Toastmasters and competitions are interesting. “And the toastmaster is good, and the competitions are interesting” - where did this meme come from? The toastmaster is good and the competitions are interesting

Cool and interesting competitions will help your holiday guests have a good time. Original pranks and tasks with surprises will set a positive dynamic for the evening and cheer up the company. Interesting quizzes They will diversify the feast and will not let everyone present at the gala event get bored.

Game "Plaid"

Prank game. Of all the guests of the holiday, the 1st one is chosen brave man. It's better if it's a man. He sits in a circle on the floor (on which you first need to lay some kind of rug) and covers his head with an ordinary blanket.

The host says that his task is to guess the wardrobe item (the name of the item he is wearing) that all the guests have guessed. After the word “made a wish” is heard, the participant begins to name things one by one (for example, a shirt). If he guessed wrong, he must take off this element of his wardrobe.

The essence of the game is that the blanket itself is initially made into a mystery. But while the participant guesses, he remains sitting under this blanket completely naked.

Everyone can participate in the competition. They are divided equally into 2 groups. Players from both teams stand next to each other and receive pens and sheets of paper. The presenter approaches last participants and shows them simple drawings(each team has its own picture).

The task of the player who saw the picture is to draw it by placing a sheet of paper on the back of the competitor standing in front. The participant who felt certain movements of the pen on his back draws on his sheet of paper what he thought the previous teammate had drawn. So all the players draw until the first team member creates his own picture.

At the end of the competition, the presenter looks at the result of the work done by each group of competitors and shows the original version of the picture. The team whose drawing is most similar to the original wins.

Everyone can participate in the competition. To carry it out, you need to prepare cards with different numbers(from 1 to 31). There should be at least 3 times more of them than participants. The competition is held at the table.

Each player takes turns drawing a card. For example, a participant comes across the number 17. He must remember any holiday, noisy feast, just interesting or funny story, which occurred on the 17th. You are given 1 minute to remember. If the player was unable to recall anything in his memory, he is eliminated.

The winner is the participant who manages to remember as much as possible more stories associated with the number he got.

Game "Neighbor's Laughter"

All guests of the holiday play. One volunteer becomes the presenter. This is where the game begins. The main task of each participant is to make his neighbor laugh. This can be done using strange and incomprehensible actions. For example, the presenter pulls his neighbor’s nose. That one - his neighbor and so on, until the last player. The participant who laughs while pulling his nose is eliminated. After the first round, the second stage of the game begins. On it, the leader can easily and painlessly bite his neighbor’s ear.

The game is played until only one, the most serious participant remains.

Game "Sharpness of Idea"

Creative game. 5 people are participating. Each player receives a simple pencil, a regular sheet of paper and a card with a task.

The participants' task is to draw what is written on the card in 5 minutes. After time, all the “artists” present their masterpieces to the public, without naming their main idea. Viewers must guess what is drawn. The winner is the player whose drawing the guests “decipher” faster than others.

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More and more often you can hear the following phrase from newlyweds: “no competitions at the wedding.” One gets the feeling that the couple is either being modest or imagining “vulgar” competitions in their heads with dressing up and counting money. This is where the questions arise: is it worth categorically refusing to hold competitions at your wedding, and if not, then how to make the wedding dynamic, interesting and modern? Popular presenters have long found the answer, and it sounds like this: “ interactive program».

Interactive, competitions, “movement” - you can call it whatever you like. The main thing is that inside there is everything that is aimed at revealing the intellectual, artistic, creative, choreographic, acting, vocal and any other abilities of our dear guests. In addition to the fact that interactive activities should bring joy and pleasure to all those present, the presenter is also faced with the task of introducing, uniting, uniting people who are unfamiliar or barely familiar until now, creating a so-called “comfort zone” for them. Today we decided to introduce our readers to those who have long ago successfully replaced the “pencil in a bottle” with new experiences.

