If you ever feel like you just aren't particularly amusing, what you need to do is find a pack of 1 year old quadruplets. Those
kids will laugh at
anything.
posted by jonson
on Feb 19, 2006 -
110 comments
"I am standing at the traffic lights when the woman next to me, lost in her thoughts, suddenly bursts out laughing. Then she immediately covers her mouth with her hand and glances around, embarrassed. This gives me an idea. I phone the photographer Stephen Gill. 'Let's walk around looking for people who are laughing to themselves because of something they've just thought of,' I say. 'When we find them, you take their photograph and I'll ask them what they were thinking about that was so funny.'"
Jon Ronson sets out to discover the secret source of joy.
posted by Blue Stone
on Dec 10, 2005 -
31 comments
Laughter may or may not be the best medicine, but researchers have discovered it's a good drug, at least.
posted by Spezzatura
on Dec 8, 2003 -
9 comments
Laughter capital of the world? "Declining audiences, dull material, complacent comics: a crisis is looming ....London suddenly appears to be in the grip of a recession for the first time since the alternative comedy boom took off at the beginning of the 1980s." From a nation exporting
Bill Bailey(live in NYC this week) ,
Eddie Izzard,
Ali G, can this really be happening? (BTW I always thought
Canada tried to lay a claim to this crown?)
posted by Voyageman
on Dec 16, 2002 -
15 comments
On average people laugh 18 times a day "
It makes us less stressed, lowers our blood pressure and reduces anxiety. It's more common than sex, eating or singing." Still 18 times a day doesn't sound like its enough. Simple solution. "
Tickle, the most ancient and reliable stimulus of laughter, is undervalued..."
posted by Voyageman
on Apr 3, 2002 -
17 comments
