Comic Relief: Humor as a Coping Mechanism

May 17, 2021

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Smilow Wellness Workshop | May 15, 2021

Brian Seaward, PhD, renowned nationally and internationally as an expert in the field of stress management, mind-body-spirit healing and corporate health promotion.

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00:00Good afternoon and welcome.
00:02My name is Denise Romano.
00:04We're very happy to join us for
00:07this informative presentation on
00:09humor as an essential coping skill
00:11with Brian Luke Seaward, PhD,
00:13on behalf of the Smiler Wellness
00:15Workshop Committee and Doctor Seaward.
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01:44Seaward goes through his presentation,
01:47use the chat or Q&A to ask your questions.
01:52So I'd like to introduce Brian Luke Seaward,
01:55PhD.
01:56He's regarded as one of the foremost
01:59experts in the field of stress management
02:02and a pioneer in the fields of mind,
02:05body, spirit,
02:06healing,
02:07and corporate health promotion.
02:08He's authored more than 20 books,
02:11including the classic bestsellers
02:13Stand like Mountain Flow like Water,
02:15The Art of Calm and stressed is desserts
02:19spelled backwards and the leading
02:21college textbook managing stress.
02:23Which is in its 10th edition.
02:26Doctor Seawards Mission as expressed
02:28to his legacy of acclaimed books,
02:30documentary films,
02:31photography and public appearances is to
02:34make this a better world in which to live.
02:37By having each of us reach
02:40our highest potential.
02:41A native of Glastonbury,
02:43CT,
02:43doctor Seward has served on the
02:46faculty of the American University
02:48as well as the University of Colorado
02:51Consortium for Public Health and
02:53currently he is a guest faculty member
02:56of the Graduate Institute in Bethany,
02:58Connecticut.
02:59His classes and retreats are endorsed
03:01by the American Holistic Nurses
03:04Association and he offers certification
03:06as holistic stress management instructor.
03:09Doctor Seward is the executive
03:11director of the Paramount Wellness
03:13Institute in Boulder,
03:15Co.
03:15He can beat the reached via his
03:19website www.brianlukeseaward.net
03:20and if you get a chance to go on
03:23the site you will see spectacular
03:26photography that he has there.
03:28So now here to remind us to remember to
03:32be playful and to laugh is Doctor Seward.
03:37Great thanks Denise and thanks
03:39Kesla and all the people who
03:40have made this possible today.
03:42It's a real pleasure to be here
03:43with you and so let's begin.
03:45So we call this Comic Relief humor
03:47as an essential coping skill.
03:48And in this day and age I think
03:50we can say that this is truly
03:52very much the case in point.
03:54We all need to have a sense of humor to
03:56get through the times that we're in,
03:58no matter who we are and what
04:01we got going on our plate.
04:03So I was thinking of how I could begin this.
04:06I thought I'd begin with a little
04:08bit of interactive type questions,
04:10so let me just put this out there.
04:13Who is your favorite comedian?
04:14No wrong answers,
04:15but I just who comes to mind when
04:17you hear the word comedian and you
04:19think back to when you watching
04:22television back perhaps or so your
04:24movies and such who comes to mind?
04:26And let's see if I come across
04:28the someone who's on your on your
04:30screen here you mental screen.
04:32These people look familiar.
04:33Anybody here?
04:34Have these is your favorite comedians?
04:36Or how about these guys?
04:37There's no short list of who we have
04:40as possibilities here and I got one
04:43more set of people to take a look at.
04:45So we think comedians.
04:47We think of laughter.
04:48We think of humor and this is
04:50someone who actually makes a smile.
04:52Now the next question I have for
04:54you is what's your favorite comedy
04:56movie and there's no shortage here.
04:58Without these we have scores of these,
05:00you know from Charlie Chaplin to Eddie
05:03Murphy on everything in between.
05:05So my question to you is,
05:06does any of these show up as
05:08some of your favorite movies?
05:09And I went through and try to pull
05:11us online here at movies I thought
05:13I ask you if these ring true for
05:15you as well and so we tend up when
05:17we look for comedy for humor.
05:19We tend to look for movies as one
05:21source for this is not the only source.
05:23One source of this and of course
05:24a lot of comedians are in these
05:26movies so you see the dots connect
05:28like that as well.
05:29Last not least,
05:30at least for this question,
05:31here is what are some of your
05:33favorite TV shows and I think we
05:35all have tapped into the wealth of.
05:37Binge watching the past year
05:38or so during this pandemic.
