How to Make Women Laugh

Laughter is the very breath of life when it comes to women and dating. Relationship experts consistently point out that a sense of humor ranks with money, power, physical attractiveness and fame as among the top five coveted qualities in men. Some tips on how to make women laugh and have them look forward to your company again.

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Look for humor around you

On your date, say you have just arrived at a music concert or a bowling alley; instead of launching headlong into rehearsed jokes – which might sound too artificial and thus desperate – try looking around you for anything that seems interesting. Maybe the abstract painting on display reminds you of your five year old nephew’s color-mixing palette or the stud smoking a cigar at the bar calls to mind a funny anecdote from college. Looking for humor in small incidents and from your surroundings will not only help you avoid a contrived kind of humor but make the entire experience light-hearted and fun for both you and your date.

Use a bit of self-deprecating humor

It is so common to come across inflated male egos that a guy who doesn’t mind laughing a bit at himself makes for a refreshing and, from the woman’s point of view, a hugely attractive change. Few men try to make women laugh. Imagine a date who is so full of his own achievements and possessions that he cannot look beyond his egoistic self. Such a person will not only be utterly boring but even likely to put women off by his incurable megalomania. On the other hand, a guy who can put forth his minor personality flaws in a funny way or even look at past failings with a twinkle in the eye will seem more charming to women. Above all, a sense of self-deprecating humor is a sign of a man who is confident and mature enough to be able to laugh at himself and does not need to hide behind a massive ego to feel good.

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Don’t whine at a date

Remember that a woman agrees to a date for the same reason a guy does – to have fun. So leave all your money problems and workplace woes behind once you go out with a woman. A date is not the occasion to whine about how mean your co-workers are or how badly you have been treated by your exes in the past. At the same time stay away from depressing topics like poverty in third world countries and the inexorable destruction of the rainforests. Granted that you like your partners to have a brain in their pretty little heads but if you get too serious on a date and constantly harp on negative emotions then you stand little chance of seeing your date again. Rather do your best to keep the conversation light and casual even if you are not in the mood for generating laughs. Make women laugh and you're almost guaranteed second dates.

Pun your way through

Puns are one of the easiest ways to lighten a conversation and make your companion smile. Say you are at a restaurant and have been watching a waiter struggle with packing food in foil for some time. After he fails for the third time, you can say with a straight face, ‘there, foiled again!’ The English language with its plethora of homonyms and words that sound almost similar is particularly ideal for puns and other kinds of humorous play on words and their meanings that will make women laugh.

Display your witty side

If you are keen to make an impression with smart women, you may find that where a list of PhDs will fail, evidence of a rapier-sharp wit may still succeed. Smart, professional women on a date are not looking for a competitor –they come across enough of those in corporate boardrooms. Rather they are looking for a partner who has a healthy sense of humor and a fine intelligence to hang it on. Smooth one-liners and verbal repartees are examples of just the kind of witty humor that are sure to impress and attract smart, intelligent women.

Make space for some exaggeration

If however you are not particularly choosy about the kind of women you want to date, you may find a little bit of exaggeration yielding to a lot of laughs. Say for instance you come across a gleaming silver BMW in a parking lot. Pointing to a hairline mark on it, you could say with a poker face, “What’s with the crack? Can’t they afford a new car?” likewise exaggeration, used in judicious amounts can be hilarious when discussing a movie star or a football team.

Avoid anything offensive

The thing about a sense of humor is that it can make you helpless with laughter but can just as easily become uncomfortable and even offensive. For ages misogynist jokes like the ones to do with the visiting mother-in-law have been standard laughing fare among men. But it would be better to use them among your beer mates rather than on your date. Also with rising interaction between different communities, keep away from jokes that depend on racial, ethnic or religious difference for their laughter quotient. If dating someone from another community for the first time, try to stick to neutral and shared topics of interest like the workplace, hobbies or movie stars until you have a better idea of what interests or amuses her.

Humor as a way of life

Remember you cannot suddenly grow a sense of humor when you want to make a woman laugh, so it makes better sense of adopt it as a way of life. Try finding something to smile about even in the little things of daily life and even when you get caught in an unhappy situation, seek out its lighter side. Bumper to bumper traffic on the freeway can either shoot your blood pressure to dangerous levels or you could use those twenty minutes to call an old friend or hum a much-beloved tune from childhood. Once you are able to cultivate a sense of humor as an integral part of your personality, it will naturally come into play in your relationships and make for a satisfying personal life.