Pub comm session 6 using humor
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This document provides tips for using humor in speeches. It notes that humor can make audiences more relaxed and comfortable, help get your point across, and make your speech more memorable. It recommends using personal anecdotes or stories from your own life as humor, connecting the humor to your topic, keeping it short, rehearsing, and using humor you find in everyday situations while avoiding sensitive topics or introducing the punchline directly.
Pub comm session 6 using humor
- 1. Humor 101 Using humor in your speeches
- 2. Benefits Audience more relaxed and comfortable Attention brought to your point Speech - more memorable
- 3. Tips Use a personal anecdote (Humor is simply tragedy separated by time and space.) Use a guinea pig first (small audience) Connect it with your topic Keep it short Find humor in situations around you Avoid introducing the punchline or funny story Avoid sensitive topics Rehearse Use a cartoon to lessen your responsibility