Funny Best Man Speeches

It seems that 90% of best men want their speech to be remembered most as a funny best man speech. You don’t have as many people saying they want their speech to be remembered as a sentimental one, and fewer still want theirs to be remembered as a serious one. However, strange as it may seem, the key to having a memorable funny speech means you need to have some sentimental, and even some serious lines in it.

If you are reading that opening paragraph with a quizzical expression, I will explain the logic behind it. If a best man intends giving a 5 minute funny best man speech, unless he is a professional performer, chances are that in his 5 minutes of best man jokes and one-liners he will have a few jokes fall flat on their face, and that my friends is how his speech will be remembered. He could give funny speech of four and a half minutes, but it is the 30 seconds of failure that will linger long in the memory.

Even if a best man had 5 minutes of funny best man jokes and awesome one-liners, he would need to bear in mind that the wedding is made up of more than just his friends. Family members don’t really want to hear joke after joke, they want to hear the bride and groom being praised.  The bride and groom don’t want to be embarrassed on their big day with a best man forcing joke after joke.

So how can we write a funny best man speech? You need to blend the right amount of sincerity and humor into it.

The sincere lines would typically involve:

Praising the bride and groom.

Mentioning how honored you are to be best man.

Complimenting the bridesmaids and parents of the bride and groom.

The funny sections could include:

Providing advice to the groom.

A short funny story from his youth.

How you felt when you heard he was getting married

You could also read out a couple of funny faxes or emails that you wrote yourself along with the genuine ones that need to be read out. Your speech needs to end with an inspirational wedding toast as they alone can incur a standing ovation and allow your speech to end on a high.

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