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Wit can be called a special and rare gift, but one should not think that only a select few have access to it. In fact, this ability, like many other abilities, can be developed quite well, and this is done without much effort, although, of course, with a certain amount of perseverance and purposefulness.
Wit is the “muscle” of a sense of humor, and if it is poorly developed, it’s too early to talk about yourself as a joker, humorist, and even more so a comedian. Being witty means being able to break patterns, play with associations, observe people and what is happening and see the comic in it, change the perspective of situations. In addition, a witty person almost always has a quick, almost instantaneous reaction, because the joke that is said to the right place and on time is good. If there is no such reaction, even the funniest jokes lose their strength and sharpness.
In addition, wit makes a person more interesting to other people, turns him into the soul of the company and a magnet for others, makes him more attractive to the opposite sex. So the development of wit carries a lot of positive aspects regarding humor and not only. And the fourth lesson of our course is devoted to this topic.
These recommendations should become constant companions of your behavior in everyday life. If you always adhere to them, you yourself will not notice how your mind has become sharper, and your attitude to everything that happens to you and around you has changed so that it allows you to stay in good shape, joke and perceive life with ease and positive.
Humor and wit only at first glance seem spontaneous. But if we consider them more closely, then, as already noted, it turns out that there are special mechanisms that cause people to smile and laugh. Therefore, further we want to introduce you to a few simple tricks with which you can make anyone laugh and be known as that other joker. They, of course, cannot be called new, but this is precisely their effectiveness, because professional comedians and comedians have been using them for many years.
We bring to your attention five cool humorous tricks.
The technique of comic exaggeration is one of the simplest and most common in humor. At one time, the American comedian Bill Cosby noticed that in mathematics 1 + 1 is always equal to 2, but in humor 1 + 1 is 11. People themselves often lie, and this seems ridiculous. So why not try to lie in absurd proportions?
EXAMPLE:
- How long have you been waiting for me?
- Yeah, since the Neolithic era
EXAMPLE:
- The movies were so scary that even my cat turned gray!
EXAMPLE:
- The hangover was so strong that even the traffic cops knowingly let my car go ahead
People tend to use the same words and expressions in their speech, which is why even funny phraseological units have already become covered with dust and no longer seem comical. To fix this, it is enough to update them a little by inserting unexpected words instead of bored ones. Interestingly, the more appropriate the new word is, the funnier the joke will seem.
EXAMPLE: Glue fins - glue flip flops
EXAMPLE: Stick and carrot - hammer and cookie
EXAMPLE: Sunstroke - sun kick
Changing the places of words and letters can be done automatically with a little practice. You can swap letters in words and phrases, you can swap words in sentences. The main trick here is surprise and speed - the sooner the replacement is done, the funnier the result. You should not pay attention to the semantic load of what happens, because the main thing in this case is not the essence, but the call of positive emotions.
EXAMPLE: Deputy - pedudat
EXAMPLE: Sweaty hands - mouth farts
EXAMPLE: Battleship Potemkin - armored scumbag
EXAMPLE:
- Warm up the kettle and wash the dishes
- Good! Wash the kettle and warm the dishes!
When people say something, you can simply pay attention to the direct meaning of their words, discarding the circumstances and context. Listen to everyday speech and focus on one detail, even if it seems unimportant. The simplest thing in the words of others can be a great occasion for a cool and witty joke.
EXAMPLE:
- I got up today like a cucumber!
- What, turned green and covered with pimples?
EXAMPLE:
- Support me!
- Are you falling?
EXAMPLE:
- You completely lost your conscience! What is it called anyway?
- Listen, I've never heard such a riddle before.
EXAMPLE:
- Yes, you have a complete madhouse here!
- Exactly! I am the head physician. What are you with us?
You can make cool jokes by simply turning speech patterns upside down, for example, proverbs, some quotes, sayings, etc. The method is not very simple, because for its application it is necessary to strain the imagination. At the beginning of a joke, you need to take some kind of template, push off from it and unexpectedly end the statement.
EXAMPLE:
- I vouch for my head - why do I need it?
EXAMPLE:
- I am ready to give my right hand .... to learn how to write with my left!
EXAMPLE:
- For lovely ladies! I'll pick up the day after tomorrow
EXAMPLE:
- If you like to ride downhill - love to repair sleds!
