Sunday, March 20, 2011
Speech !
(Youtube uploader: corey11689)
This video is about Ellen DeGeneres when she was doing stand-up comedy in her earlier career. Her speech was titled "Waving to someone you don't know". She talks about people calling out to someone they recognised as their friend, but actually it was the wrong person. It is a very short video, however, I like her speech because she varies her voice and tone well. The way she changes her voice according to her speech is a job well done. Also, if you have watched the video, you will realise that she moves her body around the stage and poses at different timing. Furthermore, her body language helps to express her speech better and sometimes, it helps to make her speech more entertaining and funny. In her speech, she also pauses at certain points of time and this helps to improve on her speech as she can gain attention when pausing. She also pauses at the correct time for the audience to laugh. All of this helps to show that how well Ellen can present herself and how good is she as a speaker. In addition, her content of her speech is amusing and allows audience to enjoy themselves when hearing it. As I like this kind of speeches that make me laugh, I really enjoyed watching this video. As for now, Ellen has her own show and her website (
http://ellen.warnerbros.com/). I applaud her for her ability to speak so well and I enjoy watching her show as well !
Posted by Yi Jie at 2:32 PM
