How to practice humorous eloquence

All humor is generosity and kindness to others. The protagonist of humor embodies the intention of the humorous user or author, and often does not embarrass ot

All humor is generosity and kindness to others. The protagonist of humor embodies the intention of the humorous user or author, and often does not embarrass others everywhere, but always makes trouble with others, not to mention making trouble. Let me tell you next.

Ways to practice humorous eloquence: First, substitute flowers for trees and steal concepts.

An officer went to the company to inspect, just in time for the soldiers to have lunch.

"How's the food?" The officer asked the soldier.

"Sir, there is too much mud in the soup." A talkative soldier replied.

"You joined the army to defend your country, not to be picky about food!" The officer was very angry and shouted, "Don't you understand this truth?"

"Yes," the soldier stood at attention respectfully and said firmly, "but we can't eat the land!"

Sir, the word land refers to territory, and the soldiers mean mud.

Teacher: "Today, let's review the subtraction we taught yesterday. For example, what if your brother has five apples and you take three from him? "

Child: "As a result, he will definitely beat me up."

The "result" asked by the teacher belongs to the category of mathematics, but the child transfers it to the category of life logic.

When you ask your boss for leave, he answers you like this:

Do you want to take a day off? See what you want from the company.

You can work 365 days a year.

52 weeks a year, you have two days off every week, leaving 26 1 day to work.

You are absent from work every day 16 hours. If you subtract 170 days, 9 1 day remains.

You spend 30 minutes drinking coffee every day, which adds up to 23 days a year, leaving 68 days.

The time you spend on lunch every day is 1 hour, 46 days and 22 days.

Usually you take two sick days a year, so your working hours are only 20 days.

The company has five holidays every year and you only work 15 days.

The company generously gives you 14 days off every year, and you work 1 day. Do you still want to take this day off? !

The boss replaced the working hours for one year.

When using the method of replacing flowers with wood, we must keenly grasp the loopholes in each other's words and change our original intention. Different target words of the concept of stealing will achieve different effects.

Methods of practicing humorous eloquence II. Pun.

The following is a TV advertisement simulating Motorola:

A cool man rides a luxury motorcycle on an endless road with long yellow sand on both sides. Suddenly, the car broke down. What should I do? This cool guy escaped from Motorola's mobile phone and asked for help. After a while, I saw a mule car coming slowly towards the horizon. An old farmer helped liang zi put the motorcycle on the mule cart and walked forward without saying a word. At this time, the voice-over sounded: no matter how good the motorcycle is, it is necessary to pull the mule. Motorola, send messages anytime, anywhere! "

Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions;

Uncle Xing had a drink and said ... The land said, "This wall is not strong." The gods will say, "Look." At first glance, this land is really a good wall. How could there be a crash? Touching his hand, he said,' I thought it was a real wall, but I didn't expect it to be a fake wall! "They listened to, laughing. Jia Qiang couldn't help laughing and said, "Silly uncle! Hello! I didn't scold you. Why did you scold me? Use it to punish a large glass! "

A doctor said that he was busy all afternoon. Everyone asked what it was. He said, "I had an operation. A child, hemorrhoids. " Everyone shouted, "Are you kidding? Does the child have hemorrhoids? ! "My friend solemnly hung up a sentence:" Nothing strange. Hemorrhoids are not old. " A group of colleagues laughed their heads off.

This is a homophonic pun.

The key to the use of pun lies in combining the situation at that time and expressing it with an alluding vocabulary.

Ways to practice humorous eloquence: self-mockery and belittling

Laughing at yourself is making fun of yourself. Self-mockery can show a person's confidence and openness. Herb Tru, an American, put self-mockery at the highest level of humor in his book Humorous Life.

It is safest to laugh at yourself without hurting anyone. Can be used to enliven the atmosphere and eliminate tension; Seek the steps in embarrassment and save face; Get the human touch in public; Under special circumstances, innuendo satirizes unreasonable villains.

1. Make yourself laugh.

In interpersonal communication, when people feel ashamed and embarrassed, using self-mockery to deal with difficulties can not only easily find steps, but also produce humorous effects. Therefore, it is a clever way to laugh at yourself, tickle yourself a few times and laugh first.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Daqian returned to his hometown in Sichuan from Shanghai. Before he left, his friends gave him a farewell dinner and invited Mei Lanfang and others to accompany him. The banquet began, and everyone asked Zhang Daqian to sit first. Zhang said: "Mr. Mei is a gentleman and should sit at the top. I am a villain and should accompany the last seat. " Mei Lanfang and others don't understand its meaning. Zhang Daqian explained: "Isn't there a saying that' a gentleman speaks, a villain does it'?" Teacher Mei sings with lip service, but I paint with my hands. I should let Mr Mei Qing sit down first. "

On one occasion, Chen Yi went to a relative's house for the Mid-Autumn Festival. When you find a good book when you enter the door, you concentrate on reading it and mark it with a brush while reading it. The host urged him to eat several times, but he didn't go, so he brought cake and sugar. While reading and eating, he actually dipped the ink into the inkstone and sent it directly to his mouth. Relatives burst into laughter as soon as they met. He said, "It doesn't matter if you eat some ink. I just feel that there is too little ink in my stomach!

2. It's safest to scold yourself.

When you want to tell a joke, a short story, or a witticism or an anecdote, the safest goal is yourself. If you laugh at yourself, who will be unhappy?

1930 On February 9, Cai Yuanpei's 70th birthday, people from all walks of life in Shanghai hosted a banquet to welcome him at the International Hotel. When thanking him, he said humorously and freely, "When you come to celebrate my birthday, you always ask me to work for another few years. Living to 70 years old, I feel that I have done something wrong in these 69 years. If I want to live a few more years, I just want to do something wrong for a few more years. "

Once, when Treasury Secretary George Humphrey walked into Eisenhower's Oval Office, Eisenhower held his hand and said kindly, "Dear George, I notice that you comb your hair in the same way as me." Hum looked up and it turned out that Eisenhower was as bald as he was.

3. Say that you can also make others blush.

All humor is generosity and kindness to others. The protagonist of humor embodies the intention of the humorous user or author, and often does not embarrass others everywhere, but always makes trouble with others, not to mention making trouble. Generally speaking, when something happens, he always stays out of it Even if he is treated unfairly, or subjected to unbearable injustice, he often won't gnash his teeth in resentment, swear angrily, or even take out a killer weapon to kill each other. However, he is not a loser, and he will respond in his unique tolerant way, perhaps with a little ridicule and, of course, self-mockery. In this way, he often becomes a winner at a higher level.

Obviously, Socrates was somewhat helpless, but his self-deprecating sarcasm got him out of this predicament, which showed Socrates' profound life accomplishment.

Being able to make the other person blush by innuendo is not only an unpleasant solution, but also an admonition. Why not?

The comedian Carol Bernie once sat in a restaurant for lunch. At this moment, an old woman went to her dining table and raised her hand to touch Carol's face. When her fingers passed Carlo's five senses, she said apologetically, "I don't see how beautiful it is."

"Save your blessings!" Carol said. "I don't look good."

Downgrading is to express things to a lower level, similar to self-mockery.