Humourous Speech Contest everything you wanted to know

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 Humourous Speech Contest

The Rules Who Can Compete Humourous Speech Contest

The Rules Who Can Compete ü Club must be of good standing Humourous Speech Contest

The Rules Who Can Compete ü û û ü 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 ü Member must be of good standing ü Complete the required form ü Be here in person Humourous Speech Contest

The Rules The Speech Itself û Avoid objectionable material ü More than 4 min 30, less than 7 min 30 ü Must be original ü Follow BME rule Humourous Speech Contest

The Rules Judging Criteria • Content – 50% – Speech development, effectiveness, value, audience response • Delivery – 30% – Physical voice manner • Language – 20% – Appropriateness, correctness Humourous Speech Contest

The Rewards A certificate Details published on the web site Honour of representing Northrise in area contest Personal Rewards Humourous Speech Contest

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Who Can Do It • Anyone – just takes umph • Last years winner was on 3 rd, runner up on 4 th • Can do it as part of a manual speech • Newbies or • Old Codgers Humourous Speech Contest

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 Humourous Speech Contest

Themes that work • Do the opposite – Tongue in cheek approach • Play it straight – But to the extreme • Recount a story – The Bill Cosby approach Humourous Speech Contest

Themes that work • Play with words – Jeremy’s classics • Discover the Seed of Truth – Make it a great speech – and be frivolous Humourous Speech Contest

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 Humourous Speech Contest

Using Humour Vary the Jokes and humour – Physical humour – malaprops – spoonerisms – exaggeration – put-downs, – sarcasm, – oxymorons – irony and others. Humourous Speech Contest

Final Pointers • Watch the clock • Build time in for the audience • Test & Measure Humourous Speech Contest

Final Pointers • Watch the clock • Build time in for the audience • Test & Measure • Go For GOLD & JDI Humourous Speech Contest