Advanced Manual Details: Humorously Speaking

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Warm Up Your Audience Objectives:
  • Prepare a speech that opens with a humorous story.
  • Personalize the story.
  • Deliver the story smoothly and effectively.

Time: 5-7 minutes

Leave Them With A Smile Objectives:
  • Prepare a serious speech that opens and closes with humorous stories.
  • Prepare a closing story that reemphasizes the speech's main point.
  • Deliver the stories smoothly and effectively.

Time: 5-7 minutes

Make Them Laugh Objectives:
  • Prepare a speech that opens and closes with humorous stories.
  • Include jokes in the speech body to illustrate points or maintain audience interest.
  • Deliver the jokes and stories smoothly and effectively.

Time: 5-7 minutes

Keep Them Laughing Objectives:
  • Prepare a speech that opens with a self-depreciating joke.
  • String together two or three related jokes in the speech body.
  • Close the speech with a humorous story.

Time: 5-7 minutes

The Humorous Speech Objectives:
  • Use exaggeration to tell a humorous story.
  • Entertain the audience.
  • Effectively use body language and voice to enhance the story.

Time: 5-7 minutes

This information is provided as a service to our members.  For full details on each project, refer to the Advanced Speaker manual.