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How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

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How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

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Page 1: How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking
Page 2: How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

Humor is a great way to engage your audience in

your speech.

Page 3: How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

Hi, my name is Akash and I’m a professional speaker & author of

eight bestselling books

Page 4: How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

Hi, my name is Akash and I’m a professional speaker & author of

eight bestselling books

Page 5: How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

Hi, my name is Akash and I’m a professional speaker & author of

eight bestselling books

You can get FREE access to some of my best stuff by clicking here

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Hi, my name is Akash and I’m a professional speaker & author of

eight bestselling books

You can get FREE access to some of my best stuff by clicking here

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Humor is a great way to engage your audience in

your speech.

Page 9: How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

For example, in Sir Ken Robinson’s popular TED talk, he makes the audience laugh an

average of once a minute.

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CREATE AN EXPECTATION,

1

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CREATE AN EXPECTATION,

THEN SUDDENLY BREAK IT

1

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A comment is humorous when it creates an

expectation and then suddenly breaks it.

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A comment is humorous when it creates an

expectation and then suddenly breaks it.

We laugh when we are surprised.

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Ken Robinson is a master at creating expectations and then breaking them.

Consider the following line:

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Ken Robinson is a master at creating expectations and then breaking them.

Consider the following line:

“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often…

Page 17: How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

Ken Robinson is a master at creating expectations and then breaking them.

Consider the following line:

“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often…

The set-up = expectation

Page 18: How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

Ken Robinson is a master at creating expectations and then breaking them.

Consider the following line:

“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often…

The set-up = expectation

Makes you expect he misses his wife’s cooking

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Ken Robinson is a master at creating expectations and then breaking them.

Consider the following line:

“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often…

thankfully.” (audience laughter)

The set-up = expectation

Makes you expect he misses his wife’s cooking

Page 20: How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

Ken Robinson is a master at creating expectations and then breaking them.

Consider the following line:

“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often…

thankfully.” (audience laughter)

The set-up = expectation

Makes you expect he misses his wife’s cooking

Punch-line/word = breaks expectation

Page 21: How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

Ken Robinson is a master at creating expectations and then breaking them.

Consider the following line:

“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often…

thankfully.” (audience laughter)

The set-up = expectation

Makes you expect he misses his wife’s cooking

Punch-line/word = breaks expectation

Makes you realize he is grateful his wife doesn’t cook (opposite of expectation = laughter!)

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The shorter the punch line, the greater the laugh.

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The shorter the punch line, the greater the laugh.

If Sir Ken had said, “If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, and I’m

thankful about that,” the comment wouldn’t have been as funny.

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USESELF-DEPRECATING

HUMOR

2

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USESELF-DEPRECATING

HUMOR

2

Self-deprecating humor works because it shows that you’re willing to poke fun at yourself.

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USESELF-DEPRECATING

HUMOR

2

Self-deprecating humor works because it shows that you’re willing to poke fun at yourself.

It gives the audience permission to have fun because you’re having fun by making fun of yourself.

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Consider the following piece of self-deprecating humor from Dan Pink’s TED

talk:

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Consider the following piece of self-deprecating humor from Dan Pink’s TED

talk:

“I never practiced law a day in my life;

Page 30: How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

Consider the following piece of self-deprecating humor from Dan Pink’s TED

talk:

“I never practiced law a day in my life; I pretty much wasn’t allowed to.”(audience laughter)

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The lesson here is this:

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The lesson here is this: don’t be afraid to poke fun at

yourself on stage.

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OVEREXAGGERRATE

2

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OVEREXAGGERRATE

2

People laugh at obvious over-exaggerations.

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In his TED talk, Sir Ken also used over-exaggeration to get a laugh from his audience. Consider how grossly he

over-exaggerates his wife’s ability to multi-task:

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In his TED talk, Sir Ken also used over-exaggeration to get a laugh from his audience. Consider how grossly he

over-exaggerates his wife’s ability to multi-task:

“If she’s cooking, you know, she’s dealing with people on the phone, she’s talking to

the kids, she’s painting the ceiling,

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In his TED talk, Sir Ken also used over-exaggeration to get a laugh from his audience. Consider how grossly he

over-exaggerates his wife’s ability to multi-task:

“If she’s cooking, you know, she’s dealing with people on the phone, she’s talking to the kids, she’s painting the ceiling, she’s

doing open-heart surgery over here” (audience laughter)

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There are entire books devoted to humor, but I find that the above three techniques are the ones from which I generate the bulk of laughs.

Page 39: How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

There are entire books devoted to humor, but I find that the above three techniques are the ones from which I generate the bulk of laughs.

• CREATE AN EXPECTATION, THEN SUDDENLY BREAK IT

Page 40: How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

There are entire books devoted to humor, but I find that the above three techniques are the ones from which I generate the bulk of laughs.

• CREATE AN EXPECTATION, THEN SUDDENLY BREAK IT

• USE SELF-DEPRECATING HUMOR

Page 41: How to Give a TED talk: What Ken Robinson, Dan Pink and Elizabeth Gilbert can Teach You about Humor in Public Speaking

There are entire books devoted to humor, but I find that the above three techniques are the ones from which I generate the bulk of laughs.

• CREATE AN EXPECTATION, THEN SUDDENLY BREAK IT

• OVER EXAGGERRATE

• USE SELF-DEPRECATING HUMOR

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