Smile. Don’t Laugh. When Chatting With A Woman

Smile. Don’t Laugh.

If you laugh at your own joke, you may spoil the punch line.
You can smile, but don’t laugh.
This is common sense, but it’s sometimes hard to follow. That’s why
comedians sometimes practice telling their jokes so many times until
they get bored and won’t laugh at the punch line.
Here’s how you can practice. Pick a good joke. Stand in front of the
mirror and tell the joke to yourself with some acting. Do it until you
won’t feel the urge to laugh at the punch line. This will get you used to
telling a joke while looking at someone. There’s a big difference
between reading a joke and performing one. Observing your own
performance will improve your body language.
If you feel like losing control when you’re telling the joke, try not to
stifle your laughter. Instead, casually pick a filler (for example, “well,
that’s how everything happened so far…and…um…”) and think about
something else not funny at all (for example, “what’s the color of the
wall? Who invented the telephone? What day is it tomorrow?”).
Just concentrating for a split second on something that is utterly
unrelated to the joke will help you continue the delivery of it.