![]() Not all entertaining speeches include large doses of humor. Some common entertaining speech topics include everything from crazy e-mails people have written to trying to understand our funny family members. The speeches themselves must follow all the guidelines of effective public speaking, but the speeches must be able to captivate an audience through interesting and funny anecdotes and stories. Effective speeches in this category are often seen as the intersection of public speaking and stand-up comedy. ![]() For this reason, most speeches that fall into the “to entertain” category are either informative or persuasive, but we categorize them separately because of reliance on humor. Quite often these speeches fall into the category of “after-dinner speeches,” or speeches that contain a serious message but are delivered in a lively, amusing manner that will keep people alert after they’ve finished eating a big meal. Some speeches are specifically designed to be more lighthearted and entertaining for audience members. The third general purpose people can have for public speaking is to entertain. In this case, the goal of your speech is to have your classmates stop using Microsoft Office and start using OpenOffice-you want them to act. In your speech, you could show how the cost of Microsoft Office is constantly rising and that OpenOffice offers the exact same functionality for free. So you give a speech persuading your classmates to switch from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice ( ). For example, maybe you’re an advocate for open-source (or free) software packages. When we want an audience to do something at the end of the speech, we call this a “call to action” because we are actually asking our audience members to act on what we’ve said during the speech. In this case, your goal at the end of the speech is to see your audience members actually do something. The second type of persuasive speech, the more common of the two, is to get someone to change her or his behavior. The goal of this speech isn’t to convert people, it’s just to get people to think about your group in a more positive fashion or change their thought process. In your speech, you could try to tell your classmates where that negative press is coming from and all the good that your religious sect does in the world. For example, maybe you belong to a specific religious group that doesn’t always get the greatest press. In the first case, you’re trying to get someone to change her or his opinion or belief to what you, as the speaker, want that person to think or believe after the speech. When you persuade another person, you are attempting to get that person to change her or his thought process or behavior. The second general purpose that public speakers can have is to persuade.
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