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Insiders' Guide social life
By Caroline Rhea Rhea has been a comedian for 15 years and will appear in the upcoming film Christmas with the Kranks. Whether you're working a cocktail party or a comedy club, certain tactics will ensure that your stabs at humor aren't met with blank stares. First, you must have complete confidence in the joke you're telling. It will come across in your delivery, and even if the material's subpar, people will laugh. Or at the very least, smile and nod. * Choose wisely. It's best to stick with a universal theme -- for example, we all have mothers. I talk to mine every day, but she still ends every conversation with, "Keep in touch." Self-deprecating humor can get laughs, but avoid it at a work function; political humor can also get sticky. And although every person I've sat next to on a plane has done it to me, I wouldn't recommend telling an overtly sexual joke to a stranger. And never, ever tell an ethnic joke. * Be prepared. Always run the setup and the punch line through your head before ...