Here's what's funny! 3 New Humor Tools to help a Professional Speaker be Funnier.

A Keynote Speaker is Humorless.

Why?

There is only one reason a professional speaker doesn't use humor masterfully in their talks. They haven't figured out how.

"When you laugh with someone, you both feel you’re on the same side. It’s a fantastic tool for building a connection. Indeed, for many great speakers humor has become

a Superweapon."

Chris Anderson, TED, CEO

Did you say the person in charge of the most coveted speaking platform on Earth believes "for building a connection" that

"Humor is a Super-Weapon."

And the CEO of TED is not alone.

Most top speakers are equally effusive about humor.

"Nothing positions people for persuasion

as well as a sense of humor."

Roger Dawson

"Nothing builds rapport faster than humor."

Jeffrey Gitomer

"Never forget that humor’s ability to poison a presentation is exceeded only by its capacity to lift it to another level."

Dave Zielinski

And something else is improved by using humor well.

If you’re funny enough in the speaking world, word spreads,

and you get all the work you can handle.

Marty Wilson

If you have any desire to be a professional speaker, you’ll make a lot more money if you can make people laugh.

Michael Port, Presentation Expert

As a professional speaker, I truly believe I could double or triple my business if I was funnier - and you should think about your own instincts with humor and how you can use them to your advantage.

Patrick Schwerdtfeger

Many years ago the late Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks. His answer was, “That’s where the money is.” Why humor? Because that’s where the influence, the appeal, the control, the good feeling--and eventually, the money is.

Robert Orben

Gee these people don't mince their words about using humor to improve their craft for their professsional and financial success.

If humor helps a speaker create a better connection with their audience which leads to increased demand & speaker fees why doesn't every speaker learn to add it to every talk they give?

The same reason people don't fix their plumbing problems.

They don't have the tools.

What kind of tools are you talking about?

Professional Humor Tools

Fortunately there is a suite of professional humor tools built specifically for presenters. It's a likabilty toolbox called:

If you're a speaker, now you can add as much humor as you like anywhere in your talk. And once you've upgraded your talk to be more humorous & entertaining then you can upgrade your fees too.

Now for some straight talk. No mincing words. No sugar coating.

The goal of any skilled speaker is simple - make your audience

feel as good as you can as fast as you can for as long as you can.

Why?

Because human beings are drawn to things that feel good and resist things that don't. If watching and listening to you doesn't feel better than looking at their phone then their phone will again demand their undivided attention.

We all buy liability insurance to cover our car. What about likability insurance to cover our presentation? Is this a thing? It is now. Of course it has always been available.

The price is whatever time and effort it takes to make it easy for people to smile, laugh and feel good listening to you. When your audience is smiling and laughing that's your likabilty insurance policy.

How do you find humor that becomes

your likability insurance policy

for your next presentation?

How about right here.

Let's do it together.

For example, let's say your keynote speaking topic

is "The Benefits of Facebook Marketing."

You want to make your audience feel great the minute you step on the stage with your likable, masterful, charming use of humor.

How would you do it without having to learn the craft of creating and delivering pitch-perfect humor as skillful as great comedians do?

With Humor Tools For Presenters

Humor Tool #1 - The Perfect Cartoon

"The Worlds First Curated Cartoon Search Engine"

Click on the image above to be taken to your new humor search engine. When you arrive at the site roll your mouse over the thumbnail images to enlarge them. If you like, click on any thumbnail to be taken to their original home where they were discovered.

Pretty quickly you can see with the right humor tools finding great visual humor to add levity, likability and memorability to your presentation is easy. And here's why it's important.

"Humor Increases Persuasion's Effectiveness." Marshal Chiles

To take Marshal's advice, why not begin your next talk with a great cartoon, funny image or quote to set the mood in the room to light. It tells your audience your talk is not going to be a total borefest and you plan to keep things lively.

It also tells your audience that their phone won't be more entertaining than you so they can relax and lean into you and your ideas and be fully present for your message.

In a Presentation

People never get tired of feeling Good

The difference between a good presentation and a great presentation is one feels ok and one feels great. A presenter who shares an appealing and likable sense of humor in their message makes all the difference.

Humor Tool #2 - A Perfect Likable Opening One-Liner

Smart Speakers Have A Singular Opening Objective:

Go from being a stranger to their audience

to a likable new friend in 0 to 60 seconds.

To tip your audience off that your talk is not going to be a humorless snoozefest here are you two opening one-liners you can use to establish your likability and wit right at the beginning of your talk.

