From Stand-up to Stand-out
When determining what kind of humor to use in your presentation you have to take into consideration two things. Will the audience think it’s funny and do you think it’s funny? I know this sound silly, but sometimes speakers use a joke because someone told them that it was funny. When I was first starting out as a stand-up comedian old comedians would want to help me out by giving me jokes that they used to do. I would try them out, but I knew they wouldn’t get a laugh becuase I didn’t think the joke fit me. It may have worked twenty years ago, but it was passe and didn’t fit my personality. The jokes didn’t go over well. If you don’t think its funny the audience isn’t going to think its funny.