Roman Klyachkin

Man-orchestra

Roman Klyachkin is a positive and energetic presenter, decorating every event with dynamics and lightning-fast reactions. An actor, comedian and presenter, Roman is widely known to the public as a participant in comedy projects on the TNT channel. “Duet Beautiful” together with Ilya Sobolev - winner of the show “Laughter without Rules” on TNT, participants in the projects “Slaughter League”, “ Comedy Club"and many others.

Today Roman is one of the most famous and expensive showmen in Moscow. He has a wonderful sense of humor and is able to give good mood to everyone present.

To charm, intrigue, evoke enthusiastic emotions, make everyone have fun to the fullest, “charge” the newlyweds with the energy of happiness and positivity. These are the goals the leader sets for himself. In Roman's arsenal a large number of interesting, exclusive, creative interactions and developments. Klyachkin’s program is a bet on humor and improvisation: to amuse, surprise, organize interactive events and practical jokes - this is his job.

Roman has gone through a serious school of stand-up performances, so it is almost impossible to take him by surprise, confuse him or confuse him. He always has something to say. And most often what he says will be met with smiles and laughter. The novel is ideal where freshness, energy and creativity are required from the presenter.

Modern weddings require greater involvement of the host in the preparation process, especially when discussing the program. The most common mistake- this is the application of the same interactive to different audiences. Interactivity is when the presenter and the couple prepare for it in advance. He should be with the guys or their guests. The competition usually has nothing to do with the couple, and is held solely for the sake of “playing for time.”

Interactive and competition are, in fact, synonymous concepts. Much like the presenter and toastmaster. The main difference is in the associations that people have. When the start of the competition is announced, balls, carrots, graters, ladles, pencils, bottles and sack races immediately pop up in your mind. Interactive is a modern word and implies activity that has nothing to do with Soviet Union. Presenter Yuri Mikhlin fights for this modernity, as well as high-quality humor and a general positive mood in his work.

Yuri came to the presenter from KVN, was a participant in the Comedy Battle project and a screenwriter for the show Ural dumplings" It is the author’s rich experience that helps Mikhlin come up with new funny interactives using modern gadgets.

“The ideal interactive program at a wedding is a program designed for people of all generations, where it is equally advantageous to be both a participant in the interactive and to remain in the role of a spectator. The host can communicate unobtrusively with the guests, and if the guest answers him, and when the host asks to raise his hand, he raises it, then, in general, he is already in the game,” says Yuri.

The most common mistake that presenters make when putting together a program is “not to worry.” For them, the wedding takes place in two stages: the first is to meet the newlyweds and charm, the second is to show up on time for the celebration. For Yuri the most important stage is preparation for the wedding - advance joint painstaking work with the newlyweds and attention to detail. This is elementary: the host should know the newlyweds no worse than the guests - their acquaintance history, key points the development of their relationship, when and how the proposal was made. This will allow you to joke appropriately and maintain dialogue.

An interactive wedding program could consist only of original ideas, but still Mikhlin, although ambitious and experienced, believes that one head, as they say, is good, but two... For a change, Yuri often meets and communicates with colleagues similar in style and in spirit. Often, valuable ideas are borrowed from television programs and upgraded into wedding games, especially since it is interesting for guests to find themselves in the role of participants in shows that are close to them, like “Moscow Evenings” on First and “Improvisation” on TNT.

Another trump card in the program is mini-games. They are simple and quick, they close the pause where necessary, they are played to the point of laughter, not to the winner, and are sometimes invented by the presenter on the fly. It's not easy and that's why it's interesting. Any unforeseen situation is a challenge, it is an opportunity to show your professionalism, turning a minus into a plus.

In addition to interactive events, there is another important part of the wedding - these are traditional moments. And they simply need to be changed in order to keep up with the times, Yuri believes. Here are a couple of secrets for beginners: iPhones help to vote for a boy and a girl, thanks to VR glasses worn by the groom, the theft of the bride takes place before everyone’s eyes, and this season it was fashionable to catch a bouquet in the mannequin challenge style.

