In just a little over three weeks, Darren LaCroix is offering his two-day Humor Boot Camp in Las Vegas.  Stage time, personal coaching and insights from a humor expert.  Tags: Humor In Speaking Darren LaCroix Humor Boot Cam This is an opportunity you shouldn’t miss.  I highly recommend everything Darren offers. 

I can’t think of a better way to celebrate National Humor Month than to spend four days at the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH) conference.  Also, I was on a panel with Larry Wilde , named America’s best-selling humorist by the New York Times; Marilyn Sherman , motivational speaker; Allen Klein , Jollytologist; and John Kinde , Humor Power (that’s me).  With nearly 200 people attending from around the globe, we spend four days laughing, learning and making new friends. Jollytologist Allen Klein received the Doug Fletcher Lifetime

A Top-Ten List is a great vehicle for creating and delivering humor.  Going to Las Vegas? Come up with your own list of questions that will enable you to create a working list from which you can mine humor. Going to Las Vegas to invest her retirement funds. 2.  It’s a regular feature on the David Letterman show. The key isn’t TEN items. 

The Geo-Foods humor contest was popular.  Long Beacheetos:  Cheetos that are salty and have an oily aftertaste.      Jim Spero, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA ** THIRD PLACE ** HONORABLE MENTION (in random order)   – Corpus Crispies:  A flesh-toned cereal that goes snap, crackle, pop!   – Beef a Las Vegas:  No matter how much you eat, the calories stay in Vegas.   – Coloradoughnuts:  Beautifully textured pastries whose tops are often powdered.   – Utaco Salad:  A salad that comes in a basketball Our readers submitted many entries. 

Here is a brief bit Observational Humor I used as an opening remark at the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Speakers Association.  typically open my speeches with Observational Humor, so my “speech opening” was a short segment of humor. Would you find it interesting to learn how to create fresh, observational humor that you could use as an opener for one of your speeches?” Patricia Fripp was the featured speaker presenting a full-day program.  Her program included individual coaching of audience members presenting speech openings. 

Here’s an Observational Humor monologue from a Darren LaCroix humor workshop in Las Vegas. Watch for the January 1 Ezine which will include an article on how to create “savers” (what to say when a line doesn’t work) based on Observational Humor.  Tags: Case Studies being funny observational humor public speaking spontaneous humo THE SET-UP (What was said and what happened during the workshop.) 1. 

Here’s an Observational Humor monologue from a Darren LaCroix humor workshop in Las Vegas. Watch for the January 1 Ezine which will include an article on how to create “savers” (what to say when a line doesn’t work) based on Observational Humor.  Tags: Case Studies being funny observational humor public speaking spontaneous humo THE SET-UP (What was said and what happened during the workshop.) 1. 

Patricia Fripp’s Speaking School is in Las Vegas in just two weeks, November 14-15, 2009.  Tags: Humor In Speaking Presentation Skill Hot Tip!  Fripp is one of the world’s best public speaking coaches.  I’ve heard Fripp speak more than 20 times. 

Here’s another Observational Humor monologue.  The principles and lessons-learned apply to any speaking situation where you might want to use some fresh humor. A guest said that she had won the Miss Teen Las Vegas contest many years ago. This was a planned piece of Observational Humor I brought to the meeting.  THE SET-UP (What happened and what was said during the meeting before the monologue was delivered.) 1. 

Twheaties:  Canary flavored breakfast cereal for cats.      Jim Spero, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA ** SECOND PLACE ** Tags: Contests creative writing humor Joke contes It’s time for the results of the Quirky Pet Foods contest. Our next Joke Writing Contest will be on the 15th. New Cartoon Caption Contests