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Pudd'nHead Wilson Dramatized

In this brief speech, Mark Twain, arguably the first great humorous keynote speaker states “Never in my life have I been able to make a speech with preparation.” That he made this short speech without preparation can be taken with a grain of salt. Mark Twain was not the best humorous keynote business speaker of his day by accident. In addition to being wonderfully gifted, he worked amazingly hard at perfecting the craft of humorous business speaker and humorous keynote speaker. His great friend and confidant William D. Howells (mentioned in this speech) said that this great humorous keynote speaker “studied every word and syllable and memorized them by a system on mnemonics peculiar to himself.” Even the so-called extemporaneous speeches from this magnificent orator and superbly humorous keynote speaker were well practiced.

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PUDD'NHEAD WILSON DRAMATIZED

When Mr. Clemens arrived from Europe in 1895 one of the first

things he did was to see the dramatization of Pudd'nhead

Wilson. The audience becoming aware of the fact that Mr.

Clemens was in the house called upon him for a speech.

Never in my life have I been able to make a speech without preparation,

and I assure you that this position in which I find myself is one totally

unexpected.

I have been hemmed in all day by William Dean Howells and other frivolous

persons, and I have been talking about everything in the world except

that of which speeches are constructed. Then, too, seven days on the

water is not conducive to speech-making. I will only say that I

congratulate Mr. Mayhew; he has certainly made a delightful play out of

my rubbish. His is a charming gift. Confidentially I have always had

an idea that I was well equipped to write plays, but I have never

encountered a manager who has agreed with me.

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