“Competition” for me is a concept that is strongly associated with the word “toastmaster”. We don't have that anymore. And interactivity is more like brainstorming or bringing together guests, much more intellectual by definition. It is designed directly under this group people whose event we are doing.

“My task as a host is not just to make a holiday, but to create a world in which there will be a good mood, humor, laughter, as well as memories, a sincere atmosphere and truly touching moments,” Vasily Sorokin writes about himself. And it seems that he is confident in what he says, because this impressive blond has held more than 2,000 events of various sizes.

Vasily tries to keep abreast of modern technologies. On this moment The market for entertainment applications is limitless, and even with the help of a smartphone you can make pleasant surprises for an event: from editing SDE video to creating 3D models of guests. The presenter is sure that ideal program- this is the case when not a single guest was left unattended and was able to find himself in the program.

But Sorokin tries not to use the word “competitions” in his work. “It’s simple: in a competition there is a winner and, roughly speaking, a loser, but in an interactive actual topic, which does not require competition,” says the presenter.

To understand what the couple and guests want, it is best to analyze their hobbies, interests and interests. Sometimes the answer to this question lies in the joint creativity of the presenter and the client. Vasily is sure that any well-spoken phrase, spontaneous initiative of the guest will inevitably become a highlight of the wedding day. Therefore, rely on technology, and don’t make a mistake yourself. The prefix “digital” is one of the trump cards in the hands of the presenter, but not the basis of his program. Technologies are not always appropriate: content is more important than external bonuses. And don’t forget that there shouldn’t be a lot of interactions. The golden mean is from three to five.

, head of a wedding agency. The number of interactive events at a wedding depends on the concept of the event. There are celebrations where we don’t use them at all: there is a dance block going on, or guests are just chatting. It all depends on the concept. If the concept is suitable, then optimal quantity- 3-4 interactive.

The nature of interactions is simple and has long been known to all presenters. But the secret ingredient that makes a wedding truly special is personalized content. It is this that the presenter Denis Drozdov thinks through and creates together with the guests of the holiday and the future newlyweds.

“The ideal interactive program is when it is interesting for all the guests and the presenter. When you yourself get high and do it as sincerely and involved as possible,” Denis is sure.

There are two main models from which all interactions are created: quiz and action. In the first case, you need to guess something, in the second, you need to complete a certain task. It is very important not just to use these designs, but to come up with an idea and personalization that will make the wedding special and will be as close and understandable as possible to everyone present. An interactive idea, like a wedding concept, can come from one word. A child’s passion or hobby, a favorite song, or maybe even the work of future newlyweds. Moreover, the idea itself can be repeated, this is normal, but the content - never!

Each wedding is unique in that it brings together for the first time different people In one place. The presenter’s task is to find something that will unite them and captivate them for the whole evening. Let's take movies and music, for example. The topic itself is essentially not new. What to attract? Filling. Films that are symbolic for the couple and most interesting for a particular occasion. Unite the older and younger generations? We make a mix of Hollywood and Soviet cinema. In some cases, you can use the “reverse” move. Young people guess songs or films known to their elders, and vice versa.

The more guests, the more likely it is that some of them will be left unattended. But not with a competent presenter. For weddings with more than 50 guests, Denis uses formats that involve and unite maximum amount of people. For example, a quiz.

Quiz (from the English quiz) is a competition during which teams of participants answer several rounds of questions. How to create teams? Easily. They will be guests who sit at the same table. On each table there is a card on which guests write down answers to questions. Time is limited, which adds excitement and unity at the table. After the end of the mini-game, the cards are collected by the presenter or assistant, and you can calmly take a break, after which the results will be announced and the most erudite table will be awarded. It turns out stylish, atmospheric and personal.

In Denis’s portfolio for 2017 you will find a bold and successful experiment - a wedding in the “quiz” style. A game of 5 rounds, compiled together with the newlyweds, who received the role of the main judges of the evening. Questions about the couple, unique wedding traditions world, travel, cinema and music, arranged in a personal presentation. In the intervals between rounds there will be dancing, hookahs, a drawing of a bouquet, a men's battle, a cake, and “wedding fortune” for the guests. The evening was easy, exciting and fun, introducing and uniting all the guests to each other. And an idea that accidentally appeared during a discussion at the first meeting could well become a good tradition in this family. This, according to Denis, is a good interactive component.

