Last Night's Performance

Here's a little report on my speech done last night. I decided to shorten the script so I could slow down my pace for my audience to have a grasp on what I am saying. It was better this time, not too fast not too slow, just about enough time for them to understand my content. I put in a few pauses as well and I realise around 50% of the pauses managed to create tensions which would initiate a laugh. Hmm...gotta experiment a few more times with pauses. I don't feel 100% confident yet using pauses in speeches.

Throughout the night, I pulled through the speech with a poker face. A comedian can never laugh at his on joke during performance, this is sort of like a criteria to create tension among the audience. I don't see any flaws on the poker face, perhaps my clothes. Maybe I could wear something that signifies that I'm gonna tell a joke like wearing my smiley tie.

Althought the response was better than the last one, I still can't manage to get everyone to laugh. After some thinking, my deductions were that there's no single joke that can be used at every audience. Meaning I need to taylor specific jokes at specific audience. It's like some people that don't watch starwars, they wouldn't understand if you are telling them a yoda joke. This is the tough part.

Things to improve:

1) plan my speech according to my audience (age, gender, etc...)

2) building up even more tension by using more emphasis before the punchline

3) reveal part of my insanity to the audience before actually doing my speech ( to create expectations )