Public Speaking Jobs
Are you laughing and having fun in your public speaking job ? Do you love to make other people laugh? Timing is an indispensable quality of all performances and especially in your public speaking jobs, and is so essential in all the conversational arts. For comedians, timing is the sine qua non (“without which is nothing”), and there is no faster way to build this art than by watching others do it well. I study comedians because we share a similar profession as public speakers- we are entertainers.They say it’s harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry.
So, whenever I get a chance, I visit the local comedy clubs. My purpose is not so much to steal jokes (though I confess to having “borrowed” a few), or even to have some good laughs (though have them I usually do). I’m there to study how a comedian makes an audience laugh or, if he bombs, to discover why he fails. I want to observe how he develops rapport and how he establishes mood and intimacy with the audience. I’m even interested in what they do after a joke bombs. I think of Rodney Dangerfield’s, “It’s murder up here, I tell ya’.” Special notice is focused on their presentation techniques: hand gestures, facial gestures, volume shifts and, most of all, the timing.