When you're using humor in your stories, don't forget to tell people what you were thinking you can bring in self talk. Sometimes that can make it funnier. So much of humor, comedy. You hear this all the time is about timing. What is timing? Well, it's really about pausing, not racing.

Too many people when they're giving presentations or telling stories are just racing along. They're reading as if they were reading a piece of paper and they're reading in their own mind. But but but the mind can't catch up with it. So you need to give people space to connect the dots to visualize this embarrassing thing that just happened to you to answer in their own mind what they would be thinking. So when people talk about timing, it's quite often just pausing more, and not racing. So you got to really factor that in If you tell a story and he people time to think about it quite often they'll come to their own conclusion that it was in fact funny.