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Public Speaking Training: Public Speaking Workshop Tips for Using Humor in Public Speaking
Fun on stage is one of the best parts of public speaking, as it not only amuses your audience but it helps you relax and form a connection with your public through humor.
The main thing here is that if you can be funny, you are surely doing great when public speaking. We have the tendency to take ourselves and the public speaking situations around us far more seriously than they really are. This seriousness is translated into stiffness, nervousness and a difficulty to bond with the people listening to you.
You can be humorous and funny even at the most serious scenarios. This will help you ease and soften the serious public speaking atmosphere around you and your public. What we are looking through humor is to cause good sensations in others, as well as making them feel better about you and themselves. This should always be your main aim if you are trying to be funny at stage.
Being funny does not necessarily mean you have to be silly, or to be telling jokes all the time. Being funny means that you provide a calmed and laughable public speaking speech for your public to enjoy and remember.
There are a lot of public speaking resources you can use to be funny, and this is a matter of common sense, and above all, not offending anyone, either present and listening to you or not. As the style of humor will change from person to person and will be different in every scenario you are into, we will talk about some general things you should have in mind if trying to be humorous.
The good old jokes tend to work in the majority of scenarios, with the majority of audiences (This is why they're good and old!).
Avoid jokes that are or may seem racists, sexists, violent, blacks, pornographic, etc.
Emulate funny and successful speakers and try to do what they do.
Remember to smile! If you are telling a joke, or trying to be funny, let them know about it.
A good public speaking strategy is also to put complex terms into simple analogies. For example: let's say you have to talk the buffalo mating habits. If you say the male buffalo ask the female buffalo out, and then they have a drink at the Jungle Bar (the mating ritual), you will be explaining your point in a funny, harmless and silly way that everyone can understand. Use your imagination!
By relaxing yourself before public speaking, you will feel more like telling some jokes, doing funny analogies and the like. Remember, don't take you so seriously. Instead, try to enjoy the public speaking situation a bit more, to relax a bit more and to be a bit funnier, without over thinking what you are about to do and say.
Reality is that some will laugh at your jokes, some won't and some will not understand them. If you are having a good time, who cares? Just stick to your public speaking speech, once done leave some space to improvise and let your funny speaker out of the cage!
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