How do you make your speech humorous?
1 Have a humorous subject.
2 Pick the story you tell which makes people laugh and use that as the opening or ending or both of a speech
3 Pick a joke and use that as the end of your speech. Take the theme and add other jokes on the same theme.
4 Write a serious speech. Make a pun in every sentence.
5 Pick an amusing prop such as a clown costume, man in apron, and build a humorous speech around it.
6 Pretend to be angry about something trivial. The disadvantages of toilet paper, pencils.
7 Debunk something serious. Why I hate funerals.
8 Be a humorous character - me the technology idiot.
9 Take an absorb premise and exaggerate it. There is a ghost in every chair.
10 Take a topical event from the news and imagine the problems. Woman has quadruplets. Conclusion, life is not as bad as you think.
A humorous speech is not the same as a comedy act. A comedy act is a distraction from your problems by making you laugh at a person who has a problem e.g.
a) bigger problems than yours - they are stuck in a sew, a stranded plane, locked in a toilet
b) a person who makes a mountain out of a molehill,
c) two characters who disagree.
A humorous speech should be on a serious subject, or practical subject, but use humour to make it enjoyable and keep the audience interested and sympathetic.
A humorous speech is not a series of one-liners on a series of random subjects.
Even if you do standup comedy, unless you do improv responding to the audience shouting subjects, you need a theme and a logical progression to help you remember.
Keep a list of what makes you laugh.
In Feb 2014, researching On This Day, I discovered that November 4th in Nepal is a day of religious observance when people worship themselves, oxen and cow dung. If I can relate this to the audience so much the better.
How many of you worship yourselves? How many of you worship oxen? How many of you worship cow dung. How many of you worship all three? How many of you are Nepalese? That explains it.
1 Have a humorous subject.
2 Pick the story you tell which makes people laugh and use that as the opening or ending or both of a speech
3 Pick a joke and use that as the end of your speech. Take the theme and add other jokes on the same theme.
4 Write a serious speech. Make a pun in every sentence.
5 Pick an amusing prop such as a clown costume, man in apron, and build a humorous speech around it.
6 Pretend to be angry about something trivial. The disadvantages of toilet paper, pencils.
7 Debunk something serious. Why I hate funerals.
8 Be a humorous character - me the technology idiot.
9 Take an absorb premise and exaggerate it. There is a ghost in every chair.
10 Take a topical event from the news and imagine the problems. Woman has quadruplets. Conclusion, life is not as bad as you think.
A humorous speech is not the same as a comedy act. A comedy act is a distraction from your problems by making you laugh at a person who has a problem e.g.
a) bigger problems than yours - they are stuck in a sew, a stranded plane, locked in a toilet
b) a person who makes a mountain out of a molehill,
c) two characters who disagree.
A humorous speech should be on a serious subject, or practical subject, but use humour to make it enjoyable and keep the audience interested and sympathetic.
A humorous speech is not a series of one-liners on a series of random subjects.
Even if you do standup comedy, unless you do improv responding to the audience shouting subjects, you need a theme and a logical progression to help you remember.
Keep a list of what makes you laugh.
In Feb 2014, researching On This Day, I discovered that November 4th in Nepal is a day of religious observance when people worship themselves, oxen and cow dung. If I can relate this to the audience so much the better.
How many of you worship yourselves? How many of you worship oxen? How many of you worship cow dung. How many of you worship all three? How many of you are Nepalese? That explains it.
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