How to Add Humor to Any Speech
Learn how to make people laugh. You’ll have more fun and the listeners will, too!
March 2007 | Toastmaster Magazine
Listeners appreciate a little humor, even in a serious speecb. Done incorrectly, humor can be a disaster. Executed correctly, humor lightens the load, eases the burden, and releases tension.
There are three basic methods for adding humor to a speech: Tell a canned joke, tell an original joke, or simply make a wry observation. …