Bringing Humor Into the Office With a Comedian for Funny Office Pranks
Do you want to pull office pranks on your team? Look no further than The Comedian Company. Let our professional comedians pull the pranks on your coworkers for you.
With workplace pranks, you have to be careful not to go too far; you might hurt someone’s feelings, or worse, someone could get seriously injured. So leave the office pranks to the professionals.
Here are some ways that you can use a corporate comedian to pull your funny office pranks instead. But first, we’ll go over the mental health benefits that your team can receive from funny office jokes.
Mental Benefits of Workplace Pranks
There are so many benefits to playing workplace pranks for your team’s mental health. Let’s look at the mental benefits of laughing in the workplace.
Reduces Stress
Laughter in the workplace helps to reduce workplace stress. As long as the office pranks are not “mean” or unsafe, they will help everyone in the office feel less stress, at least while at work.
Builds Relationships Among Team Members
Funny workplace pranks can help build relationships with team members. If you use a comedian to play your pranks, no one in the office will be singled out later with retaliation pranks.
Laughter can encourage communication among people who may not normally have anything to talk about. Building relationships at work helps to have a cohesive, unstoppable team.
Improves Productivity
Laughter in the workplace can help to increase produtivity. Findings suggest that laughing triggers concentration and focus areas in the brain. So, taking half a day to prank the office will be worth the added productivity you see the rest of the week with your happy team.
Break the Ice With New Employees
Having a new person in the office can be awkward for everyone, especially for the new person trying to learn everyone’s names, where each department head is located, and so on.
A great icebreaker to help your new member get involved with the team is to have a comedian pull a prank that shows you are a fun-loving company, and they will enjoy their time working there.
Fosters a Sense of Belonging at Work
Shared laughter builds social bonds, even among strangers. So, having a prank day is a fun way to help everyone feel more connected at work. Not to mention, laughter fosters team cohesion and boosts employee retention.
Builds Trust in Leadership
To build solid trust in your leadership, you should show your employees that you value them and want them to have a good time and work well. People want their leaders to know that they are human beings and not machines.
So, by getting a comedian to come in incognito to play pranks on your team, you are showing them that you care about their mental health and well-being and want to make them happy. By doing so, you are building their trust in you as a leader.
Office Pranks That a Comedian Would Be Great For
Office pranks are a fun way to cut up at work and reduce stress. But if you really want the pranks to land, why not hire a professional comedian to do the pranking for you?
Let’s look at some hilarious ways that you can hire a professional comedian to go “incognito” at work and help you pull the funniest workplace pranks ever!
Use a Comedian to Do a Ridiculous Training Class
You can book a comedian to come in and do some off-the-wall training class. Think awkward team-building exercises, an inappropriate conduct HR meeting, or impossible sales metrics.
Using an undercover comedian can really trick your team into thinking they are in a real and crazy training session.
While you could get someone at work to do this, comedians are experts at making people laugh and would be the best choice for an office prank training session that will surely get your team rolling, once they find out it was a prank.
New Guy at Work
Consider this day: the new guy, the one who does literally everything the wrong way and is beyond annoying, so much so that the boss gets mad, and that boss is you, and you hired the guy to pretend to be an annoying new guy!
A comedian can play many funny new-guy-in-the-office pranks. Or maybe he is an arrogant know-it-all who was transferred from another location to show your team how to do things properly. Maybe he is a klutz new employee, and he knocks over the water cooler and breaks a chair? You can really have some fun with this office prank.
An Angry Client or Customer
Another fun office prank you can have a comedian help you perfect is to have them play an angry client or customer. They can push everyone’s buttons until someone cracks, and you can say ” April Fool’s!” Then, to make up for the chaos, the comedian could perform a short corporate stand-up act and have everyone laughing and having a good time after dealing with “angry Karen.”
Surprise Game of Office Feud
Another great way to lighten the mood in the office is to have a surprise game of “Office Feud.” At The Comedian Company, we have a popular game show-style game called Friendly Feud, similar to Family Feud but with a comedian host.
You give us some questions and answer ideas, and our comedian will be the host, making it fun and funny. You could do work-related trivia or intimate details about each other’s personal lives; it is all fair game. Our “Office Feud” is one of the best pranks for coworkers, especially when they have no idea you’re even hosting it.
MC for a Retirement or Milestone Event
The last of our ideas for funny office pranks is to use a comedian to MC a milestone or retirement party. If you have a coworker who is about to reach a milestone and has a good sense of humor, a funny speech can make the party so much better.
Simply give the comedian some fun facts about this person’s life and work experience, and they can come up with a hilarious comedy speech that your employee will never forget. Show appreciation by providing them with a memorable night filled with laughter.
Choose the Comedian Company for Your Workplace Pranks
So, now that you know the many benefits of office jokes and pranks, let’s help you find a hilarious corporate comedian to do the work for you. Whether you need a comedian to go undercover to play a prank, MC a retirement party, or host an “Office Feud,” The Comedian Company has a comedian for you.
Fill out our form or email us at info@ComedianCompany.com and let us know what your team is like, your industry, and what kind of workplace humor you need.
We will match you with a corporate comedian who knows your business and has experience working with your audience. In fact, we can send you sample videos from a few comedians, and you can decide which one you think is funniest. Fill out our form here to get started.