Speakers know that there is power in laughter. 

If we hear our audience  laughing (with us) then it will provide us with a sense of confidence.  Everyone likes to hear it when an audience starts to laugh after you  have gotten done delivering the punchline of your joke. This is exactly  what it takes to provide you with a shot of energy and it can launch you  into the main point of your speech. However, the challenge that many of  us have is using the importance of public speaking to  get our audience to laugh when we want them to. 

What we need are strategies that we can use to get our audience to laugh.