Love Systems Insider: How To Be Funny

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Love Systems InsiderDate: February 2009

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How to be funny Recession-buster: Free Stuff from Love Systems

1. How to be funny

Big Businessis a comedian and Love Systems instructor based in New York City. Because of his career,he sometimes keeps a lower profile but you can read about some of his exploits here, here, andhere. He

specializes in quick seductions in day and night-time scenarios.

Women will always tell you that theyre looking for a man with a good sense of humor.

Of course, what women SAY they want isnt usually what they actually respond to in the real world.

You guys probably already know this (if not, get Magic Bullets to understand why), but its worth

repeating anyway.

Sense of humor is one of the big exceptions. Women know they want it, and we know they want it.

Everyone has at least some sense of humor. This article is meant to be simple and practical, with quicktips that anyone can use whether youre advanced or new to get even better. If youre interested in

more depth and theory on this, Ill list some great links at the end.

Heightening

Heightening means raising the value of what you are talking about. For example:

If you are talking about expensive things, you could start with a watch, then heighten to a diamond, then

a Picasso. Each one is more expensive than the last.

If we were making a joke about physical injury, wed start with a splinter, then heighten to a broken leg,

then death. Each one is more damaging than the last.

If we were making a joke about inappropriate things to say on a first date, wed start with You have

lovely breasts then heighten to I usually date men, so this is new, then finally How much for anal?

Each one was progressively worse to say on a first date than the one before it.
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A great time to use heightening is if she says something a bit silly. Lets say she comes up with: My

bike is really cool. It has a bell.

What are we trying to heighten here? Its usually the element that makes the statement silly in the first

place. In this case, its the childish bike attachments. So heighten that.

(Yes, really, take a second before reading on and do that. This is an interactive exercise.)

What Id do here is think of immature things I could put on a bicycle. A baseball card in the spokes? A

pink basket with frills? Training wheels? Or:

Not as cool as my bike. It has a picture of Spiderman on the front.

Another great way to use heightening is with role plays.

For example, lets say you start with something simple like, Youre cool. Youre going to be my new

best friend.

What can we heighten here? You have a couple of choices; Id go with just having met this person and

now were best friends.

Whats even more of a commitment than being best friends? Meeting someones parents? Moving in

together? Getting married? Or:

In a few minutes, if you keep being cool, we can upgrade you to friend with benefits or potential life

mate depending on how you play your cards.

Role plays often lead into situations where you can heighten, and are really valuable as humor building

blocks themselves.

You can practice heightening even when youre not in the middle of a conversation with a beautiful

woman. Just think of categories, and practice quickly coming up with heightening ideas.

Here are a few you can try right now:

-Cars (go from lame to sexy)

-Office Conduct (go from mildly inappropriate to wildly inappropriate)

-Juggling (go from normal difficulty to insane difficulty)

Call Back Humor

Another great technique and one that can be combined with heightening is call back humor.


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At its most basic, call back humor is referencing something that happened earlier. Inside jokes are

callback humor. Comedians who reference a joke they told earlier in their act are using callback humor.

One of the cool things about call back humor is that the thing youre referencing doesnt, in and of itself,

have to be funny.

One of the easiest ways to use call back humor is with nicknames.

The other day I met a woman who told me she was a doctor.

Wow, a doctor! I said

Well, Im still in residency, she replied.

Oh, so youre not actually a doctor yet. Youre a half-doctor.

She laughed, and so anytime I texted or called her I referred to her as half-doctor and it reminded her

of the funny moment we shared together.

(We dont have time to get into this here, but if you are planning on getting a phone number and calling

or texting her later - as opposed to continuing on that night - establishing call back humor for the first call

is crucial. It can literally mean the difference between a phone call that leads to a date and a phone call

that leads to I have to go finish re-organizing my sock drawer.

This is explained in Chapter 20 Phone Game ofMagic Bullets.)

Another great technique is to combine heightening and call back humor together.

Remember the woman who became my new best friend a few paragraphs ago? Using this as call back

humor as well, I could text her with:

Hey new best friend. Ive decided to promote you to friend with benefits. Keep up the good work!

May make a new best-ie before I see you again. Dont get jealous.

You can also combine call backs. E.g.:

Hey new best friend. I told my parents you were a real doctor, so remember to lie when you meet

them.

Call backs are easy to use, but they are also easy to misuse. You dont want to call back too early, and

you definitely dont want to call back the same thing too often. Its easy to look like youre trying too

hard if you go to call back humor as a life raft every time the conversation stalls, especially if its the

same thing you keep calling back to.

Which brings me to the third concept...
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The Rule of Threes

Comedy happens in threes. I dont know why, it just does. A priest, a minister and a rabbi. A Mexican, a

Russian and an American. Three really is the magic number for comedy. If you have ever been accused

of killing a joke, its probably because you tried to heighten it more than three times.

The first time is when the funny thing happen, the second time you establish the pattern and heighten,

then the third time follow the pattern and heighten to the top.

Enjoy!

Learning more fromBig Business:

INTERVIEW ON LOVE SYSTEMS IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Book him for one-on-one training or a phone consultation (email us)

Big Business Blog

Learning more about refining your sense of humor:

INTERVIEW ON HUMOR

INTERVIEW ON ROLE PLAYS

Books and DVDs on humor

User feedback on books and DVDs on humor

2. Recession-buster free stuff from Love Systems

One message we keep hearing over and over is that the economy is in trouble, but you still want to have

access to the best Love Systems material to attract and date beautiful women.

How do you make sure that youre not left behind on all the new Love Systems stuff that everyone is

talking about?

We try to do our part. Have you taken advantage of all of these?

Magic Bullets several chapters are available for free on the Magic Bullets page.
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Love Systems Routines Manual Volume 1 and Volume 2 ditto. Grab the free stuff, its a no-brainer.

Every Love Systems interview(and there are almost 40 now) has the first ten minutes free. Thats about

6.5 free hours of audio. (You can even check outwhich interviews are most popular on The Attraction

Forums.)

The Attraction Forums is completely free. Using the search function on The Attraction Forums, you can

find answers to a ton of questions.

A couple hours of free videos and interviews on the Love Systems YouTube channel. This is something

you should subscribe to (check the link in the top left hand corner of that page).

My blogand other instructors blogs.

The Love Systems Lounge (if youve been a bootcamp) where Love Systems instructors answer

questions and discuss advanced material with former clients.

And, of course, this LSi.

A lot of those sources are updated frequently, so Id bookmark them if theyre interesting to you.

Take care,

Savoy
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