Humourous Speech Contest … everything you wanted to know but were too afraid to ask.

Humourous Speech Contest

… everything you wanted to know but were too afraid to ask


Why Have it?• One of 4 contests

– International– Evaluation– Humourous– Table Topics

• Part of the reason you joined Toastmasters– Personal Growth


Who Can Compete

The Rules


Who Can Compete Club must be of good standing

The Rules


Who Can Compete Club must be of good standing District officers ineligible Judges in other contests at same level ineligible Multiple club members can only represent 1

club Member must be of good standing Complete the required form Be here in person

The Rules


The Rules

The Speech Itself

Avoid objectionable material

More than 4min 30, less than 7 min 30

Must be original

Follow BME rule


Judging Criteria• Content – 50%

– Speech development, effectiveness, value, audience response

• Delivery – 30%– Physical voice manner

• Language – 20%– Appropriateness, correctness

The Rules


The Rewards

A certificate

Details published on the web site

Honour of representing Northrise in area contest

Personal Rewards


The Ruleshttp://www.toastmasters.org/fupload/media/IntlSpeechContestRules.pdf

• More details published on the web site

http://www.toastmasters.org/fupload/media/IntlSpeechContestRules.pdf

Who Can Do It• Anyone – just takes umph• Last years winner was on 3rd,

runner up on 4th

• Can do it as part of a manual speech• Newbies or

• Old Codgers


Tips to Get You Started

• Remember the judging criteria• "Content" = 50% "Delivery" = 30% "Language" = 20%

• Don’t follow the Cunard principle

• Tell a story

• Humour is for your audience – not you

• It’s all in the timing – so rehearse



Themes that work

• Do the opposite– Tongue in cheek approach

• Play it straight– But to the extreme

• Recount a story– The Bill Cosby approach


Themes that work

• Play with words– Jeremy’s classics

• Discover the Seed of Truth– Make it a great speech – and be frivolous


More Tips• Don’t Step on the Laughter

– Laughter is good - count … to 6-7

• Rule of Three– Make it a great speech – and be frivolous

• Save the best for last– The rule of recency

Using Humour

Vary the Jokes and humour – Physical humour

– malaprops – spoonerisms

– exaggeration– put-downs,

– sarcasm, – oxymorons

– irony and others.



Final Pointers

• Watch the clock

• Build time in for the audience

• Test & Measure

Final Pointers

• Watch the clock

• Build time in for the audience

• Test & Measure

• Go For GOLD &

J D IHumourous Speech

Contest

Humourous Speech Contest … everything you wanted to know but were too afraid to ask.

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