sarcasm is one of the toughest types of
humor to pull off when executed
improperly it can leave people angry at
you as often as it leaves them laughing
so in this video we are going to take a
look at the king of sarcasm Ryan
Reynolds aka Deadpool the hell's your
name
ray Vance come here alright Stevie
Wonder what's your superpower so how do
you use sarcasm without leaving people
angry or hurt well if you're going to do
it it cannot be a one-off potshot
otherwise it feels like a pointed attack
so getting in the habit of joking all
the time even in semi serious moments
helps signal to others that your
statements are usually to be taken in
jest now I talked about this at length
in our video on Chris Pratt so I won't
go too far here I'll leave a link in the
description but here's a quick example
of taking a serious question about who
Deadpool is and making it much more
absurd you know that I think they see
that the world is ready for something
different no matter what the rating is
though babies will love this of course
there are times when you're going to
give an honest answer so that people can
actually get helpful responses but
there's still an opportunity to crack a
joke afterwards
watching this next clip how we get the
real answer then a joke and then a
heightened version of the joke which is
a classic comedic technique is Ryan
Reynolds missing a tooth Deadpool sense
of humor is really just an extreme
version of Ryan's so here is that
principle taken to the extreme now for
context in the next scene Wade Wilson
you can't sleep because he's worried
about his terminal cancer and this is
what he says
Hey sorry Liam Neeson nightmare dropped
i kidnapped his daughter he just wasn't
happening this irreverence and refusal
to be serious for too long is common to
most comedians and you're gonna see it
in almost all of our other breakdowns on
funny personalities but one bit that is
a signature of Ryan Reynolds style is
its specificity watch these next clips
for examples what did you play your wife
is in labor
I jammed a little Marvin Gaye's let's
get it on how did that go it was like
steak knives but they both sob
hysterically when I'm in this car maker
so it's very traumatizing to them so I
they'll be re-enacting most of those
episodes with crude sock puppets and a
therapist I understand yeah yeah but the
thing is this is back when like the
internet was made of a fax machine of
would like all of those jokes could have
been told easily in a less funny way if
they were just less specific for
instance he could have just said staring
daggers at me instead of steak knives
came out of her eyes but the generic
version misses the humor that comes from
hyper specificity crazy as it sounds
just getting specific will turn your
lame jokes into laser guided homing
pigeons of hilarity see what I did there
now and since Deadpool is just an
exaggeration of Ryan's day-to-day sense
of humor we see the same ultra specific
principle used to create comedy in the
movie let's not forget naked tandem
base-jumping with the WNBA's Sacramento
monarchs now in a real world without a
script this level of specificity can't
possibly be planned so you have to get
used to just throwing random sequences
of words together and seeing what comes
out and you will not always have the
right combination so you're gonna blurt
out all kinds of random things and for
an example that just watch how Ryan
riffed when he was shooting Deadpool
gonna leave me all alone here with
christianmingle.com leave me all alone
here with Kevin Sorbo you're all you're
gonna leave me here all alone with nikki
sixx
believe me all alone here with Busta
Rhymes figure to leave me all alone here
with Henry Winkler you know leave me all
alone here with
cuz you're gonna leave me all alone here
with Criss Angel Mindfreak and when you
throw this much volume of humor out
sometimes you hit the nail on the head
leave me alone here with less angry
Rosie O'Donnell not everything Ryan said
there was hilarious and that last one
was even a little bit upsetting for Gina
Carano but that is the price that you
pay for letting your brain just
free-associate and blurt things out and
it's really the only way to tap into the
style of humor in your own life you have
to get used to lowering the filter on
what you say and letting duds come out
sometimes in order to build a stronger
sense of intuition of what is going to
be funny now that said the filter isn't
dropped completely because there are a
few guidelines that Ryan almost always
follows in order to make sure that his
sarcasm doesn't wind up just hurting
people's feelings like this other type
of sarcasm might I am a fan I just be
watching and just being like so what are
the actual filters that Ryan uses when
he's using sarcastic humor
well first he almost always makes
himself the butt of those sarcastic
comments just take a look question why
is such a cop I'm kidding I'm totally
I'm kidding that's the second question I
skipped ahead let's get to the heart of
the matter now why can't you be like
other actors good ones speed round which
stage were you always good with the
ladies do you always have game what
would you like as a kid I what no not
really I mean I you know I I really up
until I was like 18 I I looked like a
Vietnamese girl second even when Ryan's
jokes appear to criticize other people
the subtext of the joke is often that
he's the stodgy old man who's angry for
a bad reason so really he's teasing
himself like in these clips eat your
brain alive for a month highschool
pricks you could you could shove your
name
name a song up your ass anyone else new
Assisting jiggling like this third when
Ryan does make someone else the butt of
a joke he usually teases their strengths
or something that would be totally
absurd so that there's no reason for
them to get upset about it there's a
certain height at which you can't really
be a movie star right I don't know I
know some that are huge when we starts
that are under 4 foot I have one friend
that always like my daughter is quoting
check off and she's two and I was like
your daughter is an follow these
very simple filters you can use all of
the sarcasm that your little heart
desires without worrying about leaving
people upset now you might be thinking
though wait a second Deadpool doesn't do
any of this in fact many of the jokes
the Deadpool makes are very much at the
expense of other people who plays here
no just kidding I know it's been decades
you'd be surprised
pretty grossed out mr. Wilson and this
is where Ryan and Deadpool differ
because even though they have very
similar styles of humor the difference
is that Deadpool does not use those four
filters that we just touched on he will
tease anyone even if it might come
across as mean and he will go right at
their potential insecurities now this
works because we're the audience we're
in a movie theater but if those types of
jokes were cracked in real life they
might make us laugh but we'd also think
man that guy's kind of a jerk so it's a
combination of letting the filter on
what you say relax while keeping those
few guidelines that we mentioned that's
how you can use sarcasm to its most
excellent effect in fact it's these
simple guidelines like this that allow
you to be spontaneous in the moment
while still ensuring that you're
charismatic and not offensive and if you
do want more we also have a simple four
piece framework for making an amazing
first impression on anyone every time so
if that interests you go ahead click the
link in the description and you can get
a video that's going to show you those
four steps and start using
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