05:39For some, some great Comic Relief and
05:41there's no short supply of comedies.
05:43There's no wrong answer here,
05:44but I just thought I put up a couple
05:47of some of the things that come to mind here.
05:50Course everything from Seinfeld,
05:51Amaro, big fan of the new show,
05:53called Ted Lasso.
05:53If you haven't seen that,
05:55highly recommend it.
05:56And of course we have Schitt's Creek
05:58and God knows what else up here.
05:59If you don't see your show here,
06:01know that there is plenty to go around,
06:04but just kind of get you
06:05an idea of the mindset of.
06:07Begin to look for some of comedians,
06:10movies and TV shows to add into your
06:12toolbox for health and well being.
06:15'cause humor is so essential. Well,
06:18one more question I have for you is this.
06:20You know a lot of times we exaggerate to
06:22try and show the absurdity of of life.
06:24So you know you're having a bad day when
06:27and I could ask you to fill this in for
06:29when you think you're having a bad day,
06:31but I went looking on the Internet.
06:33I found this is the best dancer.
06:35You know you're having a bad day
06:37when your dinner eat your lunch.
06:40OK, insert laugh now.
06:43Well, I thought I'd try and pay
06:45a big picture of how humor fits
06:47into this picture of Wellness
06:48and health and well being.
06:50And it turns out that stress plays
06:52a big role of this and so just to
06:54kind of give you a perspective.
06:56The nature stress is huge.
06:58We could spend a lot of time talking
07:00about this particular aspect,
07:01but there's two kinds of stressors,
07:03good stress and bad stress.
07:05Distress is when you feel euphoric,
07:07you feel exhilarated.
07:07You actually feel happy,
07:09and this is actually where the
07:11humor comes into play there.
07:12We talking bout distress but not today.
07:14We will and acknowledge it but I
07:16spent a lot of time with that.
07:18Well,
07:18turns out that we do want to
07:20talk about stress Physiology.
07:21'cause that's important plays
07:22a role in health,
07:24and it turns out that when you get stressed,
07:26you nervous system kicks in.
07:28If it goes on for a long period time,
07:30it's also going to kick in
07:32your hormonal system.
07:33But when the hormonal system
07:34kicks in for too long,
07:35then it affects your immune system
07:37and for everyone right now,
07:39and cancer patients are certainly
07:40no exception.
07:41When this is affected,
07:42then we've got problems and so
07:44we want to try and minimize the
07:46effect of stress on the body and.
07:48Your scores are researchers show
07:49that that unresolved issues of anger,
07:51fear, anger, fight,
07:52fear flight tends to suppress
07:53the immune system,
07:54and so humor is a way to try and negate this.
07:58And it's not like we're talking
08:00rainbows and unicorns all day long.
08:02Here,
08:02we just want to try and find balance,
08:04and so we want to try and enhance the system,
08:07not suppress it because we need every
08:10white blood cell we can get our hands on.
08:13But let's connect some dots.
08:15There's all kinds of research to show that
08:17stress actually can make cancer worse,
08:19and we don't want that at all.
08:22And so when people heard this research
08:24and began to see the connection going on,
08:27they thought,
08:27is there any chance we can try
08:29and engage this and try and help
08:32our immune systems?
08:33And lo and behold,
08:34there is scores research about
08:36how humor can be used for
08:37cancer patients and the cancer
08:39treatment. And it turns out that
08:41indeed it helps. No one ever says.
08:43That humor cures cancer and
08:45please don't get me wrong,
08:47I am not saying that either,
08:48but it does tend to bring some
08:50some balance to our emotions,
08:52which is really essential in times
08:54of our health and well being.
08:55And of course, right now you throw
08:57on layers of stress with the pandemic
08:59and we're all affected by this, so.
09:02So no, we're not paint
09:03rainbows and unicorns here.
09:04Don't get me wrong,
09:05but I want to actually paint the bigger
09:08picture and then show you that yeah,
09:10now research is showing that humor
09:12can definitely have a positive
09:13impact in our cancer treatment.
09:15And I think that's a great thing,
09:17especially this integrative approach
09:18we talk about in terms of mind,
09:20body, spirit, healing.
09:21But that's not alone.
09:23Here's another article I came across.
09:25Look at this laughing at cancer,
09:26humor, empowerment, solidarity,
09:27and coping with the whole process of cancer.
09:30So lots of research studies.
09:31I'm not going to go into great detail,
09:33but enough to validate the idea
09:35that humor is very important in our
09:37healing process and healing means to
09:39come to a place of sense of peace.
