01 · ICEBREAKERS
Funny icebreakers
Light questions to get the guest laughing in the first two minutes.
- What is the most useless talent you have?
- What is your most irrational fear?
- What is the worst gift you have ever received?
- What is a food you pretend to like?
- What would your autobiography be called?
- What is the strangest thing in your fridge right now?
- What hill will you die on that nobody cares about?
- What is the most embarrassing song you know every word to?
- What is your go-to karaoke song?
- What would your entrance music be?
02 · WOULD YOU RATHER
Would you rather questions
Always ask why. The reasoning is where the comedy is.
- Would you rather always be ten minutes late or always be two hours early?
- Would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses?
- Would you rather have a rewind button or a pause button for your life?
- Would you rather only whisper or only shout?
- Would you rather know how you die or when you die?
- Would you rather have no phone or no fridge for a year?
- Would you rather be famous for something embarrassing or unknown for something great?
- Would you rather live without music or without movies?
- Would you rather have unlimited snacks or unlimited naps?
- Would you rather talk to animals or speak every language?
03 · HYPOTHETICALS
Weird hypotheticals
Open-ended scenarios that let the guest build a bit.
- If animals could talk, which would be the rudest?
- If you were a ghost, who would you haunt and how?
- If your pet could post online, what would it say about you?
- If you had to teach a class on anything, with no preparation, what would it be?
- If you were a villain, what would your evil plan be?
- If you could add one rule to everyday life, what would it be?
- If you were a kitchen appliance, which one?
- If your life was a TV show, what genre would it be?
- If you woke up as a cat for a day, what would you do?
- If you had to eat one meal forever, what is it?
04 · HOT TAKES
Hot take and opinion questions
Harmless opinions that people feel very strongly about.
- What is your most unpopular food opinion?
- Is a hot dog a sandwich?
- What popular movie do you secretly think is bad?
- What is the most overrated holiday?
- Cereal before milk or milk before cereal?
- What is the worst way to eat a pizza?
- What everyday habit do you find unforgivable?
- Which app should be deleted from existence?
- What trend do you hope never comes back?
- What is the most overrated vacation destination?
05 · RAPID FIRE
Rapid-fire round
One-word answers, no thinking. Great as a recurring closing segment.
- Morning or night?
- Beach or mountains?
- Text or call?
- Sweet or salty?
- Cats or dogs?
- Book or movie?
- Early or on time?
- Coffee or tea?
- Summer or winter?
- Best word in the English language?
Keep the laughs, cut the silence.
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