June 2016 magazine had a beautiful article called “Comedy
Connections”. Four funny people from different professions have given their
valuable tips about delivering an effective humorous speech
How a humorous speech
should look like?
1.
Do not take the jokes from online or books.
Instead use truthful anecdotes
2.
Let it not be offensive. If you are not a woman
don’t make fun of women. If you are not an athlete do not make fun of athletes
3.
Humour is built on timing and on the unexpected.
Go with your own style of humour, body language and reflexes instead of
building a library.
4.
Humour is challenging and can easily upset
people. Self-deprecating humour works well because, you are putting yourself
down so people will feel better about themselves.
When your jokes don’t
work:
1.
Keep going
2.
They suggest a few recovery phrases to make fun
of yourself and light the mood:
“I should stop buying jokes from jokes.com”
“It seemed funny when I wrote it”
“You people are going to get this joke and
laugh tomorrow morning”
3.
Do not blame the audience. Accept that you have
not done the homework of knowing your audience.
4.
Best comedians learn from failures and create
changes as needed.
Quotes the phrase, “A bad joke deserves a
good autopsy”
Dealing with hecklers
1.
Owen lean a street performer had a person making
fun of him during his performance. He spontaneously said “Ladies and gentlemen
he is my uncle. I locked him in a car before coming. The person said, “Hi
nephew nice to see you again” and then he kept quiet for the rest of the show.
Audience body
language
1.
Just because people aren’t laughing doesn’t mean
that you are bombing. Some express it with a smile. Sometimes it is difficult
to predict.
2.
People with folded arms is not a good sign
3.
Be sincere with your audience and they will
embrace you in the end
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