When its your turn to plan the corporate dinner, the choice of entertainment will decide how your evening ends.  You want to create lasting memories of fun, but how can you keep everyone engaged and appeal to the hard to please?

These
corporate after dinner entertainment ideas
can give you a great start to creating an event no one will forget.

When most people think about after dinner entertainment, they picture an after dinner program.  You can set the entire mood early by thinking outside of the box.  Caricature artists, instrumentalists, roving magicians, balloon artists, jugglers, aerialists and celebrity impersonators can mingle amongst guests during the cocktail hour.  From background music to atmosphere, their performances add excitement to the evening’s activities.

Hire some “wacky waiters” to mingle with the staff as dinner is being served.  They start as regular wait staff, but as the evening goes on their service becomes an error of comedies.  You’ll enjoy watching guests at first try to suppress their amusement as they wonder if the antics are intentional.  When the “gag” is finally revealed, the laughter flows.  You will find your audience is in a great mood and more than ready for the after dinner activities to begin.

For corporate after dinner entertainment, you need to be extremely aware of your group and their preferences.  Musical tastes vary widely.  Depending on the age range of your audience, music can either get people dancing, or leaving.  Hypnotists can provide plenty of laughs, but some guests may be afraid of embarrassment.  If guests aren’t willing, they can’t be hypnotized.  A hypnotist who can’t hypnotize anyone becomes a very poor choice for entertainment.

Jugglers and magicians are popular forms of corporate entertainment.  Chances are, you’ve seen them at events before.  If you want something different, you may want to head in an entirely different direction.

Luckily, everyone likes to laugh.  A good corporate comedian will personalize their program to your company, event and people so the material is not only clean but appropriate.  There are different styles of comedians.  One of the hottest forms of comedy right now is the ventriloquist.  A ventriloquist ranks in Forbes magazine as the highest grossing touring comedian.  Another won a major television contest and headlines sold out shows in Las Vegas.  There are few professional ventriloquists suitable for the corporate market, which makes this type of entertainment unique.

If you are in charge of the corporate dinner entertainment, contact our office to discuss ideas for your event.  Tom has worked with some of the top corporate acts and event planners in the country.  If his program isn’t a good fit for your needs, he is happy to connect you with people that can make your vision come to life!