Tag Archives: comedy

Swearing in Speeches

By Andrew | Published: April 23, 2009
When I was writing my first toastmasters speech a key part of the story revolved around someone swearing at me. I was certain a verbatim quote would cause offense so I adjusted the phrase to “Turn your effing music off!”. This sounded stilted and my mentor thought it was still too strong. After, literally, hours [...]
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Blood, sweat and jokes

By Andrew | Published: April 9, 2009
A few nights ago I went along to The London Open Mic Comedy Night to support my friend and aspiring standup comedian Tom Elliott. He did very well and I was very impressed with high standard of everyone who performed. Standup comedy is a very pure form of public speaking. No safety net of a set [...]
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