How To Find & Use Humor When Speaking

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The Speaker Lab

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🗓️ 1 March 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

One of the most intimidating aspects of speaking is humor. If you're like other speakers you may find it daunting to incorporate jokes into your talk.

The biggest risk with jokes or humorous stories is the lack of guarantees the audience will enjoy it. However, when used appropriately humor can magnify a talk and convey your message perfectly!

Today, I'll be showing you how to utilize humor the best way for you and your speaking style. Listen in to hear all of that and so much more on this episode of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW

Why is your audience a reflection of you as the speaker?
What is self-depreciating humor and how can you use it correctly?
The importance of using pictures and videos to enhance humor.
How can you "have your radar up" for humorous material?
What are the most effective strategies for incorporating humor?
How to avoid using "you had to be there" stories, and why they don't work.
How to move on gracefully from a failed joke.
And much, much more!

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0:48.4	here from the Speaker Lab podcast. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Good to have you here. Hope you're doing
0:52.9	well. Hope life is treating you good. All right, we are on episode 19 today. We are going to be talking all about a, a, welcome, welcome. Good to have you here. Hope you're doing well. Hope life is treating you good.
0:54.8	All right, we are on episode 19 today. We are going to be talking all about a subject that is really,
0:59.5	really important for speakers to have in their toolbox or in their arsenal. And yet, it's the type of
1:05.0	subject or topic that a lot of speakers are nervous about. They're intimidated by. But we're going to
1:09.7	try to make this as simple as possible today. Today we're going to be talking by, but we're going to try to make this as simple as
1:11.0	possible today. Today we're going to be talking about humor. We're going to be talking about
1:15.4	jokes and comedy and how to incorporate that into your speaking. So whether you are someone
1:21.1	who uses humor, you don't think of yourself as funny, like whatever you may be on your
1:26.3	speaking journey and using comedy as part of it, we're going to make this really simple for you. So we're going to be talking about why humor matters, why it's important. We're going to be talking about how to find and use humor. And then we're also going to be talking about some different strategies around humor, how you can incorporate it into your talk. And then just some things that you should do if humor works. Sometimes it doesn't work there's times where you try something and it just bombs that's happened to me before and so
1:48.9	what you think is going to be some type of laugh or reaction you're met with crickets and awkward
1:54.0	silence and it sucks and but it happens and so we're going to be talking about humor and how to
1:59.3	interject some humor into your
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