When They Do Not Laugh - What Do You Do?

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Public Speaking
Tags:
John Kinde,
Surprise
Source:
John Kinde's Humor Power

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Overview: The eyes of your audience are fixed on you. You deliver your best new humor line. They stare at you in silence. It has happened to all of us. It will happen again. What do you do? The conventional wisdom from experienced professional speakers is valid. Pretend you were serious. Humor, properly delivered, should be a surprise. If you told them a joke was coming (telegraphed your punchline), you probably did it wrong. Delivered properly, since it was a surprise, they didn't know it was supposed to be funny.

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Format: HTML | Date: Jan 2008 | Pages: 3

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