A chief executive for a large corporation was due to give an important speech at a major business convention. So he asked the company press officer to write him a punchy, twenty minute speech. When the chief executive returned from the convention, he was furious and went storming into the […]
The Best Funny speech
A colleague of mine was once invited to give a speech at a convention in Japan. Aware he had a good reputation as a public speaker, he was most surprised when his audience did not react at all to any of his perfectly timed jokes and witticisms. In fact, the […]
A man who was due to give a speech after dinner, was in such a hurry to get to the hotel where he was to give his speech, that when he arrived and sat down at the head table, he suddenly realized that he had forgotten to bring his false […]