How Not to BORE Your Audience
to Death!

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You should realize that all good speakers and performers were bad when they started out. No one who is successful today started out famous.

Every successful communicator at one time was exactly like you, an unknown person trying to get attention from their audience by simply using the three parts of a good presentation delivery - your content, voice, and gestures.

How?

Let's look at what a successful comic says about starting out. Here's Ray Romano ("Everyone loves Raymond") in his forward to "How to be a Working Comic" by Dave Schwensen.

"The hardest part about standup comedy is that no one is funny when first starting out. Oh, yeah, they may have had a good bit or funny impression they do, but ask the working comics who have been around for a while how they were in the beginning, and they'll tell you, Oh, I sucked." Ray Romano

As the former owner of the legendary San Francisco comedy club, the Holy City Zoo, John Cantu showcased Robin Williams, Paula Poundstone, Kevin Meany, Rob Schneider, Dana Carvey, and dozens more nationally known comics helping them get the experience to get their first break.

This video is not an attempt to turn you into a comedian. Rather, it is to share some tricks, techniques, and principles that all professional communicators use to better connect with their audience. I learned this from over twenty years of running comedy clubs and seeing pros up close.

"Cantu is simply the best humor coach I've met." --Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE and past president of National Speakers Association

What Raymond writes about comedians could apply to most professional speakers. In the beginning, they stammered and stuttered and often were dull and uninteresting. But by speaking over and over again, they became interesting, exciting, and non-boring.

"I started my career in the humor speaking business in a Cantu workshop. I still consult with him for advice today." --Malcolm Kushner, author The Light Touch: How to Use Humor for Business Success and Public Speaking For Dummies

But since I spent a great deal of my time in comedy clubs, many of my examples will come from the comedy club world. I was very lucky, in that during my twenty-year career as a comedy club producer, I got to produce shows with: A. Whitney Brown, Dana Carvey, Margaret Cho, Will Durst, Larry Hovis, Kevin Meany, Kevin Pollack, Paula Poundstone, Rick Reynolds, Rob Scheidner, Jerry Seinfeld, Bobby Slayton, Carrie Snow, The Amazing Jonathan (Jonathan Szeles), Robin Williams, and literally hundreds more.

I saw them before they had the fame they have now. I saw them in their initial efforts in getting on stage and trying to make people laugh with their material, their delivery, and their personality much the same as what you try to do now when you give a presentation.

Cantu says:"If you are able to talk to other people, you can succeed at earning money with humor!"

--and not be boring!

Most speakers realize there are three parts to a speech, but not all are aware that the actual speech is only one part of the three parts of a presentation. The three parts of a presentation are:

For example, you'll discover...

	Content (your speech or monologue)
	Voice (your volume, your delivery speed, the way you pronounce specific words)
	Gestures (your body English, your posture, how you move)
	And much, much more!

"To John Cantu, the unsung guru of comedy." The dedication of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom: Using Humor in Business Speaking" by Michael Iapoce.

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"Your workshop, was a key factor in making PDSWEST'01 a very successful Conference. Your dynamic workshop received rave reviews. Feedback we received included "I learned more in Cantu's Workshop in the first hour than I learned from the rest of the entire Conference."

Dan Zook
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"Loved your advice on giving the audience specific directions for action. Your pal and admirer.

Susan RoAne
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Keith McLeod, FCBL, Business Broker of the Year 1996, Small Business Leader of the Year

"Your stuff is so doable! Your professional advice has enabled me to help add humor to my students' and my presentations."

Dr. Abby Lynn Ross

"Using your ideas helped me "close" many more sales and develop a better relationship with my customers.

I found that I could see the decision maker more readily, and communicate sensitive topics with greater ease (such as contentious customer service issues.)

Later, as I started speaking professionally full time, I have consciously used your concepts to gain and maintain audience interest. People learn and listen when it's fun!

Your insight into communication is valuable for everyone who wants to improve their talking skills.

Peter Moritz, corporate consulting, motivational presentations, and personal coaching.

"Most books or articles that I've read on incorporating humor say something like "Look around for funny situations." What I feel is fantastic is the instruction -- the how to's, the techniques, the analysis, the skill building...specific how to's for those of us who really, really, really have to work on being humorous."

Ida Shessel
(Toronto, Canada)
Ida Shessel -- a dynamic interactive facilitator creating positive results focused on your business needs, located in the Toronto area

"I loved John. He was so gifted, and he really helped build comedy and comedians in San Francisco."

Comedian Michael Pritchard

"Cantu was larger than life."

Comedian Will Durst

For over 20 years John Cantu coached San Francisco Bay Area comedians and public speakers on effective communication skills that consistently generate laughs from audiences.

As a humor coach he has worked with many professional non-comedian communicators including Patricia Fripp, past president of the National Speakers Association, helping her increase the effectiveness of humor in her presentations.