Thread:JeloElducal/@comment-27480112-20190410070014/@comment-26888167-20190417023313

1 - Don't go overboard with it. Patrick yelling "FINLAND!" was funny because even though it was random, the joke didn't overstay it's welcome. If Patrick had started to quote the entire Declaration of Independence, it would've just been boring and dull. Or if Patrick had said the same "FINLAND!" line throughout the entire episode several times, it wouldn't have been funny anymore.

2 - Do it in a way other people won't find it annoying. When Chilly used to type entire sentences in caps to emphasize screaming, it wasn't funny. It was annoying. And when you feel something is annoying, it kind of ruins whatever funny the joke could've been. That's one of the reasons why Modern Spongebob isn't as funny as Classic Spongebob when it comes to Spongebob & Squidward moments. In early seasons, those moments were funny. We knew Squidward was annoyed by Spongebob, but the sponge's behavior didn't annoy the viewers. However, in Modern Spongebob, when there's similar interactions between Spongebob and Squidward, we don't find it as funny now because Spongebob's behavior is now annoying to the viewers.

3 - Ultimately, what makes random humor work or not can be really subjective. Some people don't find any random humor funny, while others will laugh at anything they're exposed to. What I recommend is to watch any media has the type of random humor you find funny, and try to dig deeper into why it's funny to you. Humor is mostly based on surprise, the unexpected. That's at core what random humor does directly. However, when the unexpected is something annoying, or something that's no funnier than what we expected to happen, it all falls apart.