Use these techniques as often as possible - in communication with colleagues, family, friends and even strangers. Over time, the habit of “witting” will be firmly rooted in your mind, and you will be able to invent all sorts of jokes and jokes in the blink of an eye, causing others to laugh or just a kind smile. And to make your thinking more malleable and flexible, take note of a few exercises to train creativity and wit.
The construction of jokes, even the most ridiculous, ridiculous and witty, should be approached with all seriousness. And special exercises can provide good support in this. There are eight in total.
Linguistic pyramids are the connections of individual words with their classes and subspecies. For example, you look around you and see an ordinary pen. Separately, it does not represent anything special, but it can be attributed to a higher class - writing instruments. Thinking about it, we understand that a pen can be plastic, metal, with several rods, ballpoint, gel, etc. In other words, we have divided the pen into varieties.
This can be called the initial model of the linguistic pyramid, i.e. almost every object is a subspecies of something, and can have varieties. Among other things, within the same class, there may be similar objects. In the case of a pen, these are pencils, felt-tip pens, markers and other writing utensils. The first exercise is based on this idea.
Purpose: to determine the features of one's thinking, to develop the skills of generalization, separation and transition by analogy.
Fulfillment: find a helper for yourself. Let the assistant name some object on which his eyes fell. Your task is to show what can be done with this subject, find an analogy for it, generalize it to a large group, or divide it into subspecies. It is best to complete the task in silence, for which you should use sign language: thumb up - generalize, thumb down - dissociate, thumb points to the side - give an analogy. With one object, the exercise is performed for at least 5 minutes. After that, you can switch roles with the assistant.
Purpose: development of associativity and ease in speech.
Fulfillment: find a helper for yourself. Let him point to some object in his field of vision, and you must provide as much information as possible about this subject within 5 minutes. This may be its history, purpose, functions, application features, etc. To bring some humor into your story, tell the assistant about why humanity cannot do without the subject under discussion.
The third exercise comes from the well-known riddle of the British writer and philosopher Lewis Carroll, which sounds like this: “How is a raven like a table?”. The author, unfortunately, did not provide an answer to the riddle, but even today, inquisitive minds and fans of his work give more and more new answers.
Purpose: to develop the skill of creating unusual analogies.
Fulfillment: Find two helpers for yourself. The first names some living creature, for example, the same crow, the second names an inanimate object - in our case, this is a table, and the third must explain what these objects have in common. For example, a black raven, like a table, folds its wings at the raven, and drawers at the table, the raven screams, and the table may seem to creak, etc. After discussing the first subject, you can switch roles. In just one approach, you need to discuss at least 3 objects per person.
There is also a complicated version: the first participant voices a state or emotion, the second - an inanimate object, and the third names their common features. After a dozen other repetitions of this exercise, you can easily create funny analogies and compare anything.
Purpose: to develop the ability to communicate on any topic.
Fulfillment: gather a small company of friends - six people. One plays the role of leader. At the sign of the host, the first player begins a monologue on a free topic. Then the host gives a new sign, after which the second player continues the story. This is how all participants should speak. One round of such a game lasts 5 minutes, after which a new leader is selected.
Purpose: to develop the skill of conducting a conversation on any topic and from any place.
Execution: Stand in front of a mirror. Take 5 seconds to look at yourself and pay attention to your thoughts. Then start saying out loud whatever you think for 10 minutes. To complicate the task, accompany your speech with jokes, funny remarks, comparisons. Perform the exercise 3 times a week, and after 1-2 months you will be able to maintain any conversation and skillfully wit.
Purpose: development of a creative view of things and the ability to consider what is happening from different angles. Thanks to this, you will learn to talk about banal things in an unusual way.
Fulfillment: find a helper for yourself. Let the assistant call you one noun, and you select five adjectives for it that are suitable in sound, but do not fit with it in meaning. Adjectives should endow the noun with new properties and characteristics, for example: a boring soup, a pale glass, a cheerful hat, a red mood, quick pills, a screaming sofa, etc. Exercise should be performed daily at least 20 times a day.
Purpose: development of abstract, creative and extraordinary thinking.
Fulfillment: Find one helper for yourself. Let him tell you in detail about some of his problem or difficult situation. Your task is to offer possible options for the development of events and solutions to the problem. But the trick is this: for the first stage of the exercise, it is enough to select non-existent objects or creatures to solve the problem of your assistant. At the second stage, you need to figure out how the chosen object or creature solves the problem in a physically impossible way. And, finally, at the third stage, it is necessary to supplement the actions performed with words in a non-existent language, but so that they obey all the laws of the language (remember Lewis Carroll's poem "Jarmaglot" from the story-tale "Alice Through the Looking-Glass", where there are lines: poked around the nave, and the zelyuks grunted like mumsiki in the movie "- you should get something like that).
