Jokes & Restaurant Etiquette

It's National Tell A Joke day and Dangerous Dave gives tips how to tell a good joke. Plus, a new survey of restaurant etiquette including taking photos of your food.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's deeper in the din with dangerous Day. Well, today
is National Tell a Joke Day. But if you're one
of those people that have a little trouble telling jokes.
I'm good at telling jokes, I'm bad at remembering jokes.
So if you want to tell a joke, here's some
tips to tell about the joke. First of all, relax
if you feel awkward, so do the people in your audience.

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Set up a premise, tell what the joke is about.
Otherwise audiences might not get it and your joke could
fall flat. Timing is crucial when you comes to telling
a joke. A great comedian knows when people are going
to react a bit they want to play it up,
and when to pause. Timing is also important for setting
up punchlines and making the joke come off as natural
rather than rehearsed. Also bring some drama. It might include

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changing your voice to emphasize certain words, or your body
language or hand gestures for certain parts of the joke.
And then tighten things up. Every word with a great
joke matters, either it's to the story or to the rhythm.
It should be a tight and condensed no extra words
or information. Otherwise your audience might get bored. I'd tell
you more, but this bit really isn't that funny. Deeper

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in that there's a new poll on restaurant etiquette, and
eighty percent of people said your smartphone should be out
of sight when you're on a date. Fifty four percent
said no one should see it during the family gathering,
in fifty percent said you should not have it out
with friends. Few exceptions. Eighty one percent says it's appropriate
to whip out your phone to get a photo of
the person you're eating with. Sixty six percent think it's

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okay if you're getting an urgent call, but it would
be best if you alerted others at your table that
you were expecting a call that you're going to need
to take, Otherwise leave it on fibrate. Sixty three percent
say it's okay to take pictures of your food, but
it should be quick snapped the photo when the plates arrive,
and then put the photo away. The poll also asked
about splitting the bill if you're on a date. Sixty
eight percent of people believe the person who initiated that

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eight should pick up the check, but it's perfectly acceptable
and consider it for the other person. To offer to
split the bill. When it comes to splitting, the most
popular way to do it in the South is a
server to divvy it up based on a person's order.
But in order with these people like to split the
bill evenly among guests or other just opt for simplicity
of one person paying and everybody paying them back with

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Venmo or something like that. I'm fine with splitting the
bill A lot of times. I will offer to take
it just because I feel like I should. I don't know,
maybe that's the dad and me. But if you want
to split it, that's fine. As far as taking pictures
of my food, I've done it a couple times, but
I'm not a big fan of it. I think people
were getting mad at me when I was taking pictures
of my food, not at the time I was eating it,

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but the next day. Tone it again for another episode
of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous daved right here.