Ignore an executive coach who doesn’t know the difference between a joke and a study

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is an article by Mike Hawkins in the December 2025 issue of Talent Development (TD) on pages 62 to 64 titled Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking. In the second paragraph he claims that:

 

“Studies on glossophobia have found that some people would rather be in the casket than give the eulogy at a funeral.”

 

But, of course, that was not a study but rather a very well-known joke from comedian Jerry Seinfeld, told on his TV show for May 20, 1993. I blogged about it in a post on April 8, 2018 titled Misquoting Jerry Seinfeld and inflating fear five times. We should ignore Mike.

 

An image of Jerry came from Wikimedia Commons.