Why Add Humour To Your Speeches?

• Do you want to be a funnier speaker?
• Do you want to establish a bond with your audience?
• Learn techniques to win over a hostile audience?
• Learn how to keep your audience interested?
• Emphasize or illustrate a point?
• Help people remember you?
  

Incorporating humour into your speeches can help you do this and more!
People pay more attention to a speaker who uses humour.
Humour makes an impression and can break the ice or defuse a situation.

Wit Pleasure Advanced Toastmasters can help you use humour in the speeches
you normally give to attract and retain the audience's interest and to make points effectively.

You don't need to be funny to join. Wit Pleasure is a safe place to learn how!

For more information email calgaryhumourTM@gmail.com



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so, Reach into my Pants and Pull out a Question
(not what you think)

OK, it is what you think - this started off the evening at the 2010 Table Topics competition.
The selection process - choosing one of three questions for the competition by the first contestant where the three separate pieces of paper each containing a different question which were placed within pockets and other openings in a pair of pants (not worn). this set the stage for an evening of laughter and great entertainment.

This year we had the same three competitors for both contests.
And the Winners are:

Grant Hanna - 1st Place Table Topics
Deborah Thompson - 2nd Place Table Topics
Dayna Tees - 3rd Place Table Topics

Grant Hanna - 1st Place Humourous
Dayna Tees - 2nd Place Humourous
Deborah Thompson - 3rd Place Humourous

Thank you to all our guests that joined us for the evening and a special welcome to those who have joined our membership for this year. We are accepting New Members all year round (annual dues are only $88). check us out.



Another Year Commencing September 2010
Same Bat Time. Same Bat Channel

Join us for our Club Contests on Monday, September 20th.
Starting precisely at 7:30 we have an action-packed evening with both contests - Table Topics and Humourous Speech - taking place that same night.
We'd love to have you as a Guest and know you would benefit as a Member.

If you've never visited us before, we are in the Suncor Building (previously known as PetroCanada Centre)
150 - 6 Ave SW (17th Flr. West Tower)
Parking: James Short Parkade, 112-5 Ave SW $2 after 4 pm. (north across street from Petro-Can).
The meeting begins at 7:30. Individuals must wait for the greeter at the West Tower Floors 1-17 Elevator lobby, if late call 403-296-8981 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 403-296-8981 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 403-296-8981 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.






Wit Pleasure Members Recognized throughout Western Canada
and North-Western United States
part of the North American continent
as the District 42 Winners (pronounced "weiners")

David Haines - 2009 Humourous Speech
Nandini Venkatesan - 2010 Evaluations
Russ Dantu - 2010 International Speech

Could they have won without being members of our Club? Perhaps.

Did being a Member of Wit Pleasure add to their speeches; increased the calibre of their presentation; provided opportunity to utilize techniques practiced in our meetings; been given unconditional support not found in any other venue outside of AA meetings; forced to become better or else be ridiculed by "friends" who just point and laugh and hurl insults at them to increase their tolerance of hecklers which in turn prepare them for family dinner events... Absolutely!

We are so proud of you. Remember to mention the Club whenever the opportunity arises (like in church or at funerals or when being pulled over for speeding). And remember to mention Names! - none of that "so many people to thank they know who they are" CRAP. First and last names preferably.

Oh Ya, one more thing. We need to update this more often than just once a year when Russ wins a contest or we'll have to change the name of this site.








80 Toastmasters walk into a bar...
Wit Pleasure Charter Party at The Comedy Cave in Calgary - January 18, 2009
(most of the Charter members seen above)


Thank you soo much for everyone who joined us at our Charter Party on Sunday. Other than a few technical glitches I think it went off pretty well. The food was great. The venue was inspiring. The pomp and circumstance was enjoyable and I think I even heard a couple of laughs...

My thanks again to Jack and staff at The Comedy Cave for their hospitality and generosity ($800 worth of future admission tickets). Also to Brad Upton of Seattle who was Headlining at the Cave this past week. What a thrill to see a master at work.

Kudos and Congratulations to all those who ventured onto the stage and shared with us their gift of standup. Everyone, on stage and in the audience, seemed to have enjoyed themselves and you heard how laughter is contagious. It filled the room and hardly anyone left early (even though we were running about an hour overtime).

Looking forward to any pictures you would like to send us or post. I'm very proud and deeply honoured to be a part of this group. Thanks again to everyone for their contributions of their gifts.

Same time next year?

Palmo Carpino, DTM
President 2008-2009




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