Learning to make fun of people the right way can be a good way of making friends with other people who have sarcastic senses of humor, as well as putting humorless mean people in their place. You can tease your friends in a nice way, cutting up and keeping conversations flowing with hilarity. See Step 1 to learn how to make fun of your friends.
Part 1 of 2:
Teasing Your Friends
1. Be sarcastic
Nothing cuts to it quicker than a good sarcastic tone of voice. Using sarcasm implies that the other person is stupid just for asking a reasonable question, and it's usually pretty easy to pull off every now and then. It's a funny and light way to make fun of someone.[1]
Say the opposite of what you mean when someone asks you a specific question: "Yeah, I aced that test. I'm a mathlete, you didn't know? My professorship at MIT comes through next week."
Give obviously-wrong answers to questions. If someone asks, "Where have you been?" a good sarcastic answer might be, "Me and Steve were up in the mountains skinning rabbits and trading the pelts for rocket supplies. The operation's really humming. Where have YOU been?"
Exaggerate your response. If someone says, "You look like crap today" come back with, "Apologies, master. To the stocks with I. Shall I bring 'round the Pinto?"
2. Make fun
Learn the difference between making fun and being cruel.[2] It's usually even funnier to tease someone for something that's obviously not true. You're not "making fun" of a good friend who gets bad grades and might be sensitive about it to point that out by making a cruel joke and drawing attention to it, but it could be hilarious to tease your buddy who gets straight As in the same way.
3. Tease
Tease someone about their smarts. Making fun of someone for their intelligence can be funny and effective, provided its not a sore spot of their identity:
"Is that all the words you know? Stunning."
"You can stop talking now. We're all getting dumber."
"If I wanted to listen to that much crap I'd stick my head in a cow's butt."
"I would sew my forehead to the carpet to get you to stop talking."
4. Looks
Tease someone about their looks. Picking on someone's clothes or hair can be a good way of teasing someone gently and making fun. Avoid picking on people's weight or skin, which can be sensitive areas and cross the line into bullying behavior.[3] Instead, try on disses like this:
"Nice shirt. Shopping in the douche section again?"
"You dress like my dentist. Except you're not rich and you do nothing for me."
"It smells like there are mice in your hair again. You should check."
"Where I'm from, when people dress like that, they're trying to steal paint cans from my shed."
5. Funny smiles
Use funny similes and metaphors. Channel your inner Lil Wayne and use weird similes to make fun of someone.[4] They don't necessarily have to make sense. You'll have people in stitches the weirder and the funnier they are. Embrace randomness and goofiness in your similes. Try on these for size:[5]
"You're dressed like Chairman Mao at a pool party. Seriously."
"You look kind of like my uncle when he has a hangover from mouthwash."
"You're like the Michael Jordan of being super annoying."
"You smell like Hulk Hogan's shower."
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