1. Warm Up Your Audience
Objectives
- Prepare a speech that opens with a humorous story
- Personalize the story
- Deliver the story smoothly and effectively
- Time: 5-7 minutes
2. Leave Them with a Smile
Objectives
- Prepare a serious speech that opens and closes with a humorous story.
- Prepare a closing story that reemphasizes the speech’s main point.
- Deliver the stories smoothly and effectively
- Time: 5-7 minutes
3. Make Them Laugh
Objectives
- Prepare a speech that opens and closes with humorous stories
- Include jokes in the speech body to illustrate points or maintain audience interest
- Deliver the jokes and stories smoothly and effectively
- Time: 5-7 minutes
4. Keep Them Laughing
Objectives
- Prepare a speech that opens with a self-deprecating joke.
- String together two or three related jokes in the speech body.
- Close the speech with a humorous story.
- Time: 5-7 minutes
5. The Humorous Speech
Objectives
- Use exaggeration to tell a humorous story.
- Entertain the audience.
- Effectively use body language and voice to enhance the story.
- Time: 5-7 minutes