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I would say that anyone who wants to be considered a good conversationalist ought to make it a point to know some fifty to a hundred stories and anecdotes to tell when the circumstances are fitting. People thirst for humor. You owe it to them to make some little contribution. That means you tell a story to please them, not yourself. You should therefore make sure you can tell it right, and have not told it to the same group before. You should also keep adding new ones to your stock.
Swift warns that:
Storytelling is subject to two unavoidable defects, frequent repetition, and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company, that he may not discover the weakness of his fund.
Rather than shift his company, a storyteller ought to keep shifting his stories.
Telling a joke or anecdote well is an art. They say of Lincoln that he
. . . was a master of the storytelling art; and when told by a master, even a dull joke may be irresistible. . . . [Lincoln's] countenance and all his features seemed to take part in the performance. As he neared the pith or point of the joke or story, every vestige of seriousness disappeared from his face. His little gray eyes sparkled ... his frame quivered with suppressed excitement (see Abraham Lincoln, ed. Edward Wagen-knecht, 1947, p. 566).
The time to learn to tell jokes is at home in the family. If a person has to learn later among friends, he ought to beg their indulgence during the first few trials by saying with a smile, "The other day I read a good story on this matter we are discussing. With your permission I'll take a chance on telling it," and then try it. If it fails, he ought to laugh and say good-naturedly, "Well, I guess I did not get it across." Later he should try again. By and by will come confidence and some success. While there isn't space here for detailed instructions on how to tell an anecdote, yet do I want to impress two rules as imperative. First, never try to tell a joke unless you have the climax, the point of it, well and clear in mind; secondly, get over the preliminaries quickly but slow up as you reach the climax. Possibly even pause a bit before the crucial word, and then say it with a clarity and force which cannot be muffed. Our previous rules for effective pitch and tempo are never needed more than in anecdotage.
Related terms include teaching speaking and fluency speaking.
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