4 Jokes That Spark Chemistry With Women

Charlie Houpert breaks down four joke formats that create chemistry: icebreaker jokes with absurd false answers, building a fake world by escalating bizarre premises, portable one-liners you can drop anywhere, and innuendo calibrated to rapport. He emphasizes reading body language and doubling down when jokes bomb.
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We all know that women like men who can make them laugh.
Don't rush straight for the fruit basket; there has to be conversation first. Listen—
I forgot how much I loved you.
But you may not realize that there are 4 specific types of jokes that women absolutely love. So in this video, you'll learn how to use these 4 jokes to create a fun, flirty conversation with anyone you're interested in. The first joke is the icebreaker joke. All you have to do for this one is answer the common questions like, "what do you do?" or "where are you from?" non-literally. Watch how Craig does it.
I'm not originally from here.
Yes, I gather that.
I'm from—
Scotland.
Jersey. But— I'm a licensed therapist.
You are?
In my own mind.
These icebreaker jokes work so well because most guys are boring at this phase of conversation. They answer literally and conversation fizzles out as a result. But by simply responding with something obviously untrue, you can make the conversation instantly more fun. Now, you may be You might be thinking, "Okay, I would like to use great icebreaker jokes but what exactly should I say for my job in my hometown?" Well, we actually have a brand new tool in Charisma University to help you craft these personalized joke answers as well as super engaging real answers that will get her to ask you follow-up questions. You could join the course and give those a try with the link below. But for now, we move to the second joke type. Now, this one is strange because men use it all the time with other men but I almost never see men use it with women. It's building a fake world. Watch Theo do it.
Oh, that's a good point. Yeah, my family's Caribbean, so like the warmth feels great. So when I'm boiling hot, like the team, like my team of guys, they're always like, they always want the air on. So it's like freezing cold in here.
It would be great if your AC or whatever had like a Caribbean setting or whatever, and you could just set that and suddenly like some great music came out.
It'd just be perfect.
And then some guy's trying to get you to gamble offshore. Suddenly you're like, what temperature is this?
The whole idea of the fake world is that you're riffing on a crazy premise like, "Wouldn't it be crazy if AC/UDN had settings for different geographies?" and then you just add more crazy additions to the fake world making it funnier and funnier as you continue.
Is there ever going to be a point where you're not touring though?
It's a good question. And then you bring your family on tour and then they gotta help out.
Yeah.
And your wife's selling merch or whatever and calling you an asshole at night, you know, outside of a fucking Waffle House or something somewhere and you're like, "Yeah, I am an asshole." That's what you think?
Now the risk of this joke is that it isn't always funny at first and if you bail on the joke before adding a few absurd follow-ups, it can go over very awkwardly. You can see this unfold when Theo is discussing presidential debates with Tomi Lahren.
I just hope that everybody keeps getting older and it keeps getting weirder. I want to see a fucking swimsuit section of the debates. That's what I want to see. I want to see it get really, really weird, you know?
Meh.
No.
No, I'm thinking that's a no.
If a joke ever goes over this badly in your life, rather than just sit quietly praying that no one notices you, you'll want to double down and that means adding more absurd follow-ups.
My mom dated a mechanic, I think, for a little while.
Really?
Yeah, I don't know if— I think she just needed new tires, to be honest with you. But damn, you know, you gotta do what you gotta do.
So happens.
Yeah, things were in a line.
She gets the new tires though?
Yeah, we got them. It's all about that PSI, Mommy. That's what we need. Fill them bad boys up, dude.
If it still bombs even after that, call yourself out, and laugh at yourself. This almost always saves the moment from becoming awkward. This takes us to the third kind of jokes which are portable jokes. These are jokes that you can place pretty much anywhere and they will always get a laugh. For example, Craig can use this joke anytime someone doesn't like the same things he does.
Can you drink coffee when you're pregnant? You can.
I think you can have a cup. I don't drink coffee because it makes me crazy.
How long have you been in Al-Qaeda? Have you ever watched Doctor Who?
No. I know.
Really?
That's interesting. How long have you been in Al Qaeda? I, uh—
You can also see Theo use a joke twice in the same conversation where he gets a laugh both times.
