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Speaker Humor
Delivering Material in Informal Situations Here are a few professional humor tips for the best and safest way to start using humor in your everyday life...
A Humor Observation Test & The Killer Joke Here's a humor observation test...
Using Humor in a Presentation (i.e., Before an Audience) Here are a few professional humor tips for your best and safest way to use humor in your presentations...
Three Basic Rules On Polishing Your Humor for an Audience Here are three basic rules on polishing your humor for an audience...
Should You Use Humor in Your Material Do you need to use humor in your talks?
The First Steps in Adding Humor to Your Presentation Let me give you three major rules of comedy...
Tips on Your Opening lines For the pro - you should have humor in your opening...
Adapt jokes in anticipation of pending events MONTHLY HUMOR CALENDAR:
Best Periodicals for Comedy/Humor Professionals The major aspect of humor is to provide a humorous comment about a universally recognized person, place, or event or shared experience...
Best Two Sources for Humor That You Can Use Without Hesitation Just because a person becomes rich, powerful, and/or influential do they lose their sense of humor?
How to "Ad-lib" with an Audience They think great comedians create funny material spontaneously. This is a misperception of reality...
Changing Jokey Comedy Lines into Business Acceptable Humor When you have a joke that you feel is too jokey, you can often use it in a speaking context by putting it in the subjunctive tense...
Some Tips on Marketing Yourself As a Writer There recently seemed to be an inordinate amount of bickering about the drudgery of marketing...
Some Tips on Marketing Yourself As a Speaker It was a freebie speech, but I took it. Why? Because it put me in front of one of my target markets: speakers at the beginning of their speaking career...
Lessons Learned While Hanging Out with Bob Hope's Head Writer The most perfect customized jokes I've encountered. It is slanted towards his audience but it has three special elements...
The Importance of Likability Being successful as a funny person has not so much to do with your jokes as it does with how much the AUDIENCE likes you...
For Speakers and Entertainers: Your Best Source of New Material One of your best sources of fresh, funny, creative original material is the line that you inadvertently ad-lib while on your way to saying something else...
Your Best Source of New Material - But Beware! This well meaning offer of material can sometimes be a source of good material but it can also be a source of humor that will embarrass you...
Your Best Source of New Material - Adapted to You! Now, following my suggestions in Your Best Source of New Material - But Beware! for evaluating usability of material given to you by audience members, here's what I did...
Transitions & Segues Within a chunk, you ideally try to segue from one joke to another as seamlessly as possible. If you have done a good job, your segues are virtually invisible to the audience...
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 Can You Learn How to Make Humor YOUR Power Tool to Success? - YES!
Dear Aspiring Humorist, Have you ever written some business related communication and wished you had the ability to add humor it? Ever given a presentation and wished you could have inserted humor to lighten up the serious parts? Or maybe you just want to know how to be funny with friends, relatives, and colleagues? Would you like to learn how to be funny on purpose? In other words, would you like to know how to use humor as a tool to increase your visibility, increase others' enjoyment of your communications, and just plain have more fun in general? If you have felt this way but also felt "Humor is a natural gift that some are born with" or if you have made people laugh, but always by spontaneous ad-libbing, then you are in for a revelation. You've probably noticed that a person who has the ability to make people laugh is universally admired. And you may have occasionally felt frustrated that you weren't one of the lucky ones born with the gift of being able to make others laugh at will. Here is good news for you. Humor is a skill. And it is a skill that you can develop. Of course, if you've ever listened to a professional humorist being interviewed, they usually self-analyze their skill along the lines of "I'm just naturally funny." Or the interviewer will mention something to the effect of, "Well, Larry Laughmaker just has a different way of looking at the world than normal people." Or some other quote that seems to indicate some are born funny and the rest of us are out of luck. This is sheer nonsense. Being funny is something that can be learned. Just like you can learn to play golf, you can learn to paint, you can learn to cook - you can learn to be funny. Now it is your innate talent that will determine whether you end up playing golf like Tiger Woods, painting like Michelangelo, or cooking like Julia Childs (or paint like Tiger Woods, cook like Michelangelo, and play golf like Julia Childs). And it is your innate talent that will determine whether you become as funny as Robin Williams or Whoopi Goldberg. But with training, while you might not become a master, you can get to the point where you get regular laughs from friends and you can get consistent laughs when you add a humorous thought or two to your business communications. Experienced, knowledgeable help is finally available from a legendary comedy coach, John Cantu. Cantu started out, like you, as an average person who wanted to learn how to be funny on purpose. With no knowledge, no craft, and very little confidence he faced the roadblocks, hurdles and detours of breaking into humor writing. And he found a way around them. Though he did everything wrong, still he found his humor style. And what Cantu has learned is that being funny on purpose is so much more easier than you think ONCE you learn a few basic techniques. Such as what you will find in the reprints of Cantu's ezines in HumorMall.com InnerSanctum’s STAGE & PLATFORM SKILLS 29 articles like: 1. How to Determine the Best Form of Humor for You Or what you will find in the reprints of Cantu's ezines in HumorMall.com InnerSanctum’s HUMOR WRITING TECHNIQUES 38 articles: 1. Writer's Block? Look Around You and Create "Dear Cantu, I'm just writing to say how much I look forward to and enjoy receiving your Humour helper (sic) every month, thanks for doing it. I am a radio DJ/presenter in the U.K. http://www.Amber.radio.co.uk "I used to cut and paste jokes off the internet to use on my shows but since