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When you have to speak in front of a large crowd of people—What’s most people you had to talk in front of??
Going to a funeral, they want me to give speech there, probably like 100 or 150 people there!!
When I was diagnosed with genital herpes I gathered the women I invited the women I had slept with (70+) to my house. I broke the news that I gave each one of them herpes from my porch using a megaphone and my car’s subwoofer.
Afterwords, I served light refreshments and gave them goody bags filled with penis-shaped candies, Swedish berries, and a pregnancy test kit (I don’t use condoms).
Sure, it burns a little when I pee but the connections I made were worth it.
I speak every month to at least 75 people. I've given speeches in front of 1,500 a handful of times.
I once got up on stage at a giant conference and gave a 20 second testimony in front of 15,000 people. It was pretty cool... I was about 16 when that happened.
About 15, doing a presentation in front of the class in college. Still, it was scary for me.
The most was probably around 2,000. They didn’t do a headcount, so that’s an estimate based on the room capacity. I did the keynote speech at a conference in Geneva. Another time was probably around that number when I spoke at a conference in Vienna. Most of the time I speak it’s to 50-100 people, though.
It depends on what you are going to say and if they want/expect to hear it. You're going to say something that (presumably) honours the person's memory, to a room of people who want to hear his/her memory being honoured, and who are expecting you to do it. If you cry, it just shows how much you care. It's hard to go wrong. The worst thing you could do is say nothing, or say something offensive.
I'm sure I've sung for audiences of more than 150 but tbh a hall full of people is just a hall full of people - the figure stops mattering. I think about it this way: these people are sitting listening to you because they believe you can give them what they've come for. So give it to them.
About 35. It was a technical presentation about using sampling theory with hypergeometric distributions to verify accuracy of enormous amounts of data in a parallel software architecture for a major international banking corporation. Only geeks were in the room. They were a tough crowd but I stayed on top of the material and won their trust.
I gave a speech to maybe fifty people off the top of my head that I can remember back in 2011. I'm so much more comfortable with the microphone than the podium!
Around 300, but it was for work. I don't love speaking in public. The key is to just know what you're going to say. I am sorry for your loss. Speaking st s funeral will be both easy and hard. Easy in 5hat no one will judge you. Hard in that it is so personal. Maybe have a friend or family member help you write what you see going to say. And practice saying it.