I got a game on tour right now.
This kid could also be 40 years old, dude. The school bus would come and my brother's friend, it would pick them up first so they'd already be on the bus and she would pick me up and give me a kiss goodbye at the end of school.
Wow.
She might have been 40 years old, but she would fucking—
So how do you make your own portable jokes? The key is to recall jokes that you you loved the first time you heard them. For me, that meant pretty much any line from the movie Step Brothers so I'd quote from this scene when there was a lot of empty space in a venue.
Look at all this floor space!
So much!
You could do aerobics in here.
So many activities!
Do step class. It's making my head spin how many activities we can do.
And this takes us to the fourth joke type that women love: the innuendo. Now, these can be risky and a lot of guys use them in ways that do make women uncomfortable and I find that explaining an innuendo to an audience this big with a wide range of social perceptiveness is tricky because using innuendo well requires you to accurately gauge a woman's interest in you. So I'm going to try to offer you some guidelines to use these flirty innuendos without tilting into the creepy zone. The first level is when you have little to no rapport and in these cases, you really don't need to use any innuendo. The other jokes we covered will work just fine but if you want to, any innuendo should be light and have nothing to do with either you or her. Like this.
They're a natural cross between a Honeycrisp and an Empire.
And are you guys crossbreeding those or something? Where do they do that?
Hopefully behind a curtain, right?
These ones can't.
Now, if the interaction is going well and you're getting feedback like prolonged eye contact, lingering touches, or she's laughing as if your jokes are way funnier than they really are, she probably has some interest, and at this stage, the innuendo can be more direct and flirtatious. So you may playfully misinterpret what she's saying as if she's making a sexual comment. This is the bread and butter of the Craig Ferguson Show. Here's an example.
Here we go.
Alright.
[SPEAKING FERGUSON] Take your time. Take your time. Don't just rush in there blowing and sucking and chewing. Take your time.
At this stage though, it's important that you use the push-pull dynamic that I discussed many years ago in an earlier Craig video and I'll link that below. What this means briefly is that you're not straight-up harping on innuendo the whole time. You also just revert to plain old silliness so you're pulling the tension up with innuendo and releasing it with playfulness.
"Mind not mimicking the act of masturbation?" "I can't do this either?" "What about if you masturbate like this?" "Yeah!" "That's okay?" Then the third level is she's just into you.
Eye contact is off the charts, she's repeatedly coming into your space, really enjoying any innuendo and even making your own. At this stage, it's totally fun and fine to have the innuendo be directly about the two of you.
I wore no underwear for you. Look where it got me.
The night is young, and if I can dig myself out of this hole, we'll get back to that.
Do you cream?
Yeah, right there when you did that to my hand.
Now, in the case of Craig, obviously he's a married man doing a television show and all this is just for fun. But the enthusiasm that he gets from his female guests is genuine. They clearly love coming on this show more than others.
What a lovely dress. You look sensational.
I wore it for you.
Really?
Yes, I did.
What, in order to sell it to me?
Uh, my plan is to seduce you.
Seduce me?
Yes. I heard you're a big flirt and I like flirting. I really do. I love it.
Really? This all points to the mindset that ties all of this together because if Craig is married and the women are still enjoying this flirtation, that means that the primary purpose of flirting shouldn't just be to get a woman to like you. It should be to maximize fun. This means that you bring that same playful vibe not just to the women that you're interested in but to everyone. You flirt with the world. Obviously excluding sexual innuendo but also maybe including it if it's fun.
"You have harmonicas?" "Yeah, do you blow the mouth organ?" "I...
do you blow the mouth organ?" "How'd you think I got this job?" Now, if you ignore that advice and you only try to be funny and charismatic with the women that you're attracted to, that desperation will come through and it will push them away. It'll also cause you to lose your relaxed natural confidence as you try to impress someone one moment out of the day and that can blow up any potential spark that was there. Theo Von actually described something similar happening to him and he wound up giving a stewardess that he'd felt a connection with no way to reach out to him all because he was feeling awkward.
And then I was just sitting there like, "Dear God, what a fucking loser." And there's a long flight left too. Who gives somebody their email?
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