Chris Duffy

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220 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques · 305. The Humor Habit: Why Great Communicators Think Like Comedians · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

It's just like kind of nonsense wordplay and not even a good example of nonsense wordplay.

Um, whereas if you are taking what someone else is saying and you're joking around with them and you're getting them into it.

So, you know, they go, it's so cold outside and you go, oh my gosh, remember the time that you told me about where it was so cold and you had forgotten your coat.

What did you do?

And then they say, and we go, oh, what if we both had to make a, make a coat out of garbage bags?

That would be hilarious if we were doing this.

Then you, you're building something together where there's space and you're creating this world together.

And yeah.

I think that that is something that for me professionally and on stage, it's the difference between like a great comedy show and a terrible comedy show.

I have found this to be a really transformative idea when I think about humor in particular is to think about like, what is the humor that is not making it about you, but that is going to make everyone have a good time.

What is it that's going to make the other person look good?

Because I think this is the biggest misconception that people have about humor is that the successful humor is you being at the center and you being in the spotlight.

And I actually totally disagree.

I mean, sometimes people talk about, you know, being interested versus interesting.

And I think this is an offshoot of that, right?

How do you not try and make it so the other person goes, wow, Chris is a fascinating man, but instead go, wow, we had a conversation and I actually didn't know that I had those thoughts or opinions, but it was really cool to discover them in a conversation together.

What are a few things we can do to be funnier?

My number one piece of advice to people when they say, like, I don't think of myself as a funny person, but I want to be funnier.

is to shift how you think about that and to not necessarily think like it's me telling more jokes.

But I would say try to laugh more in your life.

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