humourous speech contest … everything you wanted to know but were too afraid to ask
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Humourous Speech Contest
… everything you wanted to know but were too afraid to ask
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Humourous Speech Contest
Why Have it?• One of 4 contests
– International– Evaluation– Humourous– Table Topics
• Part of the reason you joined Toastmasters– Personal Growth
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Humourous Speech Contest
Who Can Compete
The Rules
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Humourous Speech Contest
Who Can Compete Club must be of good standing
The Rules
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Humourous Speech Contest
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
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Humourous Speech Contest
The Rules
The Speech Itself
Avoid objectionable material
More than 4min 30, less than 7 min 30
Must be original
Follow BME rule
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Humourous Speech Contest
Judging Criteria• Content – 50%
– Speech development, effectiveness, value, audience response
• Delivery – 30%– Physical voice manner
• Language – 20%– Appropriateness, correctness
The Rules
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Humourous Speech Contest
The Rewards
A certificate
Details published on the web site
Honour of representing Northrise in area contest
Personal Rewards
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Humourous Speech Contest
The Ruleshttp://www.toastmasters.org/fupload/media/IntlSpeechContestRules.pdf
• More details published on the web site
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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
Humourous Speech Contest
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Using Humour
Vary the Jokes and humour – Physical humour
– malaprops – spoonerisms
– exaggeration– put-downs,
– sarcasm, – oxymorons
– irony and others.
Humourous Speech Contest
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Humourous Speech Contest
Final Pointers
• Watch the clock
• Build time in for the audience
• Test & Measure
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Final Pointers
• Watch the clock
• Build time in for the audience
• Test & Measure
• Go For GOLD &
J D IHumourous Speech
Contest