Have you ever been stuck trying to think of a good topic for a speech? Standing up in front of a class or group can make anyone feel scared. But what if your speech could make people laugh while they learn? Funny demonstration speeches do just that! They show others how to do something in a way that brings smiles and giggles.
Many people worry about giving speeches. The good news is that picking a funny topic makes it easier for both you and your listeners. When people laugh, they pay better attention and have more fun. This makes your job as a speaker much easier too!
Funny Demonstration Speech Ideas
Pick any of these ideas and have fun with your speech. These topics will help you teach your audience something new while keeping them laughing from start to finish.
1. How to Wrap a Cat as a Present
Cats and wrapping paper are a funny mix! Start by picking a calm cat that likes to be held. Use a big, soft blanket instead of real wrapping paper. Show how to gently wrap the cat while leaving its head free, making it look like a furry gift.
Getting the timing right is key for this speech. Cats don’t stay still for long, so practice making quick, loose wraps that don’t upset your pet. Make sure to talk about safety first – never use tape, string, or real wrapping supplies on a pet, and always watch for signs that the cat wants to get free.
2. How to Eat a Cupcake Like a Proper Lady or Gentleman
This funny speech shows the “right” way to eat a cupcake at a fancy party. Bring real cupcakes and show all the silly steps – using tiny bites, dabbing your mouth with a napkin after each bite, and making funny faces that show you’re enjoying it “properly.”
Your audience will love watching you act overly proper with such a simple food. You can even dress up with gloves and a fancy hat to make it more funny. End your speech by showing the “wrong way” – taking a big bite that gets frosting all over your face, which always gets big laughs.
3. How to Send a Text Message Like Your Grandparent
For this speech, pretend to be an older person who just got their first smartphone. Hold the phone at arm’s length, squint at it, and type with just one finger – very slowly. Make big, dramatic motions as you hunt for each letter on the keyboard.
Keep the fun going by reading what you’re typing out loud in a shaky voice. Show how to add way too many emojis to a simple message. This speech works great because it’s something everyone can relate to, whether they’ve watched their own grandparents text or have seen older folks struggle with new tech.
4. How to Survive a Boring Class Without Getting Caught
This demonstration will have students and teachers laughing! Show funny tricks like hiding a yawn behind a thoughtful pose or drawing eyes on your eyelids so you look awake. Use props like a fake book cover that hides a comic book inside.
The best part is showing “secret signals” friends can use to wake each other up before the teacher notices someone nodding off. Just make sure to end by saying good students don’t actually do these things! Teachers will laugh because they’ve seen it all, and students will laugh because they’ve thought about trying these tricks.
5. How to Take the Perfect Selfie in Public Places
Bring a phone and show all the silly poses and faces people make while taking selfies. Demonstrate stretching your arm way out, using weird angles, and making duck lips or peace signs. Show how people become completely unaware of others staring at them.
Your demonstration should include trying to get the right lighting by moving to strange spots, and taking 50 photos that all look the same. This speech works well because everyone has seen someone taking awkward selfies, and most people have done it themselves!
6. How to Walk in Heels for the First Time
This funny demonstration works great for all speakers, not just girls! Bring a pair of very high heels and show how wobbly and unsure a first-timer looks. Take tiny steps, wave your arms for balance, and grab onto nearby objects for support.
The audience will crack up watching you try different walking styles – the penguin walk, the tightrope walker, and the “about to fall any second” walk. This speech gets extra laughs if you’re someone who clearly doesn’t wear heels regularly, like a boy or a girl known for always wearing sneakers.
7. How to Hide Vegetables in a Kid’s Meal
Parents will nod while kids groan as you show sneaky ways to hide healthy foods. Bring real food items and show how to chop veggies super tiny, hide them under cheese, or disguise them in tasty sauces. Act like a spy on a secret mission as you slip spinach into a brownie mix.
What makes this speech so funny is your acting – talk in a whisper like you’re sharing top-secret information, and look over your shoulder as if making sure no kids are spying on you. End with a taste test where you pretend to be a picky kid who can’t tell the food has vegetables.
8. How to Fake Being Sick to Skip School
Start by saying this is “for entertainment only” so teachers know you’re not really telling kids to skip school. Then show all the classic tricks – the thermometer under hot water, fake coughing that sounds totally real (until mom leaves the room), and the sad, sickly face that quickly changes to a smile when no adults are looking.
Your audience will laugh as you show increasingly silly methods, like using makeup to look pale or practicing your “sick voice.” End with the irony that faking sick takes more work than just going to school, and how fakers often miss fun days while real sick days are boring.
