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Every time Jimmy Fallon tweets "It’s Hashtags time!", you know it’s going to be good. Remember when he asked Twitter to ruin a movie title by adding one word to it? Or to do the same with TV shows? As dozens of people shared utterly hilarious results, the host of The Tonight Show decided to come back with a bang. These features inspired him to put forward another hilarious challenge, and this time, a topic that takes center stage — things from our daily lives.

"Take a product, add one word to change the meaning, and tag it with #AddAWordRuinAProduct," Fallon asked and stirred an avalanche of entertaining responses where people had lots of fun laughing at their beloved items. From K-Pop Tarts to Chunky Monkey Pox, people set out to prove how a few letters can lead to utter hilarity, and boy, did they deliver!

To show you that humor is just a single word away, our team here at Bored Panda has wrapped up a collection of some of the best tweets down below. Enjoy scrolling through these jokes, and be sure to upvote your favorite ones! If you think of any other funny examples, let us know all about them in the comments, we’d love to hear them.

Psst! After you’re done reading this post, check out even more responses to recent Fallon challenges here: #WhyImSingle, #WorstSummerJob, and #PromFail.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the 90's(?) they had an ad campaign, "Make 7up Yours!" They had shirts that said "Make 7" on the front and "Up Yours" on the back. I could be misremembering but I think Godfrey was the spokesperson for the campaign. This could have all been a fever dream. EDIT: It was Orlando Jones.

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This challenge on The Tonight Show was all about making people laugh by adding only a word or just a few letters to a product and giving us a whole new context to laugh at. And by looking at these tweets, one thing is crystal clear. There are volumes upon volumes of items that almost beg for our attention and ask to be put in the spotlight — in the most hilarious way possible.

But why are we so entertained by reading these jokes? Why do we often feel the urge to devour humor in the first place? Well, it turns out that comedy is much more than just a pleasant way to pass an evening, a night down at the bar, or get through a grueling day at work.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You get to run over everybody that have been trying to reach you about your car extended warranty.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then Karens all over the internet would be like “have you tried bathing in the essential oil spill? It’ll work wonders for that Cancer you have”

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See, laughter brings us closer to others, whether we’re joking with our friends and partners or cracking up at jokes online. A 2016 study conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, looked at the cases when laughter works as a social glue, and when it doesn’t.

The scientists wanted to measure how shared laughter might impact a relationship with a stranger, so they asked participants to watch a funny, not-so-funny, or not-funny-at-all clip while supposedly video-chatting with another same-sex participant. Little did these people know that they chatted with a pre-recorded clip of someone laughing the same amount for the first and the second videos, but only smiling occasionally during the last one.

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After watching these clips, the participants filled out questionnaires about the emotions they felt during the viewing and how much they wanted to get to know the person sitting on the other side of the screen. "For people who are laughing together, shared laughter signals that they see the world in the same way, and it momentarily boosts their sense of connection," social psychologist and co-author of the study Sara Algoe, told the Greater Good Magazine. "Perceived similarity ends up being an important part of the story of relationships."

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If you want to become better at bonding but can’t seem to strike up funny jokes on the spot, then don’t worry! Many people believe that being humorous is an innate skill that only a few were lucky enough to be born with. However, it seems like wittiness is something that we can learn and that can be improved with practice.

As Alan Roberts, an Associate Tutor at the University of Sussex, UK, explained in a piece on the Conversation, humor is human, but not everyone has perfected this art just yet. He offered several rules of thumb to follow for anyone seeking to become more humorous.

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The first one is simply to be more playful. "Keeping your audience in a state of play is essential for humor," he explained. "Evolutionary biologists have characterized humor as evolving from social play following observations that apes emit vocalizations resembling laughter during playful activities such as tickling, chasing or wrestling. This would explain why humor is fundamentally social."

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The second guideline would be to contradict yourself. Roberts wrote that contradictory interpretation is a recurring tool in comedy. When it comes to puns, it can sound something like: "Never date a tennis player. Love means nothing to them." Talking about situations, he provided another example: "Claire calls Craig and warns him to be careful driving on the motorway because the radio says there’s a nut driving in the wrong direction. 'No kidding'’ says Craig. 'There are hundreds of them!'"

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Another rule Roberts suggested to try may sound silly, but it’s proven time and again to lead to utter hilarity: be illogical. "Linguists say that humor differs from puzzle-solving in that we are not looking for sense but rather for nonsense," he explained, adding that whenever we hear a completely nonsensical joke, we take delight in the illogical reasoning.

Lastly, Roberts pointed out that simply knowing these four rules is not enough to be funny. But taking time to understand humor and honing your witty craft with practice is bound to show results. And what better way to do that than to participate in Jimmy Fallon’s hilarious challenges? Well, if you missed out on this one but have a hilarious product-related joke in store, then don’t be shy and share it with us in the comments!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’d listen to that over the normal filth that comes with some podcasts

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