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I am pretty funny guy. You know how I know I am funny guy, because my 2 year old thinks
I am hilarious. All I have to do is pullover or drop something or jump and he is in his
derrieres and laughing his head off, and he thinks I am funniest guy in the world. My
friends have a young baby who canÕt even sit up yet and he thinks I am funniest guy
in the world because all I have to do is put my hands on my face and say Piki Boo and he
is in his derrieres. So I must be pretty funny. So when I get up in front of people, I just
going to play Piki Boo or full over and have the audience in tears of laughter. Not going
to happen, but today I do want to talk about, how to make your own funny public speaking
jokes, because I do believe that lot of the jokes that people are using jokes of the internet,
jokes on their own, just arenÕt very funny. They are very corny and they are very awkward
for the audience. A joke is very important, when placed in public
speech, because it needs to work, and if it fails, you need to have a backup system, so
that it doesnÕt create this awkward hole of empty laughter. Okay, I am Ryan McLean
and I am from public speakingpower.com. So how can we create our own funny joke, especially
if it not funny. That what i m. So, why is a that might two year old laughs at me, when
I fall over or want to drop something and why is that six month baby laugh at me when
I play Piki Boo. ItÕs because something happens that they
werenÕt expecting. Lot of our laughter, a lot of commonly come out of people seeing,
people doing things that are unexpected. This makes a connection between two items that
we didnÕt think of. I was recently, just watching, I was doing some research for the
blog and also can the worst public speeches ever and those one that the kid has posted
on Youtube of his graduation speech which was actually pretty good, he used lot of humour
in his speech and he was very clever in humour that he used. In the speech he was talking
about his heroes, people like Einstein, people like Martin Luther King Jr., and then he goes
on to say Tupac and Barney,Êthe purpleÊdinosaur, so we are thinking he is giving his inspirational
speech but then he throws in funny characters at the end ,the rapper and purple dinosaur
that you watched as kids. Its unexpected when you are talking about
Albert Einstein, Martin Luther Jr. You expect him to go on and talk about other heroes.
May be people who have done amazing things in life or in science, but instead he goes
on just talk about the public speakers that we all know and we know wonÕt really be heroes.
ItÕs unexpected and so therefore itÕs quite humorous. So what you can do, if you want
to create your own funny public speaking jokes, is to tell a story but within unexpected and
humorous outcome. So thatÕs one way, that we can create funny public speeches, funny
jokes in our public speeches, itÕs not necessarily a joke. Knock! Knock! Who is there? but itÕs
a story that gains laughter. So whenever you are telling a story, try and think of ways
that you can add in things that are unexpected to the audience, so that you may be get some
laughter. Add of them. Another thing to do is to make a joke on your own expense. I always
advice against making jokes at other peopleÕs expense, when you giving a public speech or
presentation, specially people who are in the room, donÕt make jokes on your companyÕs
expense, because more often or not people will take offence. One of my mentors made
this mistake massively. He was a youth Paster at the church I used to go to and we have
a big youth event, big youth night, we were over 300 kids came, that was bring a friend
night and so he is up in front of the people and he is speaking to the audience and he
starts ripping into Anthony Mundine who is a Australian Rugby league player who has turned
into a boxer. Some people love him, other people hate him but anyway he is ripping into
him, he is making fun of this guy. Anthony Mundine wasnÕt there but his cousin, one
of the girls who had attended for the first time, that night was there and so obliviously,
even though the situation wasnÕt awkward to everyone else obliviously after the fact
he found out that she was there, it was very awkward for him. So always avoid offending
other people, but making fun on your own expense is always a great thing to do. If you laugh,
then other people will laugh at you. I advice as well that you make jokes as passing comments.
Okay, so rather than making a joke and waiting for laughter, make a joke but have a way to
roll on for that joke. So people laugh then you can stop and you can let them laugh but
if people donÕt laugh you donÕt have that awkward silence that kills your speech. So
try and do it as a rolling comment, try and have something that flows off to your joke
that even if your joke fails it going to work as your back up system and it means that still
adds value to your talk. Anyway, and lastly make your jokes relatable, so make a relatable
to the people in the audience, so they can kind of relate with the situation, so if you
are a high school student, graduating then tell jokes that things that you did and you
think you do during your high school. DonÕt tell jokes about things that are in your personnel
life that they donÕt have any connection with. If there is already that reliability,
if a person already understands that situation, then if you put a comical aspect for that
situation then it can be much more humorous. So, hope that this has helped to give you
some ideas that how you can create your own funny jokes when you are giving a public speech.
I am Ryan McLean. I am from publicspeakingpower.com and you can get more videos, audios and broadcast
like this just by hitting over to the website.