"I realize this may be a dry topic for some of you so I don't mind you looking at your watch while I give my presentation. But please do me the courtesy of not tapping it (as you tap yours) to see if it is still working."

Or you can poke a little fun at our shared technology addiction.

"Thank you for putting your phone away during my presentation. I realize even though we're not looking at our phones, it doesn't mean we're not thinking about them."

The key to both these openers is they are easy to remember and can be presented in a fun, friendly, spontaneous way that lets your audience know immediately that you're relaxed, in charge, and have a nice sense of humor. Exactly what you want them to experience.

Every presentation training on Earth suggests presenters open with a

provocative question, a stunning fact, a presentation prop, or a compelling story or anecdote, preferably amusing.

But few presentation trainings suggest coming right out of the gate with the single focus to make your audience smile or laugh as your first order of business.

They say, "Never open with a joke" warning that if your attempt at humor falls flat (or is totally inappropriate) you will suddenly leave your audience puzzled by your poor judgment of humor and concerned about the rest of your judgment.

This is true. Except for one thing. The Merrium-Webster definition of a joke is, "Something said or done to provoke laughter." That's it. It could be a cartoon, a funny photo, a funny quote, or a story or anecdote with a humorous twist.

It doesn't mean starting your talk with, "Two guys walk into a bar..." It is simply the desire to initiate good feelings in an audience with humor.

Could your attempt to make your audience smile fall flat? Sure. But even that provides an opportunity for some charming self-deprecating humor.

If your audience doesn't respond favorably to your best effort to share some fun, feel good likable humor then you can smile and say, "Well that's the last time I buy anything from DiscountHumor.com. I paid seventy-five cents for that. Next time I'll see what they have for a dollar."

Sometimes acknowledging your humor failure, "I thought that would get a bigger laugh," can provide a funny moment of levity as people see themselves in your attempt at humor not quite hitting its mark.

The value of HumorPoint's new state of the art humor tools is for the first time any presenter can easily and safely find and deploy humor to make their presentation more entertaining and engaging without any of the risk associated with poorly chosen humor.

Humor Tool #3 - The Perfect Comedy Clip

Let me introduce you to another easy to use humor tool called The Perfect Comedy Clip. Rather than bemoaning that you could never present humor as well as a comedian, why not let a world class comedian deliver the point you want to make better than you ever could.

Let's say you want to make a topical point of how during the pandemic working from home became the new normal.

If you are a father you might share and introduce the video below by saying "During the pandemic it may have been the new normal to work from home but as a dad it's always a challenge. Ray Ramono captured me at home perfectly." Then share this comedy clip.

If you're a mom you could share the impression of this girl imitiating her mom on the phone with her kids coming into her home office.

The point is with curated professional humor tools at your finger tips it is no longer a question of can you use humor well, it is only a question of how much humor should you use to make your message compelling and entertainingly enjoyable from the start to finish.

The Three Top Speaking Proverbs About Using Humor Are:

"Does a professional speaker have to include humor in his talk?

No. Only if he wants to get paid."

"More Yucks, More Bucks."

"No Funny, No Money."

Which is why the first thing presentation booking agents look for in any Professional Speaker's Video Samples is an example of the speaker using humor well in their talk to an amused audience. Laughing audiences mean better reviews for the speakers and for those who book them.

The good news is finding high quality funny images to throw a little light of humor onto any topic you may be speaking about is now easier than ever. Even humor about being a Professional Speaker.

Click on to See Enlarged at The Perfect Cartoon

It is no secret the presentations people remember and talk about most at a conference and years later are the funniest ones. Now with HumorPoint you have powerful humor tools to create the presentation people talk about.

The shortest distance between two hearts is laughter.

It is also the quickest way to get 500, or 1,000,

or even 3,000 hearts together.

Marty Wilson

With HumorPoint you can move from your current humor comfort zone to where the magic happens.

I hope you have enjoyed learning about the exciting evolution of humor from a presentation personality trait that only the gifted orators were able to capitalize on to a new humor competency through the use of humor tools that anyone can use and develop for greater professional speaking success.

I'll leave you with one presentation example of how a strong and compelling message coupled with intelligent, relatable humor can fully captivate an audience in a mere sixty seconds.

This keynote speaker becomes likable, knowable, and even inspiring in under a minute. And remarkably, this powerful and enjoyable speaker is not even real.

HumorPoint lets you present yourself in a welcomed, relatable, and light-hearted way without any humor risk. Enjoy a new level of humor competency & success with smart, fun, likable Humor Tools.

Like this one.

Create your own Star Wars promo for your latest speaking gig at

The Perfect Graphic Generator