The April 2009 issue of Toastmaster Magazine, a magazine for public speakers, features

Clifton Toastmasters, who meet at a men’s homeless shelter in Atlanta, GA.

“A club provides skills, confidence for men in an Atlanta shelter.”

How to Handle a Heckler

featuring specific techniques such as

• Maintain control at comedy stores by applying comedic pressure to the heckler, or applying indirect pressure to whom he’s with (like his wife)
• Ease up on maintaining control at corporate speeches
• Making a connection by learning before hand what conflicts or cliches are ripe for cracking jokes, then using those to move your speech along past a heckler’s yell
• Thanking someone who yells something out, calling him your “speech writer,” and moving on

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