The document discusses the purpose and structure of an entertainment speech. An entertainment speech aims to amuse an audience rather than inform or persuade. It often uses humor, jokes, and anecdotes. To prepare, a speaker should know their audience, learn from experienced speakers, and understand techniques for incorporating humor. An effective entertainment speech introduces the topic in an amusing way, includes jokes and witty comments to engage the audience in the body, and concludes with a creative restatement of the thesis.

1. ENTERTAINMENT SPEECH

2. ENTERTAINMENT SPEECH
The purpose of an entertainment speech
is to amuse or entertain the audience. It's
not intended to share information or to
persuade the audience of a particular
opinion. Because of this, entertainment
speeches are often humorous and may
include jokes or amusing anecdotes.

3. ENTERTAINMENT SPEECH
• enables the speaker to
connect with the audience
not only on cognitive level
but also at the affective
level.

4. ENTERTAINMENT SPEECH
• speaker must have a feel
for what entertains an
audience

5. PREPARING ENTERTAINMENT SPEECH
1. Know your audience
2. Learn from veteran speakers
3. Understand the available techniques of
producing entertainment and humor

6. PUNS • funny use of words

9. PREPARING ENTERTAINMENT SPEECH
1. Know your audience
2. Learn from veteran speakers
3. Understand the available techniques of
producing entertainment and humor
4. Understand the unacceptable methods
of producing humor

10. STRUCTURE OF AN ENTERTAINMENT SPEECH
1. Introduction
• state your thesis in a way that is entertaining to your
audience.
• may express it by combining an anecdote, joke, witty
comment, or entertaining comment.
2. Body
• For each main idea, add anecdotes, jokes, witty comments,
and other entertaining remarks that will capture your
audience’s attention.

11. STRUCTURE OF AN ENTERTAINMENT SPEECH
3. Conclusion
• creative restatement of your thesis – need not contain
entertaining remarks.

12. “I am not a vegetarian
because I love animals. I
am a vegetarian because
I hate plants.”
My girlfriend said, "You act
like a detective too much. I
want to split up." "Good
idea," I replied. "We can cover
more ground that way."
“My prince is not coming on
a white horse... He's
obviously riding a turtle, and
definitely lost.”
“Relationships are
a lot like algebra. Have
you ever looked at your
X and wondered Y?”

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