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    This document outlines the criteria for several humor-focused speech projects. It provides instructions for four projects that require incorporating humor in different ways: 1) Beginning a speech with a humorous story tied to the topic. 2) Beginning and ending a speech with humorous stories tied to the serious message. 3) Beginning a speech with humorous stories and including jokes throughout to emphasize points. 4) Beginning with a self-deprecating joke, including several joke sets, and ending with a humorous story. All projects require rehearsing delivery of stories and jokes to be smooth and effortless.

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    Humor Speaking

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    This document outlines the criteria for several humor-focused speech projects. It provides instructions for four projects that require incorporating humor in different ways: 1) Beginning a speech with a humorous story tied to the topic. 2) Beginning and ending a speech with humorous stories tied to the serious message. 3) Beginning a speech with humorous stories and including jokes throughout to emphasize points. 4) Beginning with a self-deprecating joke, including several joke sets, and ending with a humorous story. All projects require rehearsing delivery of stories and jokes to be smooth and effortless.

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    Toastmaster Humorously Speaking Project Speech Criteria

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    This document outlines the criteria for several humor-focused speech projects. It provides instructions for four projects that require incorporating humor in different ways: 1) Beginning a speech with a humorous story tied to the topic. 2) Beginning and ending a speech with humorous stories tied to the serious message. 3) Beginning a speech with humorous stories and including jokes throughout to emphasize points. 4) Beginning with a self-deprecating joke, including several joke sets, and ending with a humorous story. All projects require rehearsing delivery of stories and jokes to be smooth and effortless.

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    Humor Speaking

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    Jean Evans Pierre
    This document outlines the criteria for several humor-focused speech projects. It provides instructions for four projects that require incorporating humor in different ways: 1) Beginning a speech with a humorous story tied to the topic. 2) Beginning and ending a speech with humorous stories tied to the serious message. 3) Beginning a speech with humorous stories and including jokes throughout to emphasize points. 4) Beginning with a self-deprecating joke, including several joke sets, and ending with a humorous story. All projects require rehearsing delivery of stories and jokes to be smooth and effortless.

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    Humorously Speaking

    Project Speech Criteria

    Warm Up Your Audience

    For this project, you will prepare and present a five- to seven-minute speech that
    begins with a humorous story. You may choose any speech topic you wish;
    however, your opening humorous story should tie into the subject. Although you
    may base your story on an actual personal experience, you may wish instead to
    use one from your “Humor File.” Be sure to “personalize” the story. Rehearse
    until you can deliver the story smoothly and effortlessly, paying careful attention
    to pauses, the punch line, and the punch word.

    Leave Them With A Smile

    For this project, you will prepare and present a five- to seven-minute speech that
    begins and ends with a humorous story. Choose any speech topic you wish, but
    your speech should contain a serious message. The opening humorous story
    should tie into the subject and the closing humorous story should reemphasize
    the main point of your speech. Although you may base your story on an actual
    personal experience, you may wish instead to use one from your “Humor File.”
    Be sure to “personalize” the story. Rehearse until you can deliver the story
    smoothly and effortlessly, paying careful attention to the set-up, the pause before
    the punch line, the punch line, the punch word, and the ending pause.

    Make Them Laugh

    For this project, you will prepare and present a five- to seven-minute speech that
    begins with humorous stories and has several jokes throughout the speech body.
    You may choose any speech topic you wish. Your opening humorous story
    should tie into the subject. The jokes should emphasize points and/or break up
    tedious or complex parts of the speech. The closing humorous story should
    reemphasize the main point of your speech. You may base your stories and
    jokes on actual person experiences or use stories and jokes from other sources.
    Rehearse until you can deliver the stories and jokes smoothly and effortlessly,
    paying careful attention to the set-ups, pauses before the punch lines, punch
    words and ending pauses.

    Keep Them Laughing

    For this project, you will prepare and present a five- to seven-minute speech that:
    • Begins with a self-deprecating joke
    • Has at least two sets of jokes in the speech body, with each set composed
    of several jokes, and
    • Ends with a humorous story

    You may choose any speech topic you wish. Each set of jokes should
    emphasize points and/or break up tedious or complex parts of the speech. The
    closing humorous story should reemphasize the main point of your speech. You
    may base your stories and jokes on actual personal experiences or use stories
    and jokes from other sources. Rehearse until you can deliver the story smoothly
    and effortlessly, paying careful attention to the set-up, the pause before the
    punch line, the punch line, the punch word, and the ending pause.

    The Humorous Speech

    For this project, you will prepare and present a five- to seven-minute humorous
    speech. The speech’s primary purpose is to entertain the audience. The speech
    should have one theme or subject, with humor about that subject. The speech
    should have a point, but the point is not the speech’s main purpose. The humor
    should come from exaggeration of events. Use body language and voice to
    enhance and dramatize the speech.

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