How to Retroactively Ruin a Joke

I believe that the best way to act after you’ve told a joke is to act like there was no joke, whether the joke was successful or not. If the joke didn’t work, no amount of explaining the premise or pressing your audience to “lighten up” will save it; and if the joke worked, making a face, laughing at your own wit, or reminding people what a  great joke you just told will only kill whatever laugh and positive feelings you might have created.

This is just an opinion.

The opinion of a man who is sitting here writing about a series of jokes he came up with nearly a decade ago, thus ignoring his own advice.

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