21st Birthday speech for a sister

(Sent by email a few days ago)

Dear doctor needing a few tips on how to deliver a funny 21st speech for my sister any advice would be grateful.

yours sincerely


Ian

Ian - unfortunately email is not the best way to contact us as it comes in with a lot of spam. Putting a message on the board is the best way to get an answer.

The key to a 21st Birthday speech is to keep it short and humorous. No body ever complained about a speech being too short! People will want to get on with the party.

Generally speaking best to start off with a little praise with some of the positive attributes and then to bring in a few funny anecdotes from her childhood (three should be sufficient). You need though to keep them within the comfort zone of the audience, but enough to make her blush. You may at this stage also want to bring out some photos of her growing up - particularly if they look any different from how she looks today.

End the speech with words along the line of how she has grown up to be a lovely/kind/ beautiful/ kind/ considerate girl and you are proud that she is your sister.

End by proposing a toast.

I hope that this helps.

Please let me know how you have got on

Kind regards

Thanks Jonty I had left it a bit late to start asking for advice. The birthday doo was on Friday but I managed to get something into a rhyme and didn't offend her or make her blush which is good.

Anyway thanks for getting back

Regards

I Harvey

One technique for a 21st brithday speech is to cast back in time to see what was in the news the year that she was born.

Here are a couple of extracts from 1983.

IBM announced the PC XT - the first widespread PC with an operating system designed by Microsoft.
The ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
Film of the year was 'Return of the Jedi'
Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Pop singer Michael Jackson performs his Moonwalk dance manoeuvre for the first time during his performance of Billie Jean
Neil Kinnock elected leader of the Labour Party
Compulsory wearing of seat belts becomes law in the UK.

You can find more stories on wikipaedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983

Dear Doctor
I need your help I am throwning a 21st birthday for myself, and I feel I need to say a little something to thank everyone for coming and how much my friends and family mean to me. Can you help?

You have not provided a lot for me to go on.

In this case it would probably work well to be sincere about much how your family and friends mean to you. It may be a good chance to recap on a few stories from you childhood that showed that despite getting into a few scrapes they were with you when you needed it. These could be anything from the time when you dropped a tin of paint on the carpet - to a spell of illness in hospital.

I hope that this helps

I think you should just give her a speech from YOUR heart and hand her the liquor bottle because her mind is probably already on getting messed up. And i think that would be hilarious.