How To Use Comedy, Humour, and Jokes in Your Marketing (Even if you're not funny) with Adam Hunt from White Label Comedy

Should you use comedy and jokes in your marketing? Should all brands be funny? Is that the right thing to do? We asked Adam Hunt, who helps brands and businesses do exactly that - be funny. So let's hear it from the man himself - how do you use humour in your marketing?SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: (2:15) Does Kennedy really know what a Vespa is?(3:50) Should all brands try and be funny?(4:50) How to find the humour that's right for your brand.(7:00) Why you need to start from the truths that matter to your audience in the context of what you do.(10:06) How to sprinkle humour on top of your message.(12:15) Adam's easy process to find humour in things (and write jokes from them).(15:40) How to be a bigger and bolder version of you. (18:08) Why you shouldn't let the jokes get in the way of the message.(20:40) How to use humour for all the right reasons. (22:34) Subject line of the week with Adam Hunt.How can you find humour that's right for your brand? Should all brands try and be funny? Well, according to Adam, they should be funny in the right way. And what that means is that the right kind of humour for your business comes from brand essence and everything you stand for. Comedy done the right way is relatable content that happens to be funny.But how do we find the type of humour that's right for us?Adam explained that a joke is made of two things that shouldn't fit together but do, thanks to a cleverly placed twist. And the key to the twist is that it needs to be a truth that you're using to bridge the gap between those two things.When you're trying to make jokes that appeal to a specific audience, you need to go after their truth. In other words, what could you say to your audience that will make them go, "That is so true!"Use humour in your marketing by starting from your audience's truthsJokes are clever comparisons. And if you make the right comparison, you'll get the right reaction.So your first job here is to work out what matters to your audience in the context of what you do and how and why that helps them and their world.Adam and his team use a tool call Relatability Matrix, which is a grid that contains a brand's USP and values to start with. But it also looks at key ideas from sales pages and other types of content and at relatable truths for that brand's audience that can be combined with other elements on the grid.We can do this too! Adam's tip is to start by working out what you need to say to your audience in order to achieve your objectives. Then, you can come up with ways to express that in such a way that will move people to the right kind of action.If you tell jokes for the sake of it - if you use humour in your marketing in a way that doesn't serve your brand's purpose - then you're just being funny for the sake of vanity or engagement. And you could actually get the opposite effect of putting people off.How to find humour in things (and write your own jokes)The first step is to find a clever comparison. So start by making a list of relatable truths that you know your audience is going to agree with.Then make another list. It could be things that are going on in the world, or things that are relevant to your business - it doesn't matter what this is.The third step is to go through both lists together and try and connect two of the things you've got on them.You're not trying to be funny here - you're just trying to come up with some basic parallels, similarities, or differences. Once you've done this freewriting exercise, you'll end up with ideas that you can then develop and polish. Add your...