Opening lines

I was just wondering how important an opening line is and what sorts of thing you should go for with one?

The one I'm planning on using at the moment is: I know what you're thinking, I'm telepathic

Cheers

Quite a nice joke. Not sure it's got enough impact for an opener, and it must have been done before (though you're probably alright if it's not been done by anyone famous). Let us know how it goes when you've tried it. I'm not a seasoned pro by any means but I think that's the right way of going about it in general for a newbie - subverting a well known comedy trope in some way.

That is good-
You can always say 'I knew you wouldn't like that' if it doesn't go down well.
Then look at them and say pervert.
But it is very good, actually it reminds me of my old chap up line-

me: What do I do? why I'm a psychic'
I knew you wouldn't believe me.

Now I use the line from Silence of the Lambs where Buffalo Bill is dancing in front of the mirror in his human skin suit.

Me: 'You want to f$%k me? You want to f%&k me?
'I want to f$%k myself'.

(Haven't tried it with my human skin suit yet...saving it for Halloween)

Quote: John Groats @ October 4 2013, 5:44 PM BST

I was just wondering how important an opening line is and what sorts of thing you should go for with one?

The one I'm planning on using at the moment is: I know what you're thinking, I'm telepathic

Cheers

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Not bad, but its a good starter line the real question is where you go next.

So a joke about what they're thinking

Thanks for all your help, I did the open mic and it went really well; some other comedians even came up afterwards and congratulated me.

Also Sootj, I tell one-liners so most of my jokes are unrelated.

Thanks again

One liners are great but if you link 'em they work better link 3 Between the routine and you've got a runner audiences love them

Well done on doing well

Sootyj; firstly thank you. Also although I do link some of my jokes;

"i used to work on a farm and life there was hard, we used to have milk goats til the cows came home... then milk the cows. And the conditions were terrible: the owners wouldn't let us leave and made us stay in the onion fields, every night I'd cry myself to sleep"

I am going to try and link more as those ones got some of the biggest laughs. So I agree I should link them and will try to do so, thanks

Thats a very nice joke