Funny Public Keynote Speaker
You’ve got to be having fun in your public speaking job. Do you love to laugh? Do you love to make other people laugh? I love to watch comedy on T.V, film and live. I study comedians because we share a similar profession as public speakers- we are entertainers.They say it’s harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. So, whenever I get a chance, I visit the local comedy clubs. My purpose is not so much to
steal jokes (though I confess to having “borrowed” a few), or even to have some good laughs (though have them I usually do). I’m there to study how a comedian makes an audience laugh or, if he fails, to discover why he fails. I want to observe how he develops rapport and how he establishes mood and intimacy with the audience. I’m even interested in what they do after a joke bombs. I think of Rodney Dangerfield’s, “It’s
murder up here, I tell ya’.” Special attention is focused on their techniques: hand
gestures, facial gestures, volume shifts and, most of all, timing.