Phyllis Diller, and your clients

You have to love the “hour.” The comic Phyllis Diller died this week. In her retirement she told an interviewer what she missed about the stage:

“I don’t miss the travel. I miss the laughter. I do miss the actual hour. I don’t want to sound like I’m on dope, but that hour is a high. It’s as good as you can feel. A wonderful, wonderful happiness, and great power.”

Speechwriters, seek speakers who feel that way about being on the stage.