Olga Kramar, head of the agency. It is also very important to discuss everything with the organizer and the couple. At four different opinions the truth is born much faster. When drawing up a program, you need to take into account the number of guests, artists and general style Events. Optimally from 1 to 4. Sometimes we don’t conduct even one. The most popular this season were video gadgets. Guests are filmed, guests are filmed, in advance, during the event - it doesn’t matter. People like to see themselves on screen.

Leonid Margolin

Presenter of the 21st century

Leonid believes: an ideal interactive program happens when the audience is ready to participate and communicate, and the host is ready to improvise at every stage of the holiday. Important point for good interactivity - sound: with bad sound it is almost impossible to work interactively.

Now interactive and competition are different as concepts, but by their nature they are absolutely the same tools for the presenter. The interactive has more room for action by the guest participant and a much broader interpretation of the rules from the presenter. The competition is stricter and less free to improvise. Interactive has conditional rules- the points around which everything is built on the improvisation of the leader.

Most often, during a wedding, Leonid uses only phones: other gadgets are too difficult to use in the program. Nevertheless, modern technologies have already changed the world of the event: tracks are downloaded during the holiday, and many interactions require a screen. The program includes individual developments and a lot of successfully twisted borrowings. Interactions on the go also happen frequently. Leonid says: “For example, recently the winners of one competition, who won cars and apartments, showed right during the gala dinner how they would drive them and how they would live in them. This was done absolutely straight away, despite such expensive prizes.”

It doesn’t matter how many interactive events or competitions there will be at the wedding: one or two, five or more, or none at all. The main thing is what kind of atmosphere the presenter creates. An audience that does not want banal competitions can be asked to reconsider their attitude towards competitions in general. Leonid says: “It’s not about the competition, it’s about me. It's like a Caesar salad: it has the same ingredients all over the world: lettuce, tomatoes, and so on. But in some places he is to die for, and in others he is just normal. It's all about the cook. The same goes for competitions and interactive activities.”

, head of a wedding agency. At our weddings, we carefully consider the guests and their interests, but sometimes the clients themselves give the wrong information: for example, they say that people don’t want dancing or interactive activities, when people, on the contrary, want to dance. The advantage of a good presenter is that he can quickly get his bearings and correctly present the required interaction.

At the party in honor of Freshman's Day on September 22 at the Baikonur concert and dance hall in Tyumen, young people and girls took part in competitions that were quite risky from a moral point of view. They stripped almost naked, and the girls publicly imitated oral-genital contact.

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The prize itself best participant there was a certificate for a thousand rubles to a tattoo parlor. On social networks, however, they claim that a military ID was attached to it. Someone present at the show filmed what was happening and posted it publicly. Of course, a scandal broke out.

Representatives of Tyumen State University hastened to distance themselves from the dubious event. University employee Elena Druzhinina said that the official initiation into students took place at the university on September 14. She emphasized that the university does not intend to expel or punish students. The academic ethics commission will decide their fate, but the university is preparing an appeal to law enforcement agencies.

“It is important, since our university is mentioned, to find out who conducted it, who gave permission and was the instigator in such competitions. The situation is unique to each student and will be decided by the ethics committee. We don’t plan to make hasty decisions here,” said Elena Druzhinina.

The university press service confirmed that draconian measures should not be expected. Moreover, the party was organized for students of all Tyumen universities, and not just Tyumen State University.

“We have looked at the video, but it’s not very good quality, it is difficult to identify the identities of our students on it. If we find out who it is, we will hold professional measures. We will not expel anyone,” the university press service said.