The eighth exercise can be called the result of all the previous ones.
Purpose: training the skill of generating unusual thoughts of the “highest grade”.
Fulfillment: imagine that you are in your own alternative reality, similar to the usual one with one exception: everything in it is created not from molecules and atoms, but from other elements, for example, from hamsters. Everything that is around consists of a variety of hamsters of various sizes and their derivatives, obtained at hamster processing plants, hamster production plants, hamster smelters, etc.
Now you need an assistant - a psychiatrist. Joke J
Now you need a partner. You have to blindfold him, and then lead him around the room, bringing his hand to any object and explaining exactly how it consists of hamsters. After 10 minutes, switch roles.
Naturally, hamsters are just an example. Similarly, an alternate reality might be pasta, foil, cones, raccoons, a tomato, and so on. The task is to learn how to logically connect your feelings, fantasies and thoughts. The exercise can be repeated an infinite number of times.
On this hamster note, we conclude the fourth lesson, but in the end, a few more tips for developing wit:
By the way, about literature: in addition to everything said above, we offer you a few books and articles recommended by the famous Russian TV presenter, showman and wit - Ivan Urgant:
And, of course, along with the ability to joke, it is very important to be able to bypass the so-called taboo topics - topics that are not customary to joke about for one reason or another. And in the fifth lesson we will talk about just that, so that your sense of humor does not play a cruel joke with you.
If you want to test your knowledge on the topic of this lesson, you can take a short test consisting of several questions. Only 1 option can be correct for each question. After you select one of the options, the system automatically moves on to the next question. The points you receive are affected by the correctness of your answers and the time spent on passing. Please note that the questions are different each time, and the options are shuffled.
The desire to show one's originality and sophistication of thoughts is not always welcome in society. Sometimes such people are called smart people who are not worthy of respect. We offer to figure out when wit is appropriate and how to become a witty person.
Many dictionaries say that wit is a kind of sophistication of thoughts, ingenuity, the ability to find successful and very bright, colorful or funny expressions, successful decisions and actions. A person with such a trait, in addition to the ability to be witty, must have one more quality - to be able to critically evaluate their own witticisms immediately after creation. If a person is not able to stop his unsuccessful joke in time, then he is unlikely to fall into the category of those who are commonly called witty.
It is customary to distinguish between such methods of wit:
If a person is witty - is it bad or good? Is it possible to say that wit is -? The answer is unequivocal - being witty is commendable, but being smart is bad. Wit must be used when it is needed. Such a skill is not only a good quality, but also an indicator of originality, originality of thinking. Such a person certainly knows how to navigate in different situations and at the same time understands the surrounding reality. Wit is often understood as the ability to think perfectly and, literally, to grasp the most important thing on the fly.
For the average person, humor and wit are one and the same concept. However, it is no coincidence that they are designated by different terms. Wit is understood as ingenuity and finding bright and very funny expressions, and a sense of humor is the ability not only to see, but also to understand the funny. As paradoxical as it sounds, a witty person may not have a sense of humor, and a person with a sense of humor may be completely unwitty. Wit is often associated with the ability to create witty jokes, but with the ability to understand humor.
For everyone who is wondering how to develop wit in speech, we offer valuable advice:
Simple and very interesting exercises will help you learn how to become witty:
To learn how to witty express your own thoughts, it is important to read special literature. These books are great helpers:
Anyone who believes that wit as an aesthetic principle should have a place in every society will like this selection of films:
Wit is the ability to aptly use words and extinguish any negativity with them. Wit can be called the “muscle” of a sense of humor, which means that if you don’t pump it up, no one will talk about you as a good joker or comedian. I want you to know how to develop wit, so I picked up useful tips and exercises for you to train this “muscle”.
To develop mental sharpness, you will have to put in a lot of effort, but I am sure that you will succeed. My helpful tips will be a good helper:
Remember that there is a time for every joke, so it’s not enough to learn how to write jokes, make jokes and humor, it’s important to learn how to do it at the right time. As an exercise, I recommend that you play association and apply basic wit skills from scratch.
Wit is the muscle of humor
Of course, jokes should not flow from you in a stream, because you are not a clown! Remember the saying: "Rarely, but aptly." This is exactly what you should do when inserting some sharp phrase into a conversation. I conduct special trainings on the development of a sense of humor and wit, and I can say with confidence that any skill can be developed. You can read more about studying at the Comedy School of humor in the section.
