How to Use Humor in a Speech Opening
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- How to you use humor in a speech or presentation opening (Part 2 of 5). Many options exist to grab your audience's attention when public speaking but I do not recommend telling punchline jokes.
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Unless you are a truly hilarious person, however, straight up joke will not likely work.
At the same time, I'm 100% in favor of using lighthearted humor to grab an audience's attention.
How do you make a funny speech without telling jokes?
1. Quote somebody funny. Quotations are great and you can find humorous quotations for your attention grabber. Be sure to say "As [blank] once said . . ." as you transition into the quotation. That will help to transport your listeners. Position yourself so that both you and your listeners are focusing on the quotation and the person who said it. Don't make it sound like you are the one saying it. That will help listener's hear the other person's voice in their heads and take the attention off of you as the joke teller.
2. Tell a lighthearted story. Stories don't have punchlines. They have situations people can imagine. Most funny stories have a goal that the people in the story are trying to accomplish and the obstacles in the story become a funny series of problems they have to overcome. As long as the end goal is lighthearted, each obstacle or issue the people in the story face will sound quite funny and weave a great attention getter.
3. Show a humorous visual. It can be a funny picture with a caption or just an image that is funny on its own.
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Timestamps:
1:40 Jokes are high risk
1:57 However, humor is good
2:11 1. Quote somebody funny
3:37 2. Tell a lighthearted story
4:42 3. Show a funny visual
5:14 100% against telling your own jokes
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Professional demeanor, personable & the voice of experience - Mr. Lyon is a wonderful guru. Thank you, sir. Bravo!
Try to say what ever it is you think is humorous in a way that you your audience does not think you were trying to be funny. When they hear it come from you with that innocent look on your face and you avoid leaving a long pause after your zinger it usually has a good effect. If they don’t laugh nothing is lost because you didn’t set the expectation.
Facts confidence and not caring outweighs everything
Hey I’m running for student council!!! Thanks so much
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me too
my speech was great, got a great grade, thanks for the help
Your advice helped me stop worry about my speech and get onto writing it. PS: I went for a couple funny memes I managed to link to my theme. Great advice. Thanks.
How did your presentation go?
Thank you so much! I had to do a speech about comedy to my ENTIRE SCHOOL and I won first prize! Thx sm!😁
That's great, Cassie. Well done!
Absolutely love this - I think the wisest people in the world are good-natured comedians
Hey thanks for the like! I'm trying to work on my humor so I can connect with students across the world for a school project - was wondering if you'd be willing to connect on LinkedIn?
How i start my presentation:
Me: Hi i’m your hope
Everybody votes for me
Winner of a video, been searching for "wedding ceremony speech ideas" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Heyonnor Speechless Eradicator - (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some decent things about it and my neighbour got amazing success with it.
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The beginning of this video had no humour in it so I stopped watching.
I hear you but I'm just a teacher, a college professor. This isn't a comedy or entertainment channel, it's an education channel. But, I agree that the video would be even better had it been comedic, though.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon I’m pretty this was a joke
@@alexanderlyon well I am sure he just did it for a joke. That was only a joke. it wasn't a compliment.
School leader speech TOMZ! EXICTED IM NOT NERVOUS 😂
I clicked thinking its Benedict cumberbatch
First time I've heard that. I usually hear Jason Bateman. But, I like Cumberbatch. Solid actor.
We cfg uh bio
This is not a gloune sutstue.
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loved it my school speech is going to be great
Hi, Hobo Krang. I hope you crush it. Let me know how it goes.
Did you do good?
How was it?
Sir thank you so much for your help ❤
Thank you for sharing indeed telling a joke that is not appealing to the audience is very risky its better not to try.
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This helps me A bunch! Thank you! You said it so politely too.
I have to make a funny presentation for class and I can't even talk to people. So I'm watching this type of stuff to help me understand how to be funnier because I'm not funny.
