I don’t speak in public much - but I think I have it nailed: if you want to make a good speech, tell the truth as you see it, as simply as you know how. Even if you that means you’re just saying one sentence statements, one after the other. 

Because if you don’t, then you can get lost in Trying To Make A Good Speech. And that mostly sucks for everyone.

But if you do, then you will at least tick the basic box: Get to the point. 

And if you’re on your game you’ll find that - by simple virtue of the fact that you’re telling the truth and that’s easy - you can find some space between the sentences to add the odd grace note or wry aside. Pchew! You’ll look like a pro.

And, if God smiles on you, you’ll do something like the video above where, it seems to me, around about the 4m30 mark, Louis CK surprises himself at the depth of his feeling and the profoundness of the truth he was speaking.