Is it risky to joke with your interviewer?

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i gave my interviewer a pretty hard time about vandy football (being a ut grad myself)... he laughed and i thought it went well, but i got waitlisted. probably unrelated, just throwing it out there.

 

[VoiceofReason]

dead baby jokes are dumb as hell anyway.

I don't understand how the opportunity to to "tell a joke" comes up anyway unless the interviewer says "tell me a joke." ... I think we're more talking about saying something witty or making a humorous aside like NotDeadYet mentioned.

 

[MDRus]

they're just goofing around with the dead baby joke thing.

yes, we are talking about witty banter, or keeping it serious. i prefer to banter, but i worry that i should keep a lid on it. it has always worked well for me in the past, but this whole scene is different.

 

[MattD]

Question: Why do you want to become a doctor?


Answer: Three words -- chicks, money and drugs.


Would that kind of thing be frowned upon? Do they like jokes?

Being personable, amiable, and joking around with an interviewer who is amenable to such is fine and encouraged. Making this particular joke would be the most idiotic thing imaginable.

 

[Virgil]

Oh! I know a good one that'll appeal to the projected age demographic:

"What did the 5 fingers say to the face?!?"

"SLAP!"

 

[Doublecortin]

Question: Why do you want to become a doctor?


Answer: Three words -- chicks, money and drugs.


Would that kind of thing be frowned upon? Do they like jokes?

👎 very distasteful and immature. Would defininitely be frowned upon.

 

[MDRus]

👎 very distasteful and immature. Would defininitely be frowned upon.

dude, keep up with the thread. we have moved on from initial post to a litany of ribald humor.

but thanks for the advice. (btw, i was kinda, sorta kidding with the OP.)

 

[Drogba]

dude, keep up with the thread. we have moved on from initial post to a litany of ribald humor.

but thanks for the advice. (btw, i was kinda, sorta kidding with the OP.)

No.... Really?

I still don't understand why people take the threads you open seriously 😕

 

[BMBPSU2008]

Oh! I know a good one that'll appeal to the projected age demographic:

"What did the 5 fingers say to the face?!?"

"SLAP!"

How about...

Two pretzels are walking down the street, one's assaulted.

 

[MassTransport]

How about...

Two pretzels are walking down the street, one's assaulted.

Boo.

 

[gwill024]

Question: Why do you want to become a doctor?


Answer: Three words -- chicks, money and drugs.


Would that kind of thing be frowned upon? Do they like jokes?

I have heard that if you can make your interviewers laugh, without actually telling a joke, you are basically a shoe-in. It has held true in both of my acceptances.

 

[shantster]

I like people who are able to joke appropriately, but don't come in with something rehearsed since it won't carry well. It's good if that's part of your personality and flows naturally with the interview but don't force it.

 

[BoilerWolverine]

I have heard that if you can make your interviewers laugh, without actually telling a joke, you are basically a shoe-in. It has held true in both of my acceptances.

I second this. I left my work experience at Nordstrom as a men's shoe salesman off of my AMCAS aps, and it turned out to be a great thing...

When asked if I had anything that wasn't on the ap, I casually mentioned it and they got a huge kick out of it. I then went on to joke about how sorry I felt for the women's shoe guys, as they often had to bring many of the same pair of shoes in a bunch of colors, you know, just so she could see how it looked. Even my female interviewers got a kick out of it.

I basically made a blatantly sexist joke work, but you need to get them laughing and set them up for something like that. If you just come out and try and be funny, you're going to look like an ass.

 

[jad2121]

My friend was on an interview. The interviewer asked him what his greatest weakness is, he quickly answered "chocolate". The interviewer just looked at him with a blank stare. He tried to make it up by saying that he was joking and that his biggest weakness is "working too hard", but he ended up getting rejected anyway

 

[BoilerWolverine]

My friend was on an interview. The interviewer asked him what his greatest weakness is, he quickly answered "chocolate". The interviewer just looked at him with a blank stare. He tried to make it up by saying that he was joking and that his biggest weakness is "working too hard", but he ended up getting rejected anyway

Are you sure your friend is not actually a woman? Chocolate?

Too bad his writers weren't on strike.

 

[154465]

No.... Really?

I still don't understand why people take the threads you open seriously 😕

It's because he has no avatar!

 

[Drogba]

It's because he has no avatar!

Are you insinuating something about me?