In what reality is that possible?

Fellow speaker,

A powerful humor principle you can use in your speeches is reality vs. fantasy. The way it works is someone in your speech represents reality, how things really are. At the same time, someone else insists on fantasy and creating an imaginary rule that the reality person KNOWS isn't true. The humor comes in the reality person trying to talk the fantasy person into their world and the fantasy person trying to talk the reality person into their world.

John Cleese and Michael Palin had great comic success using this principle in the show Monty Python's Flying Circus. In "Parrot Sketch" (video below) notice how John Cleese (reality) and Michael Palin (fantasy) interact, each trying to convince the other to come over into the other person's world:

Really really,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
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