20 Amusing Persuasive Speech Topics

Making a speech can be a traumatic experience if you are not used to speaking in front of an audience.

If you are called upon to make a persuasive speech where can you find the best topics?

You also need to decide whether your words are addressing a serious topic, or whether you should make the speech more humorous. There is no doubt that if you can introduce a fun element you will capture the attention of your listeners more easily.

Whichever topic you decide upon, you will need to prepare and rehearse your speech many times to ensure that you get the timing just right when it comes to the punchlines.

Our Life Daily team has researched the possible options and prepared a short selection of the best and potentially most amusing.

These are our persuasive speech topics you can use – but with a humorous twist:

  1. Blondes ARE stupid.
  2. Grades don’t matter.
  3. All is not fair in burping and farting, but it is in love and war.
  4. Men should never wear skinny jeans.
  5. With a woman as a president, there would be more wars.
  6. Schools should ban Harry Potter for promoting witchcraft.
  7. A thumb is a finger.
  8. If a woman hits a man, he should be able to hit back without it being called abuse.
  9. Keep your mom off Facebook.
  10. Banks have to ban hats and sunglasses to avoid robberies.
  11. Make your friends pay every time, all the time.
  12. Guys gossip more than girls.
  13. Why being fair doesn’t work all the time.
  14. Larger passengers should be obliged to purchase two plane tickets.
  15. Reincarnation is a fact.
  16. Boys should be allowed to cross dress and wear skirts.
  17. Children of divorced parents should gain the right to divorce their parents if they choose to.
  18. How to get a spouse to hand over the remote.
  19. Why the drinking age should be lowered.
  20. How to create a cult following easily with so many dumb people around.

Maybe not all of these persuasive speech topics strike you as being funny at first glance.

But there is humor to be found in everything in life – you just need to search for it!

Are you up to the challenge? Which of these topics appeals to you?

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