Unless you have a great line in gags or repartee don't waffle on aimlessly to your audience, or make in-jokes among yourselves, the band or the compere/DJ.

In short, the inhabitants of Italy first subdued mankind by open force; and secondly, by imposition and pawkry.

The attention-grabbing headline sent the crowd into a frenzy.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Platt.