Key areas to create value with humor

1. Ask yourself WWJD? (What Would Jerry Do?) Take an everyday situation and ask yourself, “What’s funny about this?”
2. Keep it clean. Steer clear of controversial topics and jokes in bad taste.
3. Use your wittiness to compete against big budgets. 
4. Just because your company is serious doesn’t mean all marketing has to be. Poke fun at yourself by doing a parody of your company or your industry.
5. The best humor comes naturally. Experiment by recording video interviews with quirky customers and employees.

• Some people might not appreciate your company’s brand of humor. Make sure the humor fits.
• Being funny may not work for healthcare, financial services or any highly regulated industry.
• Try using an online survey to test your attempt at humor against an internal audience before you send it out. 

• People will enjoy working with you.
• Humor is a potent stress buster.
• It is humanizing.
• It puts others at ease.
• Ha + ha = aha!  Humor is a key ingredient in creative thinking.
• It helps build trust.
• It boosts morale.
• People who use humor tend to be more approachable.
• Humor can allow your company to stand out.
• It can increase productivity.

The best and most comfortable place to find humor comes from your own personal experience. 

Jot down funny ideas as you come across it that might appeal to your audience - an embarrassing moment that you might not have found funny at the time, or a funny conversation you had. 

Make sure your choose humor is funny to you. First practice with small groups of people. Pay attention to the way your are delivering the joke or quip.

Only use humor in a speech after you are comfortable telling it from memory and have tested it.

Humor and status have always been tightly linked: good leaders seem to often use humor in order to motivate their team members' actions. As individuals, we tend to prefer, researchers claim, jokes that make us laugh while feeling slightly uncomfortable.

Furthermore, we perceive the joke teller as a self-confident person, who could easily become a leader due to his or her courage to make such a joke. The key point here is that the joke should be appropriate and match the context.

Making inside jokes usually shows how bounded a team or a group is: their jokes can understood the best by themselves.

However, the moment an outsider integrates the group, it is better to avoid the inside jokes, as this will most probably make him or her feel out of place.

• Humorous information receives increased attention during the perception stage.
• Improved encoding. Our brain gives preferential treatment to humorous information when it comes to storing it in our memory.
• The use of humor serves as a distraction from negative emotions, such as anger or anxiety, that people might experience when processing certain information.
• Reading or viewing something humorous has a positive and energizing effect.
• Adding humor to the information that you are presenting can make it more interesting to others.

The use of positive, nonaggressive humor is associated with 

• improved learning outcomes, 
• a relaxed learning environment, 
• better student evaluations, 
• an increased motivation to learn, 
• improved information recall, 
• an increased degree of student satisfaction throughout the learning process.

The use of negative or aggressive humor, especially if aimed at particular students, will produce the opposite effect.

• Good Humor is Inclusive.

• Good Humor Promotes Bonding.

• Bosses and managers who use self-deprecating humor are considered more approachable and human.

• Bad Humor Is Poison and can affect an employee’s performance or future.

• Clumsy Humor is a Risk. Your audience might take offence instead of laugh.

The appeal of TikTok is mostly among Gen Z, who love music, weird behaviour, humour and fashion. They love the blend of a social media network which is focused on consuming and creating viral content, along with catchy music.

TikTok, whose Chinese owners are worth billions now, wasn’t the first-of-its-kind app but became a runaway success due to its unique format. Music biggies became early adopters of the TikTok format, using creative techniques to magnetically lure viewers and ensure it goes viral.

Food scientist Sam J. Porcello invented the newer version of the Oreo. He was one of the world's foremost experts on cocoa and helped develop the extra indulgent chocolate and white chocolate-covered Oreo.

The original recipe for Oreo cookies contained lard (pork fat). With the changing climate of the low-fat 1990s, the lard was replaced, and the cookie became kosher and unexpectedly also vegan.

• In 1984, The Oreo Big Stuf was launched. Individually wrapped, the snack was a massive 316 calories (a single Oreo contains about 53 calories) and took around 20 minutes to eat.
• Oreo cookies are also used in pie crusts, churros, and ice cream cones.
• In January 2017, Virginia-based The Veil Brewing Company released a version of their chocolate milk stout infused with real Oreo cookies. It was sold out within a week.
• Game of Thrones Oreo: One winter, a special edition Oreos came out embossed with the crests of the four remaining (at the time) houses. The cookie company went to the production company that made the main titles for GoT Elastic. The Oreo-meets-GoT universe took about 2,750 computer-generated Oreos with 20 million crumbs scattered throughout the Oreo-scape.

If you are planning on improving yourself at something in particular, you should also be prepared to work on developing some other several micro-skills necessary in order to get the job done. 

It would be useful to gather up all the knowledge you have acquired up to the present moment, be it even by hours. The more, the better.

When trying to improve certain skills, bear in mind that failing is not an issue: the more you fail, the more chances you get to study your own mistakes and learn from them. 

Therefore, take risks by accepting different challenges related to your passion, which could teach you valuable lessons.