Joke Party Retirement

Have you thought of writing one of your own?

You can have a unique, totally tailored joke while being creative.

Melvin Helitzer, author of Comedy Writing Secrets, states that the skillful use of humor can create respect, cause your words to be remembered, and earn you great rewards. He states, “ It is psychologically impossible to hate someone with whom you have laughed.” You may gain a new career as a humor writer!

Mel states that the cardinal rule of humor is creating surprise. To Mel, a joke is a story and a surprise ending is almost always its finale. Here is Mel’s joke formula:

1. Target- base your material on an important target shared with your intended audience, this is the common bridge between performer and audience.

2. Hostility- we use humor to eradicate hostile feelings. Remove sexual frustration, financial concerns, authority frustration or address joke party retirement concerns!

3. Realism and exaggeration- this is a 2 step process: state some common expected outcome with a cliché usually, then in the last word or two, change the expected ending to a surprise.

4. Emotion and surprise- build emotional tension with the hostility we used in step 2 like a balloon that we continue to blow into, then finally bursting it making the audience laugh.

When your topic is joke party retirement, use this story: Your retiree is known for his ability to make money on the stock market and most everyone in the office would like to know his secrets.

“ We all admire Jack’s ability to work the market. When Jack started to say retire- half of the office bought stock in Good Year.”

Okay, I know you can do better than that! In fact, we encourage you to submit your jokes on joke party retirement to this site! We will list them for others.

Here are some retirement jokes we have heard.

"What kind is it?" Says his friend.

"It's 5 O'clock." from M.T. Vancouver BC

Showing respect for their fallen comrade, the other five continue playing, standing up. Finkelstein looks around and asks, "So who's gonna tell the wife?"

They draw straws. Goldberg picks the short one.

They tell him to be discreet, be gentle, don't make the bad situation any worse. "Discreet? I'm the most discreet mensch you'll ever meet. Discretion is my middle name. Leave it to me."

Goldberg goes over to the Meyerwitz apartment and knocks on the door. The wife answers and asks what he wants.

Goldberg declares, "Your husband just lost $500 and is afraid to come home."

The wife says, "Tell him to drop dead."

"I'll go tell him," says Goldberg. from Orilea, BC

What do I do with the next half of my life? There is a very strong possibility that we will live to 100 or more! You have much to offer the world, your combination of skills, abilities and attitudes need to be recombined, repackaged and added to by developing your latent abilities and forgotten desires into a new dynamic vision that you share with all of us.

Full Life Seminars offers materials that can be downloaded that break the retirement mold. You can develop a vision of retirement, which we see as a new career, that is soul satisfying. You could take the essence of your present career that brings you so much satisfaction and modify it. Shucks, you could say “I’ve reconsidered my retirement and I’m not!” You can say no to joke party retirement!

You may decide that a totally new venture is called for. We all need to feel a degree of risk to feel alive, you may package that into a new business, a new career, or a challenge of a new skill.

Take the risk to feel alive and connected, you are needed to express your best.

Hugh and Joanne Wiley have developed a workbook that takes what you already know, and what you know you don't know, and moves you to action.

Beyond Your Career - Reinventing Retirement takes you through a process and system which helps you focus on what you want to do and what is possible and leaves you with a plan to explore your possibilities.
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