也有很多朋友问过我脱口秀和演讲有什么区别，今天这个回答我是拿我自己的亲身经历作为故事来解答大家。首先我最开始是玩演讲的，我一毕业了就不太甘于自己只是在工作，业余就想去参加社交活动，其中一个社交活动呢是演讲会英文的，那我觉得我自己英语不错也是在外企工作嘛，那就想去再交一些朋友。结果去了之后我就开始对上台、对参加比赛、对逗人笑产生了很浓厚的兴趣，那个是个小圈子讲英语的人本身就不多，但是大家也相互之间非常的鼓励，而你无论讲什么下面的人都是嗯嗯点头要不就鼓掌要不就微笑，就特别的鼓励你让你站到台上，那个自信心越来越多、越来越多甚至有些爆棚，这就是我走向演讲之路。
结果有一天我接触到脱口秀准备做脱口秀了，我就把演讲那一套东西搬到了脱口秀，这当然我以前上台的经历、参加比赛的经历都是有作用的，只是我认为好笑的下面的观众都没啥反应，我认为不好笑的好像他们还觉得有点意思，我就想不明白为什么，因为没有这样的一些基础知识。后来呢我去参加了在香港TOC Jami Gong那边他们的培训课，哦我才了解到了脱口秀就是铺垫爆点、铺垫爆点这样的一些基本结构，而演讲完全不是这样的一个结构，我就觉得哇脱口秀是不一样的，而且演讲呢周围的人可能是冲着你是主办方或者你这个人或者你的话题来的，而脱口秀他是买了票的那大家都是观众都是客户啊，于是他们都可以这样抱着手来听你来逗我笑啊，于是你要说的话题你要做的节奏都不一样。
我就在想我以前学的演讲是白学了，而且我去演讲会我也不太爱去了，因为你看你们都不懂脱口秀你们都是一帮人在自嗨，直到有一次从我们这俱乐部出来了一位某某杨，哈他已经比较有名了所以不说他名字，然后他有一段时间学会了脱口秀然后那感觉怎么比我们这些老的脱口秀演员更好，他每一周的开放麦都能出一篇新的7分钟的表演而且特别的爆笑，下面的观众都很喜欢他，有一些观众就每一周都会来就想来看这位的表演。后来我就问他你为什么这段时间这么厉害你到底哪个地方开窍了，他就跟我说他其实呢内心里有浓浓的想要表达的一些东西，我一听我豁然开朗，但是我又产生疑惑了，我就问他那你会觉得脱口秀和演讲有什么区别吗。
他的回答居然是我认为脱口秀和演讲是一样的，脱口秀它就是一种演讲，我当时一听我有点震惊，我在那一瞬间我突然觉得我以前所有学的演讲技巧它是能够用上的。后来我才明白脱口秀它就是一种演讲，它是在宏观结构上有非常严谨的演讲结构，而在微观结构上它是一种幽默的铺垫爆点结构，我以前把这两个东西搞混了，以为在微观上要铺垫爆点而宏观上它的结构就可以不严谨了你就可以不表达了，于是我总是上台去讲一些乱七八糟的东西。
我相信很多学演讲的朋友会非常看不惯刚刚学脱口秀的朋友就是那些段子特别的零散，而学脱口秀的朋友也很不喜欢演讲里面都不幽默不风趣没意思，但真正一个好的演讲走到很高水平的我们看到一些演讲比赛的他有很好的内涵但是也充满了笑声，而我们看到一些好的脱口秀大咖级别的无论是几分钟的、十几分钟的还是整场的，你都知道他在传递他对这个世界的世界观，所以脱口秀跟演讲我觉得它是一回事，至少是一个硬币的两面，你同意吗。
Many friends have asked me what’s the difference between talk show and speech; today, I will answer using my own personal experience as a story to answer you. First, I started with speeches; after I graduated, I wasn’t content with just working, so I wanted to participate in social activities in my spare time; one of the social activities was an English-speaking speech club; I thought my English was good, and I worked in a foreign company, so I wanted to make some more friends. But after I went there, I started to be interested in and participate in competitions and making people laugh; it was a small circle; there weren’t many people who spoke English, but everyone encouraged each other; no matter what you said, the people below would say um, nodding, clapping, or smile, encouraging you to stand on the stage, and your confidence grew more and more and even overflowing; this is how I started my journey to public speaking.
Then one day, I came into contact with talk shows and prepared to do a talk show; I applied my speech skills to the talk show; of course, my previous experience of being on stage and participating in competitions were helpful, but what I thought was funny the audience didn’t respond much; I thought it wasn’t funny, they seemed to find it interesting; I just couldn’t figure out why because I didn’t have such basic knowledge. Later, I went to participate in TOC in Hong Kong, Jami Gong over there their training class; I just realized that a talk show is about building up and exploding, the basic structure of setup and punchline, but speech is not like that at all; I thought wow, talk shows are different, and for speeches, people around you may be targeting you as the organizer or you as a person or your topic, while the talk show, he bought a ticket, everyone is an audience, are they all customers, so they can listen with their hands crossed, and you can make me laugh, so the topics you want to talk about and the rhythm you do are different.
I thought I’ve learned nothing from my previous speeches, and I don’t like going to speech events anymore because you don’t understand stand-up comedy, you are all just enjoying yourself, until one time a Yang came out of our club; he was already quite famous, so I won’t mention his name; then he learned stand-up comedy for a while, and then I felt was better than us old stand-up comedians; he could perform a new seven-minute show every week at the open mic, and it was very funny; the audience loved him very much; some audience members come every week just wanted to see this guy perform. Later, I asked him why you are so good at this time, what part of you has suddenly become enlightened; he told me that actually, he had something he wanted to express deeply inside; I suddenly understood, but I was puzzled again; I asked him so do you think what’s the difference between talk show and speech.
His answer was I think talk show and speech are the same, I think talk show is a kind of speech; I was a little shocked when I heard that; at that moment, I suddenly felt that all the speech skills I had learned before could be applied. Later, I realized that a talk show is just a kind of speech; in the macro structure, it has a very rigorous speech structure, but at the micro level, it’s sort of a fodder for humor; I used to confuse these two things, thinking that the micro-structure should be a joke while macroscopically, its structure can be less rigorous, and you can not express it, so I always went on stage to talk about random things.
I believe many friends who study speech will be very disgusted with friends who just learn stand-up comedy whose jokes are very scattered, and friends who learn stand-up comedy don’t like it either; speeches are not humorous, not humorous, and boring, but a really good speech that reaches a high level, we can see some speech contests, they have good connotations but also full of laughter, and we see some good talk shows or a master, whether it’s a few minutes or even ten minutes or a whole show, you know that they are conveying their worldview of the world, so talk shows and speeches I think they are the same thing, at least they are two sides of the same coin; do you agree?
