Being funny is one of the best things to do in life.

It sets people at ease.

It relaxes the atmosphere.

It makes you appear friendlier and more approachable.

It means awkward silences are no longer awkward.

People sometimes laugh at your jokes when you don't expect them to, which is nice.

Anyway, I'm not sure how it is for everyone, but here is how I try to be funny. 

This is a step-by-step carefully executed thought process.

M'kay, so here's an example.

For those of you cursed with not being able to see the picture, here is the basic conversation:

April: and Derren being converted to swiftism

Barney: shh, Owen doesn't know about that- either way, we're dead now

April: oops?

Me: my notifications seem to be cursed today. *merry chuckle* now what's this about derren being converted to swiftism? Sorry, ladies, he already has a faith.

Barney: what faith would that be? oWeNtIsM?

*note- this might not be entirely accurate.*

Here, this is what I generally do:

Option a:

Focus on the 'what faith would that be' part.

Option b:

Focus on the 'oWeNtIsM' part.

Further dissections:

Option 1a:

Answer the actual question, and make up a faith. Make it appear improvised and desperate.

'Oh, um. Uh. Uh. Owenism. Yea lets roll with that.'

Yea- informal 'yes'

Dropping the apostrophe on 'lets'- informal and friendly

(Making grammatical and punctuation errors makes you appear much more like a human being)

Option 1b:

Make up a faith, but make it appear as if it's very famous, or old, or both. But not neither. Anything but neither. God forbid you do anything but neither.

'What the- Owenism, of course. Not OWeNtIsM. You need taste! Elegance! Style! Of course, you uncultured noobs would know nothing about such things. Go back to your turnip fields.'

Now, here, we could play on a joke that was made by Audrey, a few months ago, in which she inferred that my family were 'cute little turnips'. In this case the end could be customised into:

'Go back to your turnip fields. Grovel in the dirt. Worship your potato gods. Your family. Is that them in the corner? Cute little turnips.'

Option 1c:

Here, we might speculate that I declared Derren's supposed religious category (already worshipping) because I didn't want him to be converted to Swiftism. In which case, the answer might appear like this:

'It doesn't matter what faith, just anything other than SwIfTiSm.'

The heterochronological order of the letters- LiKe ThIs- is almost a verbal direction. It's said in a different, perhaps more exaggerated way if speaking.

Of course, we might think of it as if it doesn't matter which faith he's converted into, because we're playing on the idea of acceptance and love, which are primary aspects of most non-satanical religions. Using this inference, we could say:

'It doesn't matter as long as you're all in love with Haysus' and then perhaps some emojis portraying positivity.

The Haysus part comes from the idea of a Spanish-originated saint or religious person, and could be treated as a joke mine. 

Joke mines are jokes in waiting. It's a clear statement that perhaps requires a question or specific reaction from the listener or audience, upon which the full blow of the joke can be delivered. Some can be more obvious than others.

Of course, we might be able to extend this idea further, and perhaps venture into the general humour of younger generations. It tends to involve self-depreciating jokes and occasionally satanical references, such as death, or the act of teaming up, defeating, assisting or becoming a force that is involved in world destruction. Taking this idea into account, we might say:

'It doesn't matter which faith Derren is converted into as long as the Antichrist can burn humanity.'

We might even add in a simile, on that portrays mankind as incredibly flammable, to add to the light-heartedness of the situation.

'It doesn't matter which faith Derren is converted into as long as the antichrist can burn humanity like little cocktail sausages.'

I will expound into further detail on the next chapter, as I know that your little minds can't take much information all at once :)