How to use skits to keep interest

Skits can be an effective means of keeping interest. The best skits are the short ones only a minute or two in length. Through the use of skits some valuable lessons can be put across in a way that will be remembered. Here are some skits that have been successfully put on at various meetings. They are effective because they are brief, lively and easily staged. Each of these should spark several ideas for skits of your own.

Six skits you can use

1.* At a prearranged time a salesman in the audience starts moaning loud as if suddenly stricken quite ill. Two other sales men rush him to the front of the room and supposedly inject five hundred thousand units of “spizzerinktum” from a five gallon water bottle. Promptly revived, the salesman starts showing enthusiasm. He grabs an order book and rushes out of the room as if to call on prospective customers, following which someone gives a few words on the need for enthusiasm.
2.* Any salesman is called to the front and asked to hold his breath as long as he can. The emcee acts as timekeeper. After the time has been announced (usually 20 or 25 seconds), the emcee gives the salesman a goal at which to shoot, adding ten or fifteen seconds to the time of the initial try. The same fellow holds his breath again. Invariably, he will hold it long enough to attain the goal set for him. The moral should then be explained: one always
does better when he has a goal.
3.* Two members of the audience start arguing in a very realistic manner. They get louder, so the emcee asks them to be quiet. They continue arguing until the emcee asks them to come to the front and explain the disagreement. One gives the opinion that servicing a customer is more important than obtaining the account in the first place. But the other argues that service is of little importance. A show of hands by the audience decides the issue. The point is then further clinched by the emcee’s remarks.
4.* Someone posing as a newsboy interrupts at an appropriate time, yelling “Extra, extra! Salesman shot for asking for the order!” The emcee then explains that no such headline has ever been printed, that no such paper will ever be sold. No salesman has ever been shot because he asked for the order. “You won’t get hurt because of it, and you might make more sales. So always ask for the order!”
5.* Three people are called to the front and given balloons to blow up. The emcee explains that each balloon represents the individual’s opportunity with the company. All blow together to see who can make the most of his opportunity. By prearrangement, one person tries in vain to inflate his balloon. The next inflates his but lets it go. The third inflates his balloon until it bursts. The emcee then points out that the first person didn’t make anything of his opportunity, and that the second person let the opportunity get away from him. “But the third person burst the opportunity wide open. And that’s what we want to do-burst this opportunity wide open!”
6.* At a suitable time in the program a salesman in the audience hollers-”I want to become a top producer. How can I do it?” The emcee has the man come to the front and stick his head in a bucket of water. The salesman soon needs to breathe and struggles to get his head out. But the emcee holds his head down a few seconds longer to create a real struggle. After the salesman gets his head out, the emcee says, “When you want to be a top producer as badly as you wanted to get your head out of that water, then you’ll be a top producer that’s how to do it!”

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