Colin the Canadian Contractor

"Hi there, I'm your new supervisor, please call me Colin. If you've got any questions, just fire away, I don't bite. By the way, do you like my new hat? My wife tells me it makes me look intelligent, but then again she always laughs when she says that. What do you think? Does it make me look intelligent?"

Sometimes there is no good answer, so a joke is your way out

I'm not quite the hat critic I made myself out to be, sorry.

This question was just an example of what you can do, when faced with some very awkward scenarios. Almost always, the best way out of a tricky corner is a joke. A well-placed joke can distract from the fact that you didn't answer the question at all.