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Learn to entertain and relax your audience with humor to enhance your presentation. Understand the importance of humor, its requirements, and three rules for successful comedic delivery. Master the art of being light, original, and appropriate.
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Speaking to Entertain …to relax your audience by providing them with a pleasant listening experience
Usually… • A lighter tone • Not technical or argumentative • Supporting materials chosen for entertainment value
Why use humor? • Provides special insight into topic • Shows that you have a “complete mastery of your subject” • Makes a dull message more interesting and effective
Requirements for Humor • Levity (quality of being light) • Originality (put your own stamp on the common…and test it out first) • Appropriateness (to audience, speaker and occasion)
Three Rules for humor… • Be light, original and appropriate (don’t try to be funny) • Wait for laughter to subside before resuming • If no laughter, keep going…
Remember… • Humor can be difficult even for the most accomplished speakers.