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Durwood Fincher

TOPICS:
Comedian
Humor
Entertainment


FEE CATEGORY:*
10.0k to 15.0k

TRAVELS FROM:
Georgia

    Durwood Fincher: Profile


    Durwood Fincher provides an unexpected, hilarious experience for your audience. Introduced as Dr. Robert Payne, a bumbling, bureaucratic Washington D.C. stereotype, "Dr. Payne's" presentation-customized to your industry or organization-is filled with enough bureaucratic rhetoric, jargon, buzzwords and hollow platitudes to spin heads. As the audience listens they slowly begin to realize that he is saying nothing at all and that, in all respects, something funny is going on. Laughter erupts and the fun really begins when they catch on that they're being put-on and he shifts into a spirited, uplifting presentation stressing the importance of humor and clear communication in the workplace.

    Before the event, Durwood poses as a roving reporter and conducts video interviews of attendees at your event. They are told that they will be participating in an "Industry Survey". But . . . of course . . . his questions make no sense . . . yet it is truly amazing how many people answer rather than admit they haven't a clue as to what he's talking about. He then delivers a hilarious speech that incorporates those video interviews.

    About Durwood Fincher
    The greatest imposter of our time, Durwood Fincher busts open the collective mind of the audience and offers them a wild dose of humor and surprising insights. Introduced as “Dr. Robert Payne,” a highly-touted government “expert” straight from Washington, D.C., Fincher presents an audience-tailored program filled with enough bureaucratic rhetoric to spin heads. Slowly it becomes clear that “Dr. Payne” is saying nothing at all. That’s when the laughter erupts and the fun begins. “Dr. Payne” makes way for the real Durwood Fincher who delivers his own uplifting and equally funny presentation that says a great deal indeed – about the stress-releasing beauty of laughter. Fincher’s outrageous presentations enlighten and inspire as much as they entertain. A Popular Program Option: Prior to his talk, Fincher will pose as a roving reporter and videotape interviews with event attendees. Asking meaningless questions but soliciting thoughtful answers, he later delivers a hilarious presentation incorporating all the ill-gotten clips.

    Durwood Fincher, a.k.a. Dr. Robert Payne, is an entertainer, a linguist and an insightful comedian, whose specialty is corporate communications.

    Fincher has been the secret ingredient at hundreds of successful corporate functions, making certified heroes out of meeting planners since 1981. He is on the road an average of 200 days a year. Mr. Fincher has made numerous appearances on Live with Regis. He also has appeared on The Rosie O'Donnell Show, and Dick Clark's America's Funniest Bloopers Show on ABC.

    Durwood Fincher provides an unexpected, refreshing experience for the corporate audience, a hilarious way for them to examine, reexamine and improve communications skills for themselves and others.

    As Dr. Robert Payne, he portrays the bad example, the worst-case scenario of contemporary business-speak, using language to mislead. This bumbling, bureaucratic stereotype (familiar to attendees of conferences worldwide) uses mind-numbing language, designed to distort reality, make the bad seem good and the intolerable seem tolerable.

    Introduced as Dr. Payne, head of a government agency which is pertinent to your industry, his presentation is salted through and through with your own company's buzzwords, jargon and other familiar references, to further the confusion. This curious-looking executive is passed off as an inside-the-beltway dork.

    The audience will first have mixed reactions: settling down for a tedious half hour or so; getting ready to take copious notes; wishing they were somewhere else - anywhere else. But within minutes, Fincher will be having his way with their funny bones.

    Following his bogus introduction by your host, 'Dr. Payne' begins his bogus presentation which sounds like he is making sense. But if you listen carefully, it becomes obvious that what he is saying makes no sense whatsoever. Slowly the crowd begins to catch on.

    First there is a titter. Then a few laughs. Then lots of laughs.

    After the charade of Dr. Payne is exposed, Fincher swings into a fast-paced laugh filled sketch of real-life anecdotes about the funny foibles of people attempting to communicate with one another, against all odds. The audience, always forgiving, can't get enough.

    With Durwood Fincher on the program, the people in the audience enjoy themselves and come away refreshed, having learned the message that we all must strive to communicate more concisely and clearly. Your meeting glides on effortlessly, successfully, in an atmosphere cleansed by laughter.

    In the comic tradition of Candid Camera and America's Funniest Home Videos, Mr. Fincher offers the perfect complement to his speech: videotaped interviews of your attendees.


    What Meeting Planners Are Saying About Durwood Fincher / Mr. Doubletalk:

    "Your presentation was the highlight of the meeting and certainly set the tone we wished to convey."
    -- D.R.D., Carey International, Inc.

    "Words can not describe the impact your performance had on the group... You set a level of expectation that prevailed for the following three days."

    -- R.J.K. & D.K.S., Conference Co-Chairman, Kimberly-Clark

    "You stole the show!!! Thanks, Durwood, for giving our 84th Annual Meeting such an uplifting, positive and hilarious finale!"

    -- A.L., Meeting Planner and B.D., President, Life Insurers Conference


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