When preparing a presentation: * Consider your audience: Know their culture and preferences, assess their level of technical expertise. * Avoid sarcasm and irony, off-colour and insensitive humour, jokes that require specialised knowledge or inside jokes. * Limit humour to 10-15% of your presentation and avoid using it as a distraction.

Humor in a technical presentation is like seasoning—just enough enhances the experience, but too much overwhelms the message. I’d focus on striking the right balance. A well-placed, lighthearted comment can make you relatable and ease tension, but it should never distract from the substance of your content. Know your audience: what’s appropriate in one room may fall flat in another. Keep humor relevant and avoid anything that could undermine your credibility. Ultimately, the goal is to inform and engage—let the content shine, and use humor sparingly to connect, not compete, with your message.

If you're preparing a technical presentation for a critical audience and you're wondering how much humour is too much, here's a step-by-step guide: 1. Think about your audience and their cultural background—what works in one country might not in another. 2. Try throwing in a joke at the start and see if they laugh. If they do, you’re on the right track! P.S. The jokes should be relevant to their industry and product—don’t just rely on a joke about Christmas 🎅🏼