrencing back to the original subject matter. There are really two subcategories of parody, direct and indirect. Since the structure of a direct parody relies both on the audience being familiar with the original subject matter (making it somewhat high-brow) and the delivery to be in the same medium (movies parody movies, songs parody songs, etc.), it is unfortunately not very useful for seduction purposes. You can always resort to quoting a direct parody in conversation, but it's really hit or miss and can actually drain value from the interaction (seriously, how many times did somebody have to say "I'M RICK JAMES, BITCH" before you felt like knocking their ass out?). Indirect parody, on the other hand, can be very useful in social situations where you notice that a person has a particularly unusual habit. Once you notice this, the key is to imitate and exaggerate. I once knew a guy who said "Know what I mean?" after almost every sentence, so to parody him I would say something like "Know what I mean, I went to the, know what I mean, store the other day and bought some, know what I mean, groceries, know what I mean?" By over-using the unusual habit I noticed in him and imitating it in an extreme nature, I made my friends laugh for many hours.
Finally, we have the innuendo, one of the most powerful tools in attraction-related comedy. Innuendo can be used in a lot of ways, the most obvious being to introduce a sexual frame to the conversation in a non-lecherous way. This is especially useful for guys who don't have enough in-field experience to properly calibrate to the comfort/compliance level of the woman. Rather than jumping into an overly forward or unnecessarily pushy conversational context, simply relate something non-sexual to a sexual topic in a light-hearted way. This has the added bonus of demonstrating comfort with sexual topics on your part ... and if you're comfortable with sexual topics, that must mean you're comfortable with sex ... which must mean you have some on a semi-consistent basis ... right? Most important of all, this gives the girl permission to be comfortable with it too, which is really what all this is about, isn't it?
To be continued ...
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