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In order to learn to be funny, you must learn to avoid not being funny. Hence the usefulness of this lesson. Of course, there are many ways of not being funny, but I only want to illustrate a particular one, one that my countrymen at least seem to have mastered thoroughly.

I believe in demonstrating through examples, of course, so here's a joke in excellent health:

Why was the man with six fingers called Hanuman by his friends?
'Twas his name!

So far so good. Now hand over the unsuspecting fellow to one of these aforementioned murderers, and watch how he goes about his job with professional ease. Here's what the remains look like when he is done with it:



Y WS D MAN WTH 6 FNGRS CLD HANUMAN BY HIS FRNDS???????????

scrl dn.............................................
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scrl frthr dn.............................
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ARRE BUDDHU, IT WS HIS NAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D



And Rest In Peace, dear joke.
To put in a real life illustration, check out the fifth post here:
http://learn-to-be-funny.learnhub.com/discussions/8578-hindi-jokes

Here is the post reproduced:

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EK CHUTKULA MERI TARAF SE BHI Chor 1 ghar me chori karne gaya,

Tijori par likha tha

" TIJORI KO TODNE KI JARURAT NAHI,

452 No. LAGAO AUR SAMNE WALA LAAL BUTTON DABAO,

TIJORI KHUL JAYEGI "

Jaise hi button dabaya alarm baja aur police aayi.

Jate waqt chor seth se bola

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"AAJ MERA INSANIYAT SE VISHWAS UTH GAYA "!!!!
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Now I will not embark upon a discussion on the quality of the underlying joke - that certainly does not belong in the present lesson - my point, however, is that irrespective of whether the underlying joke has a humour value or not, we can safely say that in the form it has been presented, it has none.

I hope the illustrations are self-explanatory. Here is the basic guideline: when stating a joke that is in the classical cue-punchline format, it is best to state it as shown below using a beautiful viola joke:

How do you keep your violin from getting stolen? (The cue...)
Keep it in a viola case. (... followed immediately by the punchline.)

That's it. A good joke should require no extra ornamentation to add to its humour value - indeed, such extravagances turn out to have the opposite effect in reality. In order to be a good humorist, you must always keep that in mind.

That's all folks!