Chapter 18: Speaking to Entertain
The Nature of Entertainment
![A man entertaining a crowd on the street](https://open.lib.umn.edu/app/uploads/sites/189/2016/10/18.0.0N.jpg)
Alan Bell – Entertaining – CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Often the speaking opportunities life brings our way have nothing to do specifically with informing or persuading an audience; instead, we are asked to speak to entertain. Whether you are standing up to give an award speech or a toast, knowing how to deliver speeches in a variety of different contexts is the nature of entertaining speaking. In this chapter, we are going to explore what entertaining speeches are; we will also examine two specific types of entertaining speeches: special-occasion speeches and keynote speeches.