#1. If you make enough jokes, eventually one of them will be very funny. Make the jokes that come into your head (assuming that the bad jokes that come into your head are bad because they're corny, not because they're mean or otherwise inappropriate) even when they suck. Learn which type of jokes bomb completely, but keep making jokes and eventually one will be really funny! This has happened to me several times in my life. Ofcourse, the bad jokes far outweigh the good ones in quantity, but every now and then you'll throw one out that makes people laugh so hard they cry.

(more to come as I experience them)