joke

Examples of joke in the following topics:

• Using Humor

  • Using a joke to start a presentation is often a good idea if used properly.
  • Beginning a presentation with a joke can be an effective strategy for winning over one's audience, provided the speaker or author knows his or her audience well.
  • However, the speaker better hope the audience thinks the joke is funny!
  • Most often, keeping one's joke clean is prudent, as not to create discomfort among the audience.
  • Also helpful is telling a joke relevant to the subject being presented.

• Humor

  • It would be great if you had a joke or humorous story in mind for every possible occasion, but probably you don't.
  • According to one of his longtime writers, Sherwood Schwartz, Hope wanted to "get there, and fast" in all his jokes.
  • "You knew that if you wrote a joke for Bob, you had to knock out every word that didn't count.
  • Once, when I worked as a college administrator, I e-mailed a lawyer joke to a large group of faculty members.
  • You might have noticed that the joke I began this section with doesn't specify whether the offending boss was male or female.

• Feedback: Visual and Verbal Cues

  • If you tell a joke or a funny anecdote, you expect laughter as your feedback.
  • One good way to tell if your joke bombed--no laughter.

• The Beginning

  • Will you start with a quote, statistic, personal story, a joke, or an overview?
  • Using a joke to start a presentation is often a good idea, as long as it is appropriate.
  • Also, try to make the joke pertain to the subject you are presenting.
  • Using an overview as an opening would be a good choice if you are unsure how your audience will react to a joke or a startling statistic.

• Write Productively-Part I

  • Some folks effortlessly recall jokes and quips by the dozen.
  • Lots of people don't remember jokes at all, however, whether good or bad.
  • A good chunk of the explosive growth in e-mail communication over the last 10-15 years consists of jokes and other materials meant to amuse us.

• Likeability of Political Candidates

  • Politicians may consciously attempt to augment their likeability by donating to charities, telling jokes during speeches, or posing for photos with voters.

• The Interactionist Perspective

  • When the receptionist hangs up the CEO's jacket, he takes on a subservient position; when the receptionist makes excuses for the CEO missing a deadline, he accepts responsibility for the CEO's mistake; when the receptionist laughs at jokes that he does not find funny, he flatters the CEO because he recognizes that his job depends on doing so.

• Other Speeches: Farewells, Toasts, and After-Dinner Remarks

  • You may jot down a few key talking points or maybe a specific joke or anecdote that you wish to include.

• Hydrogen Spectra

  • (It was a running joke that any theory of atomic and molecular spectra could be destroyed by throwing a book of data at it, so complex were the spectra.)

• The Speaking Outline

  • An introduction - This includes notes on whether the speaker starts with a quote, statistics, personal story, or humorous joke.