Noun
after-dinner speech (plural after-dinner speeches)
A public address event that is traditionally spoken after a dinner, and meant to take an important topic and make greater sense of it through the use of humor that is relevant to the idea presented.
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. Evelyn Waugh
No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after-dinner speech will counteract it. Kin Hubbard