9. How to Dance at a Wedding When You Can’t Dance
Everyone has been at a party where they felt awkward dancing. Show funny “safe” moves anyone can do, like the “point at the ceiling then the floor,” the “sway side to side while nodding,” and the classic “just move your arms while keeping your feet still.”
The laughs will keep coming as you demonstrate increasingly silly “backup plans” for when someone asks you to dance. Show how to volunteer to get drinks, pretend to take an important phone call, or suddenly need to use the bathroom. End with an over-the-top bad dance move that shows confidence is really all that matters.
10. How to Pretend You’re Listening in a Boring Conversation
We’ve all been stuck in talks where we stopped paying attention. Show the funny tricks people use – the strategic nod, the “thoughtful” hand on chin pose, and the well-timed “hmm” or “interesting” comments that work even when you have no idea what was just said.
Your speech gets funnier as you show what happens when these tricks fail. Act out the panic when someone asks, “So what do you think?” and you have no clue what they’ve been talking about. End with the “emergency exit” strategies like looking at your watch and saying you’re late for something.
11. How to Hide a Bad Haircut
Bring props like hats, headbands, and scarves to show increasingly desperate ways to hide hair disasters. Start with subtle approaches like a new part or small accessories, then move to more obvious solutions like wearing a hoodie indoors or wrapping your entire head in a scarf.
The audience will laugh as your solutions get more and more extreme. Show the classic “hat indoors” technique, complete with excuses for why you can’t take it off. End with the final, desperate solution – the “just shave it all off and start over” approach, using a bald cap for extra giggles.
12. How to Pack a Suitcase for People Who Overpack
Start with a normal-sized suitcase and way too many clothes. Show funny packing “techniques” like the “sit on the suitcase while someone else zips it” method. Demonstrate rolling, stuffing, and cramming items in impossible ways.
The laugh factor increases when you show what happens at the airport – acting out the struggle to lift the heavy bag, the panic when it’s over the weight limit, and the embarrassment of having to unpack personal items at the check-in counter. End with wearing multiple layers of clothes to avoid packing them, looking like a puffy snowman.
13. How to Eat Messy Foods in Front of Your Crush
This speech tackles a very real fear – eating tricky foods on dates. Bring messy props like spaghetti, tacos, or wings. Show both bad approaches (taking huge bites) and “sophisticated” solutions that are equally funny, like cutting spaghetti with scissors or eating a burger with a knife and fork.
Your audience will laugh as you demonstrate the napkin bib, the check-your-teeth-every-two-seconds method, and the “tiny bird bites” that would make a meal last four hours. The best laughs come when you show the reality – that trying to eat “perfectly” usually leads to bigger messes than just eating normally.
14. How to Look Busy at Work When You’re Not
Everyone has had slow days at work or school. Show funny ways people pretend to be productive – carrying a paper and walking fast, typing randomly when the boss walks by, or having a fake important phone call that’s actually with no one.
The demonstration gets funnier as you show increasingly silly methods, like creating a “work fort” with stacks of papers or books so no one can see you’re playing games on your phone. End with what happens when you get caught – the quick alt-tab to a spreadsheet or the “I was just thinking deeply about this project” excuse.
15. How to Win Arguments With Your Parents
This speech gives “tips” that everyone knows never actually work! Show classic kid strategies like the persistent “why?” technique, the “but all my friends are allowed to” approach, and the dramatic “this is ruining my life” collapse onto the floor.
Parents in the audience will laugh knowingly while kids will laugh because they’ve tried these methods themselves. The funniest part is showing how parents always have a comeback for each strategy. End with the truth – that good behavior and actual discussion work better than any trick.
16. How to Hide That You Broke Something Valuable
Bring a “broken” item (something that looks broken but isn’t really) and show increasingly desperate cover-up attempts. Start with trying to glue it back together, then move to hiding the evidence, and finally trying to blame it on a pet or sibling.
The comedy builds as your fixes get worse instead of better, and your excuses become more far-fetched. “It was already broken” or “It must have been the wind” will get knowing laughs from everyone who’s ever tried to avoid getting in trouble. End with the moral that honesty is easier than all these failed cover-ups.
17. How to Pretend You Know About Sports When You Don’t
Bring sports gear and show how to fake your way through sports talk. Demonstrate nodding while saying vague things like “Did you see that amazing play?” or “The referee totally made a bad call there!” Show how to quickly change subjects when someone asks a specific question.