If you want to become a truly witty person, learn to look at the world around you a little differently. You will have to break patterns, stereotypes, play associations and even, possibly, attend my trainings and webinars. The goal is to learn to observe people, play with any situation, quickly find the right word, translate everything said or happening into a joke.
Generate ideas and develop wit from scratch
I also picked up for you the TOP 5 cool humorous tricks that develop wit:
So that you can use these techniques to develop wit, I will give a few examples of each of them.
SHIFTERS
Proverbs and sayings are the best tool for developing wit, because you can swap phrases or come up with their own endings.
Repetition is the mother of learning. Stuttering is an exception.
And the sheep are safe, and the wolves are full ... And the shepherd will have eternal memory.
What a sober man has in mind, a drunk man has in practice.
One head is good, but two is a genetic deviation.
DIRECT MEANING
In Russian, we often use words and expressions with double meanings. Your task is that you discard the circumstances and take the phrase literally.
The wife says to her husband: "Support me." The husband replies: “What are you falling for?”
Take an aspirin and you'll be as fresh as a cucumber in the morning.
- What is green and in a pimple?
WE CONFUSE WORDS AND LETTERS
Changing letters in words or words in sentences is a good exercise for developing wit and a sense of humor. You can bring this skill to automatism so that jokes will be in your everyday speech.
Example 1. Snow Maiden - Firearm.
Example 2. Shop - Gamazin.
Example 3. Girlfriend - Podlyuga.
Example 4. Labor feeds a person, but laziness spoils - Laziness feeds a person, but labor spoils.
Example 5. Coffee with milk - Mofe with Colac.
Believe me, there are a lot of witty phrases in your head
NEW MEANINGS OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS
Kazan orphan – Russian orphan
Glue Fins - Glue Uggs
Knut and gingerbread - Hammer and bagel
Stone in the bosom - Bucks in the bosom
The cow licked with her tongue - The neighbor licked with her tongue.
HYPERBOLIZATION
This technique involves a strong exaggeration or understatement of what is happening. A witty person quickly finds what to answer, exaggerating or downplaying the truth.
I was so frightened by this noise that even my neighbors turned gray.
She weighs so much that her husband had to switch to proper nutrition.
That day he got so drunk that even the neighbors had a headache.
I hope you understand what are the basic techniques for developing wit. Now, as an exercise, try to remake well-known phraseological units, proverbs and sayings. You can find them in books or on the site fraze.ru. If you find it difficult to exercise on your own, sign up for a webinar with me and we will develop wit and a sense of humor together.
I took several courses on developing a sense of humor and wit with American teachers and realized that people do not laugh spontaneously. It's all about the special laughter triggers that are activated when the joke is written and told correctly. All the basic techniques that I described above are used by famous comedians, and you are laughing. So why not learn to wit yourself?
Every muscle gets bigger and stronger with regular exercise. I suggest you practice a little to develop your own wit. Only 7 exercises will help you become a wittier person.
Exercise 1. We find analogies.
This exercise is based on the Linguistic Pyramids, which help to train the skills of generalization, separation and analogy. What are Linguistic Pyramids? This is what you build yourself, based on what you see around.
So let's look around. The first thing I saw was the plate. By itself, a plate is just a plate, but if you think about it a little, it refers to dishes. Here we already have the base of the pyramid and the first branch from it. Now find some other subspecies for the plate. In the photo you can see examples of the branching of the linguistic pyramid.
The photo shows an example of the development of wit with the help of a linguistic pyramid
Now do this exercise to develop wit. To do this, invite a friend and decide who will be the leader and who will be the follower. After that, the follower must point to some object, and the leader will show what can be done with it. Remember that you need to generalize the subject to a higher level or to a lower level. Complete the task within 5 minutes with one object, you can only use gestures, which are better to agree on in advance.
Exercise 2. Learn as much as possible about the subject.
This exercise is great for developing wit and creativity in speech, as you will need to use your imagination and creativity. Look around and find some object again. After that, set a timer for 5 minutes and tell everything you know about this subject, even if it seems to you that you are talking nonsense.
What can be said?
In general, it can be anything, the main thing is that you have something to say within 5 minutes.
Exercise 3. An interesting story.
