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Interpret the Text Using Close Reading
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• Keep a straight face—Deliver the joke deadpan, or without emotion. That way, any strangeness in the joke will seem even stranger because the person telling it doesn’t seem to notice.
• Don’t laugh at your own joke—Let your audience decide whether it is funny or foolish—or both.
33 Theories and techniques aside, much about humor remains a mystery. According to Hiestand, Carson many times said, “I don’t understand what makes comedy a sure thing. There’s no 100-percent surefire formula.” Meanwhile, for most of us, laughter is never a problem. It does not need to be solved, just enjoyed.
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