Public Speaking Course:
One-Liners
The term one-liner is pretty self explanatory. It means a joke or piece of
humor that is just one sentence or line. Using one-liners
during your presentations can be a quick and easy way to add humor. These brief bits of
comedy are fun and easy to deliver and they don't have to be all
extremely funny to get
your point across.
If you aren't quite sure about using a lot of humor in your speech,
learning how use one-liners in your public speaking course is a
great place to start.
Keeping the audience alert is
important to what you use from your public speaking course. Also, if the audience is there
to get high levels of content, they don't feel you wasted their time
with long stories and a bunch of jokes. Most audiences likes one-liners, because they can get a quick mental
break from very content heavy material.
One of the best sources for one-liners you can get is a small and
inexpensive paperback called 'Today's Chuckle: 2500 Great One-Liners
for Every Occasion' by Paul Harlan Collins. Most public speaking resource
books are broken down into categories. There are 25 categories in this
book and I am sure you could find a relevant piece of humor to use for
every presentation. This book has categories such as "Affairs of State and Other Political
Indiscretions" where you might find the one-liner:
"Politicians are like polkas. They have different names, but they
all sound alike."
or the category 'Money and the Meaning of Life' where you would see
truisms like:
"Prosperity is that period between the last installment and the
next purchase.'
You'll run across one-liners everywhere once you start looking for
them. Some will even
have two lines. Don't worry. You can write them down too.
Just for fun, here are some of my favorites:
Computers can do complicated mathematical calculations in 1/100,000
second, but the invoices still go out 10 days late.
Thanks to automatic teller machines you are always conveniently close
to being broke.
My accountant is shy and retiring. He's $250,000 shy. That's why he's
retiring.
Behind every successful person stands a bunch of amazed co-workers.
How are you supposed to teach a kid what clockwise means when he's
wearing a digital GI Joe watch?
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