You made a good fist of it. Carefully crafted words conveying what you had to convey.

Are you a believer? The idea makes one guffaw. No not guffaw for that would be impolite and rudeness in such settings is not the done thing.

The audience clapped as one has to do.

You left a job well done. One does what one has to do and should never shoot the messenger. Does the messenger have an opinion? His but to convey. But, unlike the carrier of messages you spun us a tale – err you said it as it is.

Someone once remarked that reading between the lines of newspapers with diametrically opposing views will reveal the approximate truth.

You did what you had to do, but I am glad it was you, not I who did it.