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Use Humor to Spice Up Your Next Speech
Honing the Delivery
Make sure your choose humor is funny to you. First practice with small groups of people. Pay attention to the way your are delivering the joke or quip.
Only use humor in a speech after you are comfortable telling it from memory and have tested it.
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Anyone can use humor
Appropriate humor relaxes an audience and makes them feel more comfortable with you as the speaker.
Humor can bring attention to the point you are making and help the audience better remember it.
Developing Anecdotes
The best and most comfortable place to find humor comes from your own personal experience.
Jot down funny ideas as you come across it that might appeal to your audience - an embarrassing moment that you might not have found funny at the time, or a funny conversation you had.
Honing the Delivery
Make sure your choose humor is funny to you. First practice with small groups of people. Pay attention to the way your are delivering the joke or quip.
Only use humor in a speech after you are comfortable telling it from memory and have tested it.
Potential Misfires
Look pleasant and smile as you launch into your funny line, but if no one smiles or laughs, then just move on as though you meant for it to be serious.
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The humor effect defined
The use of humor enhances people’s
Benefits of incorporating humor into learning
- Humorous information receives increased attention during the perception stage.
- Improved encoding. Our brain gives preferential treatment to humorous information when it comes to storing it in our memory.
- The use of humor serves as a distraction from negative emotions, such as anger or anxiety, that people might experience when processing certain information.
- Reading or viewing something humorous has a positive and energizing effect.
- Adding humor to the information that you are presenting can make it more interesting to others.
Different types of humor lead to different outcomes
The use of positive, nonaggressive humor is associated with
- improved learning outcomes,
- a relaxed learning environment,
- better student evaluations,
- an increased motivation to learn,
- improved information recall,
- an increased degree of student satisfaction throughout the learning process.
The use of negative or aggressive humor, especially if aimed at particular students, will produce the opposite effect.
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