Best man speech

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Welton Toffee

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Right. This time next month my big brother is getting married, and for reasons only known to him he's decided that having this idiot as best man is a good idea. Which of course means I'm expected to make an amusing and witty speech. Now I've never done any sort of speech before and I tend to avoid being the centre of attention at all costs. Also I'm not funny. So it's going to go well..

Have any of you lot done a best man speech before? Any tips/surefire gags I should throw in there?

I have so far written bugger all and am ever so slightly bricking it!
 

I've been asked to do it once but fortunately the girl broke the engagement before I actually had to give it, so result there really.

Plus, my main contribution to his life was introducing him to the lad who first offered him weed which led to his crippling drug addiction, so it was a bit odd that I was his best man anyhow.
 
don't look up stuff on the internet for the speech. you can tell someone who has done that a mile off when listening to the speech.
 

I'm being a best man for the first time this Saturday!!! Totally with you about hating the limelight

Luckily my friend totally whimped out and chose 3 of us. Thank God he did

From my experiences of going to about 10 weddings in the last year alone, don't over do it. The best man at a wedding the other week blatantly printed off "The Top 100 Funniest Best Man Jokes" and spent about an hour going through them. It doesn't have to go on forever, just make it personal and remember to say the Bridesmaids look beautiful. I think that's a rule

We've made a bit of a tribute video for him and some kind of Old School PowerPoint presentation

Good luck!
 
When my brother got married his mate Mark was his best man....lovely fella , been a family friend for years and can talk the skin off a rice pudding. Come the wedding day mark stood up to start his speech by saying " I am extremely proud and honoured to be stood in front of you all today as Paul's best man....." at this point he broke down in floods of tears and had to be taken out of the room ha ha.......best speech i've ever seen or heard.
 
I've done 2 best man speeches, both for my big brother. The first one I did I got my mate to come play guitar and I sung the speech as a blues. Went down quite well, apart from 1 line which had my mum cringing. I think it went something like "when we were at school (wa waah wah wa) we went separate ways (wa waah wah wa) I was doing e's (wa waah wah wa) while you were getting a's"

the 2nd was over in Detroit, and I again managed to upset everyone by opening the speech with "I was a bit nervous about this speech so I've prepared a few lines, and now i've snorted them I feel much better"

I found a great line off the internet, "they had a classic romance. She offered her honour. He Honoured her offer. And ever since then he's been onn her and off her"

just google best man's speeches, loads of free stuff knocking round.
 
Like Alio said I'd avoid too many of the clichéd best man jokes that everyone's heard before.

If you want to be funny, you don't need to be naturally funny, just try some relatable humour. Presumably many of the people at the wedding know the groom reasonably well, so mention certain things about him which may be funny that the audience will get -- be that past events or characteristics about him.

Personally I'd end with something nice and sentimental, before throwing in one great sign off joke. Even if you balls up most of it, the last bit's the most memorable and important -- either a chance to redeem a speech or a chance to ensure it's a great one.

Good luck anyway mate. You seem like a good humoured bloke on here, so assuming you don't have any serious public speaking problems I'm sure it will go okay! (y)
 
ricardobee said:
I've done 2 best man speeches, both for my big brother. The first one I did I got my mate to come play guitar and I sung the speech as a blues. Went down quite well, apart from 1 line which had my mum cringing. I think it went something like "when we were at school (wa waah wah wa) we went separate ways (wa waah wah wa) I was doing e's (wa waah wah wa) while you were getting a's"

the 2nd was over in Detroit, and I again managed to upset everyone by opening the speech with "I was a bit nervous about this speech so I've prepared a few lines, and now i've snorted them I feel much better"

I found a great line off the internet, "they had a classic romance. She offered her honour. He Honoured her offer. And ever since then he's been onn her and off her"

just google best man's speeches, loads of free stuff knocking round.
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Hahahahahaha
 

I was an usher at my brothers wedding and his best man asked me a few months in advance to scan in some old pictures, send him some old footage on tape from when they were kids etc. it was epic, he hooked up his laptop to a projector then proceeded to do an IT (my bro works in IT) PowerPoint presentation all about him and the music and videos he used to make with dads old video camera when he was like 13. Nothing funnier than seeing someone dance round in a pair of spliffy jeans and an eclipse t-shirt to Junglemania 3...

Speech wise Welts, just start typing stuff that comes into your head then rearrange it afterwards and add a few touch ups. If you're not confident with the jokes, then just be thoughtful and nice. It will work out.

Good luck pal.
 
I think it's good if you keep it natural and conversational- almost as if you're just thinking up stuff on the spot. That's what worked for me when I did it. When people try and make it into a professional stand up routine, it looks contrived and can be annoying especially if they use props ffs (I've seen people use laptops and a screens etc). Everyone's on your side, so if you just relate some funny stuff about the groom, they'll love you. Oh and if you have to do the card/message reading out bit, that's a good chance to take the piss too.
 
Muggins said:
I was an usher at my brothers wedding and his best man asked me a few months in advance to scan in some old pictures, send him some old footage on tape from when they were kids etc. it was epic, he hooked up his laptop to a projector then proceeded to do an IT (my bro works in IT) PowerPoint presentation all about him and the music and videos he used to make with dads old video camera when he was like 13. Nothing funnier than seeing someone dance round in a pair of spliffy jeans and an eclipse t-shirt to Junglemania 3...

Speech wise Welts, just start typing stuff that comes into your head then rearrange it afterwards and add a few touch ups. If you're not confident with the jokes, then just be thoughtful and nice. It will work out.

Good luck pal.
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Ha ha I swear I hadn't read your post Muggins when I wrote mine!
 

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