How to balance humor and reading a best man speech off your phone
Figuring out where to place humor in a speech and whether it is okay to read directly from a phone instead of paper leaves speakers unsure of their delivery. This uncertainty makes it difficult to feel fully prepared and confident before standing up to speak.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1revamping and rewriting the speech multiple times based on forum feedback
- 2asking online communities to review and critique speech drafts
- 3Reading the speech directly off a phone
- 4Printing the speech out on paper
- 5Writing the speech out in a small notebook
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Appreciate your feedback, looking to know at which part I can explore more on putting humour in the sentence.”source ↗
“I have the speech ready and very happy about it but I types it out on my phone. Do I have to print it out and or write it out by hand? And should I give it to the bride after? Can I read off it when I give the speech?”source ↗
Where this came up
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