According to the head of the Baikonur KTZ Vadim Shvets, on September 22 the hall was rented by the “School of Organizers of Ruslan Krasilnikov.” Now he's on phone calls doesn't answer. However, it became known that an exclusive all-inclusive club party in Baikonur costs about 120 thousand rubles.

The organizer of the party, according to rumors, was the well-known showman in Tyumen, Nikita Snyusevsky. However, he resolutely disowned this dubious honor.

“I have no involvement in organizing the event. Especially for the competition. I advertised the project because I am a public figure among my peers in Tyumen,” he said.

Party participants say that people were present of different ages, not just freshmen. There were older and younger, minors. But after 22:00 they were taken out of the club by security. What time the odious competition began, however, is not known.

Those present claim that the organizers of the competition themselves did not expect that things would go so far. The maximum they expected was that the participants would remain in their underwear.

The video and publications of Russian media, distributed throughout the RuNet, made scandalous party publicly available.
On social networks, Tyumen residents complain that they did not want such fame for their city. They are ashamed that now Russians will associate Tyumen State University with wild customs, alcohol parties and stripping contests.

City youth said that such spectacles are typical for all clubs in Russia. It’s just that not everywhere there is an alternatively gifted viewer who will film them and put them in the public domain. They write that they are offended that students can be expelled because of such nonsense. By the way, the video was posted on Instagram by a user under the nickname sanyara_boy17. Now he has closed his profile.

Naturally, those who wanted to “shoot” young people who had committed a fine spoke out in the chats, but in general the discussion came down to the problem of fathers and children with the participation of people different generations. Some reproached modern youth for total depravity, others reasonably noted that someone raised them. Is it not you, dear moralfags?

“For adult participants, such competitions are the norm, or rather, not quite, but no one forcibly undressed the girls, they wanted it themselves and did it themselves. The girls were ready to do this for prizes,” said one of the organizers of the city party, Mark Sushkov.

Apparently, at the Ministry of Internal Affairs Tyumen region his opinion is not shared, since the police have already begun an investigation. They will find out whether minors were present at the party, and will also find its organizers.

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Memes appear on the Internet quite spontaneously. As soon as one user posts a funny picture, someone immediately adds a witty comment to it. A successful meme spreads across the World Wide Web within a few hours.

Internet meme

Few people are not familiar with the thousands of memes on the World Wide Web. For those who are in the tank, this term denotes a phrase, picture, activity that was formed spontaneously and quickly gained popularity. Among the most popular and well-known are “the little hand”, “the stubborn fox”, “the suspicious dog”, “the disaster girl”, “and the toastmaster is good, and the competitions are interesting.”

Where did the concept of “meme” even come from? Many consider it a neologism recent years, formed on the Internet. However, such an assumption is fundamentally incorrect.

This term is quite old and was first used in 1976 by Professor Richard Dawkins in his work “The Selfish Gene”:

A meme is a unit of cultural information that can spread at lightning speed.

The term is not included in the active lexicon, but resurfaced in 1994 when it was used by Douglas Rothschild as a definition special type media virus.

The toastmaster is good and the competitions are interesting

Where did this expression come from? Who was the first to use it and when?

Three years ago, in 2015, in the public page “The Suffering Middle Ages,” created by history students, a meme “and the toastmaster is good and the competitions are interesting” appeared, from where it quickly moved to the Pikabu portal, and there it quickly gained popularity.

Initially it appeared with this picture:

A priest reading a prayer and a round dance of naked people around.

An inexhaustible source of irony

In just a few months, the phrase was replicated in hundreds various pictures and video.

It is not surprising that a traditional Russian wedding with a toastmaster has come under the radar of sharp-tongued Internet jokers. The reality is that even in the 21st century, most wedding hosts have still not moved away from Soviet traditions and style.

Typical wedding competitions, designed for a well-tipsy audience, are usually vulgar and primitive. It's interesting that the vast majority of pictures with this meme are real. wedding photos.

This meme is not a copy of any foreign joke and has spread exclusively on the RuNet. Perhaps because of its specificity and understandability only by the Russian-speaking part of the population.