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HOW TO TELL JOKES ABOUT LANGUAGES: English, Singlish, Scottish and more

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First find your joke. That's easy. Can you speak another language? Can you find a stooge, a puppet, an animal, or a member of the audience as a plant? HATS & PROPS & Maps Change hats to show which language you are speaking. Or carry a flag or umbrella. If you are on zoom you can have a picture of an audience laughing, or import your own canned laughter. 1 Look up jokes and tell them about yourself or a prominent member of the audience - with their permission. 2 Find a humorous song. It doesn't matter if you sing flat. Exaggerate your bad singing and this will make it funnier. 3 Find a serious song and write a parody. Not anything which might offend. Note national events and the audience. Eg Happy birthday could be happy funeral. 4 Find humorous poems, limericks and couplets. Make up your own. 5 Prolong the joke. (See President Kennedy and German below under Germany.) American Pick presidents such as Bush. Reagan. Trump. Humorous pe...