And now you have to turn into a storyteller of fascinating stories. To do this, you will have to assemble a company of 4-5 people. Try experimenting on your family members first, and then move on to your friends. Say you want to develop wit so you need to practice.
Your viewers must set a topic for conversation, and your task is to say something on this topic for 5 minutes. Even if you do not understand the topic, then it will be even easier to use humor. If you don't have viewers yet, I'll give you a topic:
I think that your stories should be interesting, and you will be able to write your first joke.
Exercise 4. Comparing something to something.
If you learn how to create unusual analogies, you can develop your wit much faster. For a successful exercise, you need helpers. Ask one person to name an animal, the second - an inanimate object, and try to find something in common between the animal and this object.
This analogy search method is based on the riddle of the famous writer L. Carroll, to which no one has found an answer so far. You can use it for this witty exercise: How is a raven like a table?
Try to make this exercise a little more difficult, but speed up the development of wit. Find something in common not only between animals and objects, but also between emotions and objects, situations and animals.
Exercise 5. Creativity in speech.
Now match adjectives to nouns. Let me remind you that the adjective answers the questions: “What, what, what, what?”. That is, you select words that describe the characteristics of objects.
For example, let's take the noun "bed" and pick up 5 adjectives that we usually do not use for this word in our speech.
So we endowed the bed with new characteristics. To develop wit, you need to do this exercise at least 10 times a day, and after a week you will notice that you begin to think creatively and speak with jokes.
Exercise 6. We fantasize.
A witty person quickly finds a way out of any situation and does not focus on problems. You must learn this too! Ask a friend/wife/employee/husband to tell you about a problem. Your task is to help find a solution to this problem, but in a rather unusual way.
Develop wit with fictional characters or objects
Your speech must be creative, so come up with some kind of helper who can solve this problem. Of course, it must be a non-existent character! After that, come up with the actions of this character. Try to fantasize as much as possible! Forget reality and use your imagination. It is best to record the course of actions of this character. Now read this story, BUT... In an unknown language. Yes, confuse the letters, distort the words as much as you can. It will turn out quite funny and incomprehensible, but this is how you use new mechanisms in your brain and learn to think witty and creatively.
Exercise 7. Journey into unreality.
To develop wit, you will need another exercise, which is also best done with a partner. It's a bit like a game, so you can practice on your kids or other family members. So, blindfold your partner and take him to the room. Explain that the real world is made of atoms and molecules, but you are going to the unreal world, so everything here is made of socks. Yes, from socks, or hats, or rats, or seals, or balloons, in general, from whatever you want.
To complete this exercise, explain to your partner in detail how an object is made of socks or something else. That is, you bring a blindfolded person to the TV and say: “This is a TV and it consists of socks. The screen is made using modern technologies, so the engineers used nylon socks, but the body is made of knitted grandmother's socks.
All these exercises help to develop wit, but it takes a lot of effort to complete them. If you doubt your abilities, then I suggest that you undergo special training at the Comedy School. Agree, because it is important not only to learn to be witty, but also to be able not to catch a person’s feelings. You don't want to cause anger and tears instead of laughter.
Want to generate ideas on the go, make jokes and remember more? Then you should read books for the development of wit and brain training.
The main mistake of thinking of many people is that they believe that such abilities as wit, sense of humor, imagination, creativity of speech are given from birth. These books will help you understand how the brain works and discover your talents.
Keep a notepad of jokes to develop wit
Wit test:
What is X equal to?
Write the answer in the comments, but do not forget that after reading this article you have passed the lesson on the development of wit, not mathematical abilities.
Wit is the ability to find successful expressions and add a little humor to them. Every person needs to develop this quality, because today more and more people suffer from depression, feel oppressed and notorious. A witty person will find a way out of any situation, and will always find something to say to the offender and how to turn his own flaw into a joke. Sign up for my next webinar, where we will discuss how to develop wit and.
Wit is not such a common quality in people. If expressed in a dictionary language, then this term refers to the sophistication of thought and ingenuity, manifested in original, funny and successful expressions. But this is an overly general definition.
Surely each of us has a friend who is distinguished by this quality. Such people, as a rule, look confident, relaxed and satisfied with life. Their eyes are burning, and if you look closely at their eyes, you can, figuratively speaking, notice a thought. It would seem, what does the appearance and quality have to do with psychology and sociology? And despite the fact that a person is always reflected in how he looks.
