well had some funny parts in his speech to keep the audience awoke. He made jokes on mostly everything he said. A joke was made about every five minutes. The joke he made was when he said that he wouldn’t go to long. All of the graduates of Howard just laughed. I think jokes are an essential part of your speech. If you don’t have jokes than your speech will always be on the boring side. I think a joke should be made about two to three minutes of every speech that you make to the public. President Clinton’s State of the Union even have jokes in it. I hate it when a public speaker make a speech that last about an hour an never have a single joke. I not saying to try to be a funnyman but just let some semi-funny jokes come at your mouth. Colin Powell didn’t have any hilarious jokes but it was enough to grab the audience attention. I remember at my high school graduation when the valor victorian made her speech. I t was the most boring speech in George Washington High School history. She didn’t even mention a word about the people who was killed. That speech made me so sick to my stomach. Colin Powell on the other hand made points about the situation that Howard University was going through. He even made a joke about where was Connie Chung (making reference on the news anchor getting fired for making false reports about Howard University).Distractions are a thing that happens in all speeches. Colin Powell had distractions in his speech. A squirrel jump into some woman pocketbook and the whole crowd just erupted as if somebody had been shot. Colin Powell handles this situation by waiting for the crowd to settle down. The crowd to too long to settle down so Colin Powell made a joke. This situation was handled so perfectly by Colin Powell. He didn’t want to be rude so he made a joke towards the people so that they would know that he was ready to resume his speech. Distractions are som...