Its amazing.....love it😍😍
thank you so much, Alex. You help me so much in my speech.
Awesome, elvis. I'm glad the video helped!
can i ask a que I'm having a persuasive essay about food delivery to school but my problem is i don't know how to make an excellent attention grabber to it can you tell the steps to do it
How was the food presentation ?
EXCELLENT VIDEO!!
How you know that i have presentation after two weeks
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Great. I hope it goes really well for you!
yea me to
Great advice.
I have a speech about the benefits of laughter and smiling and I would like to start with something related to humour can you help me please ✨
I have a school board presentation and I'm trying to add some humor to it, can anyone help me with this?
yes
@@natg7832 Aight how we gonna do this? XD
make a joke I hope u get in lol
good luck hope u get in
Valuable knowledge .thank you .
Plz tell a speech about auto correct has ruined my life(humorous)
Can you tell me if you take classes or something like that?
How to use humour in the academic talks like conferences seminar of PHD, some people tell me you have to be so official.
I really can't decide how to use them specially that I love humour?
Please I need advise Dr. ALEX.
I use humor all of the time in academic talks and settings. But, I just use light humor. I don't tell jokes and try to get a big laugh. I just have a little fun and keep it natural and fitting to the topic.
@@alexanderlyon Thank you so much🙂
I work on scientific project to solve a medical problem, I made my photo as a superhero to solve this problem "to the rescue" and everybody loved it.
Bring it on!!! ...
Lmao
Love the video
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My method isn’t to add a funny intro, for example using your ideas and text in the star wars ccrawl to get a quick laugh.
A shocking way of opening a speech in a dating profile of the single mom's presentation :
" .......... I'm just so perfect the way I am and it's now still so soon from early beginning of the year , I'll stop for a while being someone's baby until I'll give birth to another one by the end of the year ..... "
So you're telling me I shouldn't start my presentations with sweeping yo mamma jokes? 🙃
Correct! You might be surprised how many weird "jokes" I've seen people open with over the years.
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que bueno vid bro, ahora ya no tengo problemas para conquistar morras mi bro. te mereces un like :v XDD
Thnq sir this vedio help me vry well...i got 2 prize
What if its a serious topic like mental health?
Clearly, the opening has to fit the topic. It would not likely be a helpful opening to approach serious topic in a humorous way, at least I personally wouldn't take that risk.
I just started the truth,facts,and keep going. The rest is whatever.
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Steps one have Damon Salvatore's attitude 😂
i have to go give a speech to 3 5th grade classes to get them to join my class
Skip to 2:04🗿
Dear winter I hope u like your name 😂
This is funny
I’m running for SC president and I’m scared help
Way to go HAHAHA
Does anyone have jokes about Mahatma Gandhi? I am doing a presentation about him, and I want to make it funny. It is on Wednesday.
use his funny quote he once said,''First i do the drum,then i do your mum''
@@NS-pu5bd wtf 😂😂
Wtf Hahahaha
N S mehh, you’re little too late..
Why to start with a joke when you are joke yourself
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💯% against telling your own jokes?! How are you suppose to learn? Get pointers thou..just don't agree with this last one ...
Try it. Tell a joke and see how it goes. If it works, then you're funny enough to pull it off. But, I've seen it fail +90% of the time. So, I'm going by looking at thousands of speeches for what works and what doesn't work. I'm not giving my simple opinion. I'm going by all of the presentations I've seen over the past 20 years.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏Sir u r a good speaker so can you give me a speech on topic "entire world is a stage and we are merely actor's"for my school elocution competition which should be a little funny ...(pls answer as early as possible sir)
Ha! No. I don't give topics like that. Sorry. Good luck, though. Sounds interesting.
Ok sir thank you for answering 👍😊
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Find urself talking another's jokes
all you really gotta do is...
"GOOD DAY GOOD DAY YOU BLOODY LEGENDS"
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terrible advice