Audience love speakers who are funny, more so when they made fun of themselves. However sometimes the jokes that the speaker unleash bombed i.e. no one laughs. And worse, you get their blank stare “HUH??!!” What should the speaker do?

Lament and blame the audience explicity?
Repeat the joke, this time more slowly?
Explain the punchline?

Not pretty.

There are two ways to approach this. The first approach is to follow up with a saver line that is both witty and mildly attacking to force them to laugh. However for this to work, the speaker has to be very confident and experienced. When your joke bombed, follow up with these lines…

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I have been invited to speak at Singapore Polytechnic 55@SP event tomorrow (Friday, 4 August @ 4pm). Venue is at Singapore Poly, W1011.

1. If you would like to chill and be entertained, you got to come!
   

2. If you would like to know how you can become an entrepreneur that stands out from the rest, you got to come!
   

3. If you would like to get my autograph or take a picture with me…… give me your number and I will drive you there personally!
   

See you there!

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There’s always this one professor or lecturer in your school that you love and hate. He has the weirdest accent and you wonder where he really come from. Or he loves mumbling to himself, so much so that it doesn’t really matter if you attend his class or not. The ultimate: you come out of the class more confused than you were before and you have no idea how he did it.

Sometimes you can learn a lot from these people (by NOT doing what they have done in class). Enjoy!

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