Humorous Speech Topic Ideas​

What are Humorous Speeches?

Humorous speeches refer to speeches that are made in order to entertain the audience. Most of the times, humour is used as an element to bring back the audience should they have zoned out, or to lighten the mood after a heavy speech or sometimes for sheer entertainment.

How to Write a Humorous Speech?

If you thought you could google up jokes, twist them and place them strategically in your speech and that would be enough to evoke laughter, you aren’t entirely right. While this may sometimes work, most of the time, it won’t.

Use experiences unique to you

A comedian friend once taught me the simple art of weaving humour. He said that the most authentic humour is the one that springs from one’s personal life experiences.

Since these are unique, it is nearly impossible for people to have heard of them and thus adds integrity to the write-up.

Understand the audience the humour is for 

Apart from this, ensure you keep in mind the platform that you will be speaking on. Jokes on spouses seldom do good in a school set up and those on exams will likely bomb in a corporate meeting.

If you are picking a topic that is a burning issue, like that of climate change then you would want to add humour subtly.

Know where to place your jokes

In a typical humorous speech, strive to make your audience get two laughs within a minute. Don’t spend a large part of your speech developing the joke and then saying it.

Ensure that it is well-timed, and the punch lines are scattered and not bunched together.

How to Select a Topic?

There is no set way to select a topic. Pretty much any topic can be turned into a humorous one. However, ensure you remember your audience and their age, background etc. Usually, topics revolving around politics, friends, family tend to be the most picked up ones.

Humorous Speech Topic Ideas

1. Democracy: The new stage for Pop Culture Icons
2. The fake promise lexicon
3. The PR battle during elections
4. The petty perils of pedigree politics
5. The ethical politician
6. The dilemma to vote
7. Why honest bureaucrats literally go miles
8. Political humor- Still an Oxymoron?
9. Censor over Sense in Politics
10. Why memes can get you elected
11. The Autocracy in Democracy
12. The system’s gap of common sense
13. The absurd math of NOTA
14. When campaigns cost more than elections
15. When educated people don’t vote and then crib
16. What you can learn about your office from watching The Office
17. Everyone I Work With Is at Fault, Except Me
18. David Weds Goliath: Mergers and Acquisitions for the New-Age Business
19. Even Robots Need Blankets: Why Technological Dependence Isn’t Everything for Your Business
20. What I’ll do When I Resign
21. How to Lose a Job in 10 Days
22. How Incompetent People Manage to Get the Best Jobs 
23. A Business Needs “Clerk” Kent, and Not Superman
24. Chicken Soup for the Business Soul
25. Why a Good Business Leader Needs an Oscar
26. No Filter: LinkedIn is Now the New Instagram
27. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: “I Don’t”, said the Billionaire
28. Mind your Own Business
29. Lead, Follow, or Get Out of The Way
30. To be Ethically Unethical or Unethically Ethical
31. Today’s Business Leader is Tomorrow’s Villain