Okay, here’s my blog post about finding topics for an entertainment speech, written in a casual, personal style:
Alright, so I had to give a speech the other day. Not a boring work presentation, thankfully, but an entertainment speech. The kind where you gotta make people laugh, or at least crack a smile. Sounds fun, right? Except when you’re staring at a blank page, and your mind is as empty as your coffee cup after a Monday morning.
First thing I did? Freaked out. Just a little. Okay, maybe a lot. I paced around my apartment, muttering to myself, “What am I gonna talk about? I’m not funny! My life is boring!”
Then, I remembered some advice a friend gave me: “Just talk about what you know, what you find interesting.” So, I grabbed my phone and started scrolling through my photos. Pictures of my cat doing weird stuff? Check. Vacation photos where I made goofy faces? Double-check. That awkward selfie with a pigeon on my head? Oh yeah, we’re getting somewhere.
I made a quick list of my findings:
- The time my cat tried to ‘bury’ my phone in the litter box. (Why, Mittens, WHY?)
- That disastrous attempt at baking a cake that ended up looking like a volcanic eruption.
- My incredibly embarrassing karaoke performance of “Bohemian Rhapsody”. (I hit some of the notes… eventually.)
- The pigeon incident. It deserved its own bullet point.
See, the thing is, everyday life is full of little absurdities. You just gotta look for them. Once I started digging, I realized I had a goldmine of potentially funny material. My cat’s strange habits, my kitchen mishaps, my questionable fashion choices… it was all there.
I then decided to try to find a way to chain all my topics ideas in a single, more coherent speech, with transitions and jokes that could make sense.
My Choice: A Speech about human and animals
I’ve selected to chain the pigeon story and the cat story. It all starts with the pigeon story, it’s not every day you get a pigeon randomly chose your head as its territory after all.
The transition to the cat story was easy to find: “It’s not every day you encounter a wild animal, at the opposite of your usual pet, but let me tell you about my cat and the litter box…”.
The key, I found, is to embrace the awkwardness, the silliness, the “OMG, I can’t believe that happened to me” moments. Those are the things that make people connect with you, that make them laugh because they’ve been there too, in some way or another.
So, if you’re ever stuck for an entertainment speech topic, don’t overthink it. Just look around you. Your life is probably way more entertaining than you realize. And if all else fails, talk about your pets. Everyone loves a good pet story, am I right?
