> I agree strongly with the bit about not including memes and jokes I certainly think there is a balance. If you're not confident about your talk or your abil

> I agree strongly with the bit about not including memes and jokes I certainly think there is a balance. If you're not confident about your talk or your ability to present it, folks should be disabused of the idea that adding some gifs or a "One does not simply" meme will fix that. That said, I think of my talks as sharing interesting stories. When I tell stories, I often crack a few jokes along the way, and my presentations are no different. I feel like adding humour is often a way of giving people insight into your thought process. Of course, everyone is different, and perhaps you are dead serious about your way of thinking about compilers or neural networks or whatever your work on. The author does an excellent job, however, of underscoring the fact that jokes can rely on an in-crowd or shared experience that some in the audience don't share. It's important in all aspects of your talk to keep that sort of thing in mind, and make sure your humour isn't just some twitter in-joke.