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I write the speech you are dreading. Best man speech, wedding toast, maid of honor, eulogy, birthday or retirement roast. Free first step: send me their name and one true thing about them. I send back the opening beat and the line the room will repeat. Yours either way, no charge. Then the whole thing, 25 dollars: one draft in 3 days, one round of changes, marked where to breathe and where to look up. My rule: the funniest line is also the true one. The joke carries the feeling instead of dodging it. If I cannot find a joke that lands without lying about the person, you get your money back.