Wit is such a quality that always leaves its “imprint” on a person, which is not surprising. After all, wit is a storehouse of the mind, expressed in a vivid verbal form. This quality gives a person the ability to repay almost all conflicts with the help of a well-aimed phrase. The wit of a person demonstrates her mind, education and skillful command of speech.
A person with this quality is able to express any thought in such a way that everyone will understand its meaning. Thanks to this, he is always confident in his abilities and strengths. And a person with this quality has every chance of being heard. So can wit be considered a lifestyle? Definitely.
In 1905, the famous Austrian psychoanalyst published a very interesting work. It is known under the title "Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious". If you familiarize yourself with this work, you can understand that Sigmund Freud identifies humor with this concept. That is, the intellectual ability to single out funny and ironic aspects in certain phenomena.
Freud assumed that humor (just like dreams) is connected with the human unconscious. The psychoanalyst assured that a joke is born at the moment when a person tries to express an idea that is considered unacceptable or forbidden in society. But what is called the Super-I - responsible for religious and moral attitudes, allows the human Ego to express this or that thought in a humorous form.
"Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious" is a voluminous work. It describes interesting thoughts, and it is useful for everyone to familiarize themselves with this work. But in short, according to Freud, wit is a psychic sublimation. That is, thanks to which the internal tension finds a way out.
Wit is a quality that is very difficult to develop. This opinion is shared by many people. There is a special predisposition to it. Perhaps a gift. The word "charisma" is quite suitable. After all, these are, in fact, not only some external features that make the appearance of a person more interesting. Charisma is also the exclusivity of the individual in intellectual terms. But still, many people are interested in how to develop wit. Well, it's all real.
First, you need to become ironic in relation to yourself. If you constantly make fun of the rest, then you can pass for not a witty personality, but a malicious wit. But a person who knows how to ironically “pin up” himself causes disposition. Such people seem straightforward, friendly and open.
Secondly, jokes must be subtle. In the company of close friends, of course, humor from the category "below the plinth" is acceptable. However, in society one must be able to express themselves beautifully, but funny.
Thirdly, you need to be less serious. Few people like people who even on vacation look tense. You have to learn to feel the humor of others and try to be one yourself.
That's not all, regarding the question of how to develop wit. However, the most important thing needs to be told separately. In mind, of course, is the vocabulary.
You can (and should) replenish it in a variety of ways. Books, films, educational programs, interesting people - there are countless unique sources of information around us. We can adopt words, phrases, mannerisms, and even lifestyles that we like. People who are puzzled by the question of how to learn wit, need to learn this.
A person's vocabulary is like a complete set in a car: the wider it is, the better. The person will begin to feel more confident. And in any company and stratum of society, he will be like a fish in water if he knows different styles of speech, manners of presentation and behavior. This shows versatility.
This is another feature that distinguishes a witty personality. After all, in fact, what are the boundaries and limits? This is what adjusts everything to the standards, which are too many in the modern world. What are the standards? It is boredom, lack of originality, uniqueness.
Witty people see the world differently. They study our reality in all its diversity, taking into account every little thing, and remembering the most interesting, unusual, which they then apply in life. Examples of wit in this manifestation are numerous. In the course of this or that thematic conversation, when it is necessary to give an answer, a person can make an expressive pause and ask, has his opponent heard about a certain phenomenon? Then turn to him, tell him why he remembered this, demonstrate the connection, make arguments. Wit is not only a sense of humor. It is also the ability to have an interesting conversation.
Much has been said above about the wit of the unconscious and about the ability to use this gift. Well, it is worth citing a few striking phrases demonstrating it as an example.
In the first half of the 20th century, such a famous American actor as Oscar Levant lived and acted. He owns the following phrase: “I decided to take care of myself. I quit smoking and drinking, went on a diet, refused heavy food. And in two weeks I lost 14 days.” It is difficult to argue with the originality of this saying. Levant was a witty and charismatic personality, and it is safe to say that he became an actor and comedian in large part due to this quality.
Yuri Nikulin also owns a lot of interesting expressions. They, like the previous example, are not meaningless. Here is perhaps the best of what he said: “Never take revenge on vile people. Just be happy. And they won't survive it."
This is the last rule to follow if you want to be witty. Absurdity is sometimes very appropriate. The famous American writer Mark Twain thought so too. He owns a phrase that to this day makes even those who heard it smile. And it sounds like this: “Quitting smoking is easy. I quit 50 times." In this case, the absurdity is derived through exaggeration. You can also use understatement. In Gogol's "Dead Souls", by the way, such examples are also often found.
