Using Offbeat Definitions to Add Humor to Your Speech

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The most common question I hear from novice speakers is,

"How can I add some humor to my speech?"

One of the easiest and most effective ways is to go the Internet and find a funny definition that relates to your topic, and then share it with your audience.

There are tons of free sources of humor on the Internet. One  of my favorites is Tom Antion's website. Tom is a professional speaker and well known presentation skills trainer.

To visit his humor section, click on Tom Antion's Speech Humor.

Here are a few samples.

Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

Mouse Potato: The online, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

Swiped Out: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use. (And it only happens when you only have $.23 cents in your wallet).

Tom offers hundreds of funny definitions, quotations, poems and other humor vehicles you can use in your speeches and presentations. Best of all, they're broken down by category, alphabetically, so you can find what you're
looking for quickly and easily.

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Related article: How to Make a Funny Speech. Also see Speech Bloopers.

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