He was asked to make a speech at the inauguration of a research institute in north-eastern China.
The audience gave the producer a minute-long standing ovation before allowing him to make a speech, which displayed his distinctive modesty and wit.
Former party leader Lord Ashdown is to make a speech on Saturday, and current leader Nick Clegg will do a question-and-answer session with activists.
The committee is also questioning whether candidates should be allowed to make a speech before MSPs take part in the secret ballot to elect them.
And yet in Ghent he had the brass neck to make a speech all about how good a European Britain had become under New Labour.
Former Senator, current actor, Fred Thompson went to London to make a speech about the trans-Atlantic alliance and to meet with former Tory Prime Minister and conservative icon Margaret Thatcher.
The pop star, whose real name is Park Jae-sang, also joked that he's heard that he is the first person to make a speech at Harvard without a written script.
When she next came to New York to make a speech, the British consulate called me out of the blue, and invited me to meet her at the Plaza for a photograph.
They think it promotes a certain amount of showboating and people taking the stage, essentially, in a virtually empty chamber to make a speech that's intended not for anyone else to hear but just people back in their home district.
Mr Brown may have run the economy and amused himself by dabbling in social policy, but late-night stints in the Treasury are nothing compared with the sight of Greenpeace demonstrators dangling from the rafters while you're trying to make a speech.
"It is completely shambolic for the Lib Dem secretary of state to make a speech advocating one policy one week, then for a Tory briefing to point in a different direction a week later, " said Mr McFadden, who is the shadow business secretary.
But it may also be that he thought it would sound inappropriate to make a campaign speech which would have to have attacked his opponent and sounded at least a little upbeat.
On Thursday, Obama is scheduled to make a major speech in Virginia on the economy and his plan to fix.
One reason I am anxious to make a big speech about men, boys and male identity is to nail the lie that feminism is somehow the cause of the problem.
Mr Obama is expected to make a big speech next month ahead of the troop withdrawals he has promised will begin in July.
Mr Cameron has hinted at a possible referendum after the next election and is due to make a big speech on Europe shortly.
Impeachment prosecutor David Ellis, in his rebuttal, emphasised that Mr Blagojevich had refused to appear under oath to answer questions, opting instead to make a closing speech.
At the end of his first day at training with Arsenal, Bergkamp was asked - as is Gunners custom - to make a short speech to the other players.
Mr Romney is also planning to make a major economic speech on 24 February at Ford Field, home to the Detroit Lions NFL team.
For his part, Mr Arafat's latest trip is to the United States where he will make a speech to the United Nations General Assembly.
The US president has gone to Kansas to make a big economic speech, saying this is a make or break moment for the American middle class and that the ongoing debate about tax is "the defining issue of our time".
Hebrew University released the poll shortly before Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to make what he called a major speech to lay out his plan for the country's peace and security.
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Mr Cameron is to make a long-awaited speech on Europe, with many of his MPs calling on him to pledge a referendum.
Well, listen, I'm not going to give a long speech, because I just want to make sure that I get a chance to shake everybody's hands.
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Other than a few sentences at the last earnings call, he has yet to make a public statement or speech about Google or his planned strategy.
The New York State senator chose to make her speech inside a 19th-Century Roman-inspired building, which once housed the Pension Bureau and now provides a grandiose space for political and social gatherings.
Mr Cameron is due to make a long-awaited speech on the UK's future role in the EU later this month, with some Conservative MPs calling for a referendum on whether to stay in or leave.
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