Chris Duffy

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

So like find people who make you laugh, be around them, enjoy comedy movies or TV shows or clips, like look at the absurdity in the world.

So like if you can laugh more, I think that will naturally bring funniness into your life.

And then you can share the things that you thought were funny with other people.

But then when you are trying to actually create the humor on your own, not to just appreciate the humor that you found or that you're hearing, there's a couple of really basic ways in which math plays into comedy.

Comedy is much more formulaic in some ways.

There's an art and there's a science, but there is the science, which is the math part.

And so one really basic thing is if you are writing something and you want it to be funny...

say you're giving a toast or something, you, you simply have to have the funniest word in the sentence come last.

And so if you say, for example, let's say, you know, purple is probably a pretty funny color.

So if you're going to say, and the, and the car, when it showed up was purple is much funnier than in the purple car finally showed up because showed up is not the funny part of that sentence.

So you want to end with the funny part.

And that also does the second thing, which is the number one reason why people don't actually get a laugh is because they don't leave space for the laugh.

So if you say it at the end of the sentence, then you remember there's a period afterwards you pause and people will fill that space in with laughter.

Humor is really interesting because laughter is like one of the only things.

contagious social reactions that we have.

The only other real one is a yawn, right?

A yawn and laughs are the only things that we spontaneously generate kind of against without consciously thinking of it when we see other people do them.

So you have to create that space where then someone can laugh and it will make other people laugh.

And then on a more philosophical frame, people often lose an audience by going too quickly.

If you're trying to give an analogy of...

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