Poking Fun at PP

All you have do do is type "bad powerpoints" into youtube.com's search bar and you get a slew of related videos: powerpoints on how to make powerpoints, failed powerpoints, and gag powerpoints galor.


How many of us had seen these sort of presenters. Just to awkward to bare- you're embarressed for them. Unprepared and utterly uncomfortable presenting. A skit, true, but it typifies many powerpoint fails.

How many errors can you find?
My favorite, by far, are the comedic remarks on the subject. Just like the page 426: Highlighting How Not To Use Powerpoint, this stand-up routine series points out many of the quirky contridictions of PP use:

And this one is sadly, a real powerpoint so bad it is nearly a mockery of itself:

Perhaps the speaker had a very detailed and interesting speech to fill in the...erm...gaps in understanding within these slides. Or maybe a screenshot of an English weather-cast can really convey more information than what I seem to be getting. An example of graphics left to speak on their own...and largely remain silent.

Bad powerpoints are embarressing, perhaps because the mistakes are so easy to avoid than once you know and recognize them, they become blaringly obvious in other presentations. Or maybe I'm just bias against the Unite Kingdom (England).*


*false, the UK is more than just England, but also Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Maybe fact check the first slide of your presentation. Just sayin'.