Public Speaking - Speech Hiumor

Humor can quickly gain a public speaking audience's attention. Your public speaking speech can benefit from adding it.

Make the stories relevant to your speech and appropriate to the audience e.g. a sales conference audience will appreciate different humor to a church minister's conference.

Make the stories relevant to your speech and appropriate to the audience. Plan the "spice" in your speech. Most TV and radio performers follow their scripts so closely there is not even room for an "ad lib" sneeze.

Humor is an important tool in gaining and keeping a public speaking audience's attention and can be applied by anyone with the desire to develop the art. In summary, memorize and practice, tell the right story at the right time, be prepared, and gather a fund of stories.