Speaking of Funny: 77 Ways to Add Humor to Any Presentation
By David Glickman and Dave Barry
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Finally, a book that gives practical, precise and proven ways to add humor to any presentation. Author and award-winning humorist David Glickman has successfully used every one of these techniques to get big laughs from audiences—and now you can, too. You'll discover dozens of innovative and creative methods to make any presentation funnier. And the best part is how surprisingly easy they are to do!
Learn how to:
--Get big laughs in the first few seconds (and why that is so important)
--Set up your speaking environment for maximum laughter
--Know what's genuinely funny
--Easily customize humor for your specific audience (Because the more specific the humor, the more terrific the humor—you'll learn why.)
--And much, much more
This book will show you incredibly creative ways to add humor to your:
Employee Meeting—Keynote Speech—PowerPoint Presentation—Sales Pitch—TED Talk—Congratulatory Toast—Project Report—Campaign Speech—Product Launch—Tribute—Acceptance Speech—Opening Argument—Eulogy (well, not your eulogy)—and any other occasion where you are in front of an audience
When you stand in front of an audience, you only have one chance to make an impression on them. One chance to make that presentation memorable and powerful and significant.
And no matter how good your presentation and preparation might be, if that message doesn't have some entertainment value to it, it will likely get lost in the multitude of distractions you're up against.
And even if you do have the audience's undivided attention, if your talk doesn't have some entertainment value, your impact—at best—will be non-existent. And—at worst—it will mark you with the reputation as a really boring speaker.
The easiest, most efficient, and most effective way to add entertainment value to any presentation is with humor. And that is exactly why the book "Speaking Of Funny" was written. With (actually more than) 77 Ways To Add Humor To Any Presentation, you will never have a shortage of strategies to get any audience laughing, anytime, anywhere.
This innovative book details many easy ways to add customized and relevant and appropriate humor into your next presentation—humor that will not only have your audience laughing, but also listening and learning.
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Speaking of Funny - David Glickman
And now here’s someone who needs no introduction
—Yes, they do!
Any time you are making a presentation—even if it’s only to a few people—get someone to introduce you. Even if you have to recruit an audience member to do it, arrange with someone before you begin your presentation to do you the honors.
Have your introduction typed out, double-spaced in a large font. Often you are able to pre-arrange your introducer with enough lead-time so that you can send them your introduction long before the date of the presentation. (Of course, always bring a backup copy with you—the introducer may have forgotten it, lost it, or simply not shown up!)
Why do you want to be introduced if you’re only addressing a group of ten people around a boardroom table? Because it sets the stage that you are, indeed, presenting
to them—that this is not just another boring speech.
An introduction says it’s show time!
And if you’re going to use some of the other 76 tips that follow this one, you must set the stage to be funny.
An introduction helps do that.
We’ve been conditioned to hear entertainers being introduced.
We’ve been conditioned to applaud as an introduction ends with the words, Please welcome Joe Smith!
If you want to get an audience laughing, from now on you must think of yourself as an entertainer every time you address an audience—even a small audience.
An introduction should not be long. Actually, the shorter, the better. Honestly, nobody really cares about all of your awards and degrees and what you’ve written and what you’ve done. Even the aura of a celebrity wears off real fast if their presentation isn’t entertaining. Audiences judge you solely on what comes out of your mouth—right now.
If the audience is talking, distracted, or milling around, the introducer should take as much time as needed to get everyone’s attention, and get them settled, before beginning your introduction. This may take an extra minute or two, but it’s well worth it! I’ve seen too many introducers just barrel through the speaker’s intro, while the audience members were still standing and chatting with each