{{B}}Human and Life{{/B}}
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know
how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to
the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you
understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view.
Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are
talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of
their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want
to comment on their disorganized bosses. Here is an example,
which I heard at a nurses’ convention, of a story which works well because the
audi A. take advantage of different kinds of audience B. make fun of the disorganized people C. address different problems to different people D. show sympathy for your listeners
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