For my outside communication event analysis I attended a comedy skit by Buzz Sutherland. This is probably one of the hardest forms of public speaking, especially to do well. Not only does the presenter have to speak in front of a large audience but has to be fluent enough and quick enough to gain the audience's attention. Finally after all that then you need to be funny. Buzz was a good comedian because he knew how to use effective communication; he knew how to get his message across. He used a lot of nonverbal symbols or "sounds, actions, or gestures," (Sherwyn Morreale, Brian Spitzberg, & J. Barge,2007) such as funny faces or weird sounds to send his message through the channel to the receiver, the audience. Another aspect that made him a good comedian was that he was a little bit persuasive; whenever the audience wasn't following one of his skits he had some way to turn the audience on to his way of thinking and thus then understanding the joke. These are just some of the......
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