| "Cantu is simply
the best humor coach I've met."
Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE and
past president of National Speakers Association. |
| "Cantu is a comedy
genius who really gets a crowd excited while teaching practical yet easy
to implement skills."
Malcolm Kushner, The Light Touch: How
to Use Humor for Business Success and Public
Speaking For Dummies. |
| "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. |
For years John Cantu went to work
when most people were going out to play. As a former owner/manager of several
different comedy clubs, Cantu produced nightly entertainment for San Francisco
Bay Area residents showcasing some of the country's top comedians including
Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, Paula Poundstone, Jerry Seinfeld, Rob Schneider,
Kevin Pollock, Margaret Cho, and others.
Cantu has taken the life lessons, humor
secrets, and presentation skills he's learn from years of working with
these famous performers and he now presents this wisdom in the form of
several popular programs.
When
you buy a "How To" book by Cantu, you get a triple treat:
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On the video/audio items, you will enjoy
a dynamic speaker whose superb presentation skills are modeled on the top
entertainers in the United States.
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You will hear rarely told back stage stories
about the above mentioned and other comedy stars.
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You will walk away motivated and inspired,
always with practical and immediately applicable fresh life skills.
John Cantu's impact is both immediate and
long-lasting. Audiences always left a Cantu presentation with high energy,
a rejuvenated outlook, and in good spirits. Cantu received many, many positive
notes, cards, and letters years later from past clients, seminar attendees,
and workshop participants about the positive effect he had on their life.
CANTU'S
HOTTEST AUDIO/VIDEO TOPICS
Communication
skills
Motivational humor
Creativity
Communication skills
Stop
Boring Your Audiences to Death
Do you have to sometimes give a talk,
presentation, or speech without any professional speaking background? Maybe
with just a few days advance notice or sometimes with even just a few hours
to prepare?
You will discover how to easily use many
performance techniques that talented comedians use to communicate successfully
with their audiences. This is not about telling jokes, but rather about
the unique presentation skills comics use to put their jokes across.
You will finish the video/workbook with
a check list of 17 specific techniques to help them communicate your ideas
in a more interesting, dynamic and effective manner.
Cantu's tips and techniques will work
whether you are speaking to two or three executives in a board room, ten
- twenty or more in a formal briefing or even if you are speaking to large
groups of 50, 75 or a 100 or more.
Click
here for more info and ordering links
How
to Be Funny
Without
Looking, Sounding, or Feeling Foolish
As a non professional humorist, how do
you start using humor in presentations ? How do you insert humor into your
talk? How do you use humor without making your speech sound like a comedy
act? How do you deal with inconsistent responses and the dreaded occasional
silence that follows what is supposed to be a funny statement, idea, or
concept? What is the difference between the professional speaker who uses
humor versus the professional comedian?
Cantu answers all these questions and
more and he gives you a guide to the top five ways pros create creating
original humor. Handout/worksheets
Video/Audio coming
soon.
Motivational/Inspirational
(and funny as well)
Work
in the Laughter Place
As a former owner of the Holy City Zoo
Comedy Club, Cantu produced nightly entertainment for Bay Area residents
showcasing some of the county's top comedians.
But these performances that you laugh
at and love today, were not universally acclaimed as creative, or entertaining
when they started. It took years of effort, hard work, and perseverance
for the their skills to evolve into what their fans today think of as effortless
and "natural" talent.
Cantu shares rarely heard stories from
his comedy club producer days and your audience members will be enthralled
as they listen to penetrating insights gleaned from working with and talking
to performers such as Sandra Bernhardt, Dana Carvey, Don Novello (Father
Guido Sarducci), Steven Wright, Robin Williams, and other now famous comedy
stars. Cantu is a virtual never-ending mother lode of amusing anecdotes,
witty observations, and laugh filled life lessons.
Video/Audio coming
soon.
Living
and Laughing with Cancer
You will learn how a bout with cancer
and a brush with death gave comedy coach John Cantu a humorous - yet riveting-keynote
he now delivers to audiences of all kinds. His rollicking stories will
entertain you, his emotional impact will move you, and his courage will
inspire you.
Cantu is six feet tall. He was down
to 140 pounds when he was operated on for what turned out to be a large
(10 centimeter) tumor. Yet though it all, Cantu never lost his sense of
humor.
During his hospital stay before and after
his operation, Cantu daily observed many funny things that were said and
done by the medical personal all around (and even a few from himself).
He learned some new lessons on giving,
receiving, and accepting care and concern from others. Cantu shares
them in this talk that is funny, touching, and intensely inspiring.
Video/Audio coming
soon.
Health Professional Humor
The
Touch of a Hand.
This is Cantu's Living
and Laughing with Cancer talk with special emphasis on the support
and care Cantu received from various on health professionals during his
illness and the emotional sustenance he got from them.
Video/Audio coming
soon.
Creativity
No
Joke! You too Can Be Creative.
You know that when Robin Williams, Bill
Cosby, Jay Leno, Whoopie Goldberg, Billy Crystal, Adam Sandler and other
established comics make you laugh, they do so by looking at the world in
a creative manner.
But what you may not know is that the
same creative techniques that they use to create jokes, one-liners, and
funny characters can be utilized by you. Those creative principles can
be and often are universally applied in other areas.
Working with literally hundreds of comedians
over the years as a comedy club producer enabled Cantu to see up close
and personal what specific methods, techniques, and tools that comics regular
use to be "creative".
Cantu shares these little known principles
with your audience members in a way that enables then to immediately
start to apply them for creative solutions to the problems in their life,
relationships and work.
Video/Audio coming
soon.
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