receiving your humour helper (sic) I have gained more confidence to write my own." keith travis Just imagine if you could talk to some of the country's well-known comedians and pick their brains - if you could ask them what techniques they used to make people laugh and what they have learned about being funny and being natural and being spontaneous. Wouldn't you love to ask them what works and what doesn't work in being funny? And ask them how they actually create a piece of humor that brings together millions? Well Cantu did just that. He produced comedy shows for twenty-six years with some of the biggest names in comedy: Dana Carvey, Will Durst, Kevin Meany, Sue Murphy, Kevin Pollack, Paula Poundstone, Rob Schneider, Jerry Seinfield, Rob Schneider, Bobby Slayton, Carrie Snow, Robin Williams, and dozens more which John writes about in HumorMall.com InnerSanctum’s Backstage Pass: Backstage Secrets and True Confessions of a San Francisco Comedy Club Producer But Cantu also had twenty years coaching non-humor professionals. Cantu was a professional speaker (member of The National Speakers Association), and highly-respected humor coach, who worked with many professional communicators John Cantu simply the best humor coach there is. Besides the above quoted Patricia Fripp, Cantu coached: Malcolm Kushner (Author "The Light Touch"; & "Public Speaking for Dummies"), Stu Silverstein MD (Humorist speaker on medical topics), and Karen Warner (Author "The Bartender's Joke Book," "San Francisco Trivia Book," & "What's So Funny About Being Catholic?"). "Dedicated to John Cantu, the unsung guru of comedy." And now on this web site, SpeakerHumor.com you can sample John's ezine articles with these 21 free Power Humor Tips. John shares with you his basic humor techniques that you can use in a wide variety of mediums and these free tips will take years off your humor learning curve. But think how much more you will progress with access to ALL of John Cantu's Comedy Wit & Humor Wisdom in ALL of John's ezines available by subscription to HumorMall.com's InnerSanctum. In HumorMall.com's InnerSanctum you can get all the benefits of John Cantu's nearly thirty years of real-world experience, Years of learned wisdom distilled into easy to understand and simple to apply principles. Like in PRACTICAL EXAMPLES OF HUMOR TECHNIQUES: • Writing entertaining and realistic dialogue And while the majority of the articles in HumorMall.com's InnerSanctum are slanted towards creating humor for business presentations, you'll learn fundamental humor techniques that can be used in other media. Not only has Cantu been a performer, he has also written a variety of humor for many markets. Want proof? Cantu has: Sold filler material to "Catholic Digest," "Changing Times," "Reader's Digest," "Saturday Evening Post," . . . Written cartoon ideas for "Ziggy," "Marmaduke," "Frank N' Ernest"; "The Lockhorns," . . . Written greeting card ideas for Papermoon Graphics; Portal Publications, Curtis-Swann. And he has written humor columns and added humor to a variety of business collateral literature for dozens of clients. With a subscription to HumorMall.com's InnerSanctum you'll learn the easy way what Cantu learned the hard way through years of writing, editing, selling. Cantu has also written extensively about the principle of humor. The contents of HumorMall.com's InnerSanctum is considered by many humor pros as a mini-humor school in and of itself. Here in SpeakerHumor.com you will find tips, techniques, and inside info never offered in any other humor how-to book you've read or a humor lecture you've attended. And all for FREE! So just think how many more tips, techniques, and inside info you will find in the nearly 200 articles already available with a subscription to HumorMall.com's InnerSanctum. And much more is going to be added - including video taped speeches John gave on how to be humorous without looking, feeling or sounding foolish. "Cantu, thanks a million for helping me polish my opener - I couldn't have done it without your help. You certainly are one of the reasons why ours is the "Greatest Chapter in the Universe!" Roseann Sullivan, referring to her opening presentation as the incoming president of the National Speakers Association, Northern California Chapter. Most professional funny people -- including those who already have positions in the entertainment industry -- don't have a grasp of what it is that they do to make people laugh. In SpeakerHumor.com and HumorMall.com's InnerSanctum, you'll get the real story, the whole story, the inside story -the result of years of working with top comics and top speakers. "Cantu's has analyzed comedy more than any other writer I know." And because you will have at hand things most people don't know, even the hardest parts of being funny on purpose will become easier for you. No matter how unfunny you feel or how badly you have done it up to now, there is success just around the corner. Just ponder this important fact - The hardest part of being funny usually isn't coming up with the jokes. That bit of advice is just a sample of the type of helpful and DETAILED how-to information contained in SpeakerHumor.com and HumorMall.com's InnerSanctum. We are focused on helping YOU become funny, step by step. Learn how to apply your natural funniness in various situations. And how to boost your natural funny bone at those times when you didn't feel funny or inspired. While SpeakerHumor.com and HumorMall.com's InnerSanctum is the perfect opportunity for the uninitiated to learn how to approach the business, even established writers, comedians, humor writers, actors, magicians ventriloquists, and even writers from"non-funny" writing disciplines subscribe to HumorMall.com's InnerSanctum. Whatever your level, Cantu's Comedy Wit and Humor Wisdom can show you how to be funnier - faster. Whether you want to hone your creative talents, master the keys to adding humor to your business presentations or speeches, developing humor writing and platform/stage skills or just being funnier in everyday life, HumorMall.com's InnerSanctum will help you. Don't miss out. Subscribe today! THIS COULD BE YOUR STORY: "Dear John, Just have to thank you for all the humor insight you've given me. At my last performance of "Tales from the Table; 25 Years: 6,000 Naked Bodies," I went bold and tried some humor. Success, thanks to you. I timed my 2 "humor runs." The first one was 6 laughs in 44 seconds, and the second one was 6 laughs in 54 seconds. Yeeha! Onward and upward. Thanks, Cathy" (Cathy Dana's presentation is based on her experiences as a professional masseuse.)
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