Don't try to give a funny opinion; give your opinion in a way that will be funny.

In addition to listening to the audience's laugh, you want to listen to their silence. Is it bored or interested silence? The silence is quieter and filled with energy when they're interested. You can hear a pin drop. When they're bored, you can always hear it.

When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself.

Walking back and forth also helps by creating the illusion that you are thinking of the routines on the spot, giving your performance a more spontaneous feeling.

Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.

You must study their deliveries, their use of their bodies, their timing, and their use of audio and vocal effects.

It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.