Want to really energize your presentation skills? Here are some tips on how you can open up your comedy chakras.

1. © Mighty Casey Media Last Pitch Standing Using Comedy to Banish BORING From Pitches + Presentations

2. © Mighty Casey Media Funny. Business.

3. © Mighty Casey Media Be the real you. Everyone else is taken.

5. Shy

6. © Mighty Casey Media Au contraire, mon frere. (or mon soeur)

7. Do your audiences look like this? © Mighty Casey Media

8. © Mighty Casey Media OK, Casey... So how do I keep 'em AWAKE?

9. © Mighty Casey Media First rule: BE PRESENT

10. © Mighty Casey Media Being PRESENT: Engages you Engages your audience Engages your likability

11. © Mighty Casey Media All Comedy is PERSONAL

13. Product or project pitches?

14. Team meetings?

15. All of the above?

16. Comedy is just like: Plumbing, Lego, or Building a house © Mighty Casey Media

17. © Mighty Casey Media Building Block #1: What's your point?

18. © Mighty Casey Media Topic Examples Crazy clients The boss from hell Road trip from hell Bumper stickers Mammograms The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree

19. © Mighty Casey Media Building Block #2: What's your point of view – your comedy premise? What does the audience need to know to get it?* * 90% of the audience MUST get it, or no laughs!

21. I want to vote my project team off the island.

22. I thought my mother was unreasonable. Then I met my wife.

23. Software manuals are written by Martians. © Mighty Casey Media

24. © Mighty Casey Media Building Block #3: Attitude * This is crazy... You wouldn't BELIEVE what... What is UP with... (and so forth) *also called Persona

26. Scared

27. Disgusted

28. Resigned

29. Amused

31. Action(s) speak louder than words

32. What your audience sees and feels drives more than 50% of their reaction to you

33. It ain’t the words, it’s the motion © Mighty Casey Media

34. © Mighty Casey Media Building a joke, a/k/a bit: Set it up in no more than TWO LINES

35. © Mighty Casey Media Third line is the PUNCH LINE. Make it end on your punch WORD, Make that a word that's short and... well...PUNCHY

36. © Mighty Casey Media Comedy categories: Absurdity Incongruity Sudden shift in status One of these things is not like the other Surprise twist

37. Got an Inside Joke? Inside information can really punch up a bit Find out who’s in the audience, and tailor the bit(s) Ever want to get a client to really notice you? © Mighty Casey Media

38. © Mighty Casey Media Never forget the power of REHEARSED SPONTANEITY!

40. The microphone stopped working!

41. Guinness Book of World Records dish-drop!

42. …and the scariest of all - the heckler! © Mighty Casey Media … for speakers

43. OK, I’m Presenting TOMORROW…! The internet = Instant Comedy! Play with search terms on Google, see what comes up www.comedy-zone.com Find a joke, then PERSONALIZE it! © Mighty Casey Media

44. Remember this…. Comedy is a muscle Exercise will strengthen it, and make it grow Find your sweet spot, and work it © Mighty Casey Media © Mighty Casey Media

45. © Mighty Casey Media To review: Be present Make it personal Use rehearsed spontaneity Keep bits short + PUNCHY Remember the 'worst case scenario' strategy

46. DOESN'T THIS LOOK MORE LIKE IT?

47. © Mighty Casey Media Thank you! Any questions?

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