- A 40th birthday is definitely a cause for celebration and even more fun for the host and the guests if they can play a few tricks on the guest of honor. There are quite a few different jokes that you can play on your friends or family members. Pick jokes that your guest of honor will laugh about the most afterward and everyone at the party will enjoy themselves.
- Do not be afraid to put all 40 candles on the guest of honor's birthday cake and use candles that will not blow out. It makes the birthday boy or girl think that they no longer have enough breath to blow out a few candles. For future enjoyment, have plenty of cameras and maybe even a couple of video cameras ready. Light the candles as quickly as you can and work from the center of the candles in the cake out. It will take less time if you have two people that can work on the cake and get all 40 of the candles lit before the candles melt away.
- Tell a variety of jokes that will get your whole party laughing. Either you or another guest that you know is coming to the party can set up a whole comic routine for the guest of honor. If you tailor the jokes to the birthday honoree, party guests will find them even more funny. You can find all sorts of jokes to tell at 40th birthday parties from many different books and online sites. Jokes.contentavailable.com has a lot of jokes geared toward turning 40.
- Put together a few quotes that you can read to the guests throughout the night. If you have an oriental theme with Chinese food, you can have the fortune cookies made up with these different quotes in them. Arrange one of the party activities for different people to read the quotes themselves, at a time when everyone is sitting down and enjoying a meal or snacks. One website that contains many jokes for those who are turning 40 is thinkexist.com. Many of it quotes come from famous people which, in some cases, makes them even funnier.