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Funny Speeches: Humor Speaks for Itself
Funny Speeches: Appropriate to Audience
Funny Speeches: Vulgarity
Funny Speeches: Evaluate the Situation
Funny Speeches: Culture
Funny Speeches: Practice Humor
Funny Speeches: When Jokes Bomb
Funny Speeches: Offensive Jokes
Funny Speeches: Personal Style
Funny Speeches: Brevity
Funny Speeches: Spontaneity
Funny Speeches: Making Fun of Yourself
Funny Speeches: Balance
Funny Speeches: Relevance
Funny Speeches: Telegraphed Humor
Funny Speeches: Eye Contact
Funny Speeches: Retort When Jokes Bomb
Funny Speeches: Special Occasions
Summary: Some special occasion speeches call for a lot of humor. For example, toasts at weddings, retirement parties, and birthdays. Learn how to give a funny speech from professional speaker and communications instructor Tracy Goodwin in this free public speaking video.
Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is a college professor of...read more
"Now I told you that in the last clip that you want to not make humor a huge part of your speech. I want to add something to that. It is possible in special occasions speeches that you will use a great deal of humor. And when I'm talking about special occasions speeches. I'm talking about a birthday speech, a retirement speech, the toast from the bride's maid at the wedding, the toast from the groom's men at the wedding. Because those speeches are comprised of stories and funny stories about the person that you're toasting. So it's okay if half or three quarters of those speeches are humorous. That's the only time and place in speech giving where it's okay. The only speech occasion speech that probably do not want to use humor in but it depends on the person is a urology."
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