The speech gets funnier when you show what happens when your cover is blown – like cheering at the wrong time or mixing up basic sports terms. End with how to escape sports conversations by suddenly needing to use the bathroom or check an “important text.”
18. How to Shop for Groceries When You’re Hungry
Bring an empty shopping basket and show how a quick trip for milk turns into a cart full of snacks. Act out the battle between your sensible brain and your hungry stomach as you pass the cookie aisle. Show the classic “pick up, put back, pick up again” dance we do with treats.
Your audience will laugh as you show the “hungry shopper walk” – moving slower near tasty foods and faster past healthy options. End with the punchline of getting home with bags of food but nothing for the meal you actually planned to make.
19. How to Deal With a Scary Movie When You’re Scared
Bring a TV remote and popcorn to show funny ways people cope with scary movies. Demonstrate classic techniques like watching through your fingers, using a pillow as a shield, or suddenly needing to use the bathroom during the scariest parts.
Get laughs by showing the person who pretends not to be scared but jumps at every noise, or the one who talks through scary scenes to seem brave: “Oh, I can totally see the fake blood there!” End with the friend who asks a million questions during the movie because they had their eyes closed during the important parts.
20. How to Pretend You Understand Modern Art
Bring prints of abstract art and show funny ways people act when they don’t get it. Demonstrate standing with hand on chin saying things like, “The artist’s use of negative space clearly represents the emptiness of modern society” while having no idea what you’re talking about.
The humor builds as you show increasingly silly “art critic” poses and nonsense comments. “The blue clearly symbolizes… blue things.” Get laughs by showing the panic when someone asks what you think it means, and the relief when you can just nod along with someone else’s opinion.
21. How to Walk on Ice Without Falling
This physical comedy works great in winter months. Show the different walking styles people use on icy sidewalks – the penguin shuffle, the arms-out balance walk, and the “grab onto anything nearby” technique. Use an open space to demonstrate the tiny, careful steps.
Your audience will laugh as you show what we all look like trying not to slip, complete with the arms windmilling when balance is lost. The biggest laugh comes from showing the “play it cool” move after someone does fall – looking around to see if anyone noticed, then getting up and walking away quickly.
22. How to Pretend You’re Awake During Morning Classes
Bring a desk setup and show all the tricks tired students use. Demonstrate propping your head on your hand so you look alert while actually sleeping, or hiding behind a large book or laptop. Show the classic “jerk awake” move when your name is called.
The comedy builds as you show increasingly desperate attempts to look awake, like drawing eyes on paper and putting them over your sunglasses. End with what teachers know is a dead giveaway – the snoring student who claims they were “just breathing heavily.”
23. How to Take Your Pet to the Vet
Bring a stuffed animal to show the comedy of getting an unwilling pet to the doctor. Show trying to find the cat that somehow knows it’s vet day, or trying to get a dog into the car when it suddenly becomes a 100-pound paperweight that won’t budge.
The audience will laugh as you act out both pet and owner roles – the dramatic pet that acts like it’s going to its doom, and the owner who switches between sweet talk (“It’s just a check-up!”) and bribes (“Look, treats!”). End with the pet that acts badly at the vet but makes you look crazy by behaving perfectly once the doctor comes in.
24. How to Look Smart in Class Without Studying
This speech pokes fun at students who try to fake their way through class. Show techniques like nodding thoughtfully, writing random notes to look busy, or asking questions about the material covered last week to avoid today’s topics. Demonstrate the art of answering questions with questions.
The humor builds as you show increasingly silly methods, like wearing glasses to “look smarter” or using big words incorrectly. End with what teachers always know – that actually studying takes less work than all these tricks, and has better results!
25. How to Use Technology Around Grandparents
Bring a phone or laptop and show how people act differently using tech around older family members. Demonstrate typing very slowly so they can follow along, explaining simple terms in overly complex ways, and the forced patience of repeating the same instructions many times.
Get laughs by showing the panic when grandparents ask, “What does this button do?” or the fear when they start randomly clicking things. End with the irony that while you’re teaching them, they’re secretly taking screenshots and accidentally opening 57 browser tabs.
Wrapping Up
Giving a funny demonstration speech helps both you and your audience have a good time. When people laugh, they pay better attention to what you’re teaching them. Plus, being funny makes you less scared about speaking in front of groups.
Pick a topic that makes you smile, practice until you feel good about it, and then have fun! Your audience will enjoy learning something new while having a laugh. And you might find that giving speeches isn’t so scary after all.