Don’t Rush Your Speech Delivery
Don’t talk too fast. The audience needs time to process what you are saying. This is especially true when delivering a humorous speech. Not only does the audience need to process the information but they also need to process the humor. The audience will not laugh if they are too busy trying to understand what you are saying. This doesn’t mean to talk so slow that you sound like you are talking down to the audience. It just means that you should speak at a natural conversational rate so the audience can pick up the nuances of the humor. Also, when you speak too fast it can give the audience the impression that you are nervous and want to get through your speech and off the stage as fast as you can.