09:42That's really what we're talking about here.
09:45So you may have heard this term,
09:47positive psychology.
09:48That's the big buzzword these days,
09:49and basically what it means is
09:51basically we're going to have
09:53a sense of balance if you get
09:55nothing else on this talk.
09:57That's what we're trying to achieve.
09:59Here is a sense of emotional balance,
10:01not get stuck into the anxiety of of health,
10:04or lack thereof and cancer
10:05conducting produce.
10:06A lot of that because
10:07there's a lot of unknowns,
10:09but positive psychology says let's
10:10bring ourselves balance here.
10:12And of course,
10:13love being the biggest way to do that.
10:16This is not what positive psychology is it.
10:18You know, it's like mentioned before already.
10:20This idea of rainbows and unicorns were
10:22not saying to deny yourself the sense
10:24of grief and frustration and anxiety.
10:25That's all part of the human experience,
10:27but we don't want to get stuck there.
10:29And so humor as a way to try and
10:32bridge this so that we can kind of
10:34like come in that sense of balance.
10:36And if I do my job,
10:38Crockett today will see if we can
10:39kind of find that sense of balance.
10:41So this is for all the nurses I know
10:44a few nurses in the audience is.
10:46Denise,
10:46this one's for you since Nurse
10:48the first person you see it,
10:49you're saying hold my beer and watch this.
10:53Well,
10:54I gotta tell you when I was
10:56asked by the people here to do
10:58this presentation of humor,
10:59I got a little nervous because I've
11:01done presentations for past 20 years.
11:03I humaran it's great to have an audience
11:06that laughs at what you've got to present.
11:08I everyone's mic is muted,
11:10muted right now,
11:11so I can't hear anybody which is
11:13good. 'cause I can't hear
11:14cats and babies crying.
11:16But the same token.
11:17And you can't either.
11:18But the same token, I can't hear you laugh.
11:21And so I was watching to be Fallon.
11:23And when he got his show boot
11:25from his studio to his house,
11:27he was doing his monologue and all his
11:30jokes were falling flat until he got
11:32smart and began to use a laugh track.
11:34And so I took his idea and I'm
11:36going to play every now and then.
11:39A little bit of laughter to kind of
11:41like add in this audience feel so
11:43even though I can't hear you laugh.
11:45I hope you're laughing 'cause
11:47I have some funny stuff,
11:48but it's also funnier when we
11:50can hear other people laughing.
11:52So imagine you're an audience
11:53right now we're all.
11:54Can I gather together or?
11:56Having a good time.
11:57So learn how to be your own best audience.
12:00This is the message of the day,
12:02because really,
12:02this is what the message of Wellness is.
12:04We gotta take care of ourselves many times.
12:07If you laughed when you thought it was funny,
12:09no one else laughed.
12:10That's OK, because that's what
12:12we call a geographic joke.
12:14Well, I want to begin with this guy here.
12:16This is Norman Cousins and he's known
12:18as the patron Saint of humor therapy.
12:20He had a very serious illness.
12:22Wasn't cancer,
12:22but was an autoimmune disease and
12:24he was told he was going to die.
12:26Yeah,
12:27one in 500 chance of survival and
12:29he checked out of the hospital,
12:30went to hotel and as a truth be told,
12:33he actually began to watch all kinds
12:35of funny movies and he actually got
12:37better and he got better like this.
12:39He basically said this if negative emotions,
12:41anger and fear can cause
12:43physical dysfunction.
12:43Is it possible that positive
12:45emotions like laughter,
12:46humor can restore him back to health?
12:48He said I got nothing to lose and
12:51then he said this each person must
12:53take responsibility for his or her own
12:56health and so he left the hospital
12:58with his doctor's blessing went to
13:00a hotel across the street and began
13:03to watch Charlie Chaplin movies
13:05and things like Laurel and Hardy.
13:07Things like the Marx Brothers to lift
13:09his spirits and of course the Three Stooges.
13:12One is a face favourites and in the
13:14Little Rascals one of my favourites.
13:16And then he actually got better.
13:18And he wrote an article and then he
13:21wrote a book about it and it the
13:23books called them and even illness as
13:26perceived by the patient and in his
13:28book was like 130 pages in this book only.
13:32Two or three pages about humor,
13:34but everyone focused on this one sentence he
13:36had in his book in the sentence was this,
13:39he said.
13:40I mean,
13:40the joy of discovery that 10
13:42minutes of genuine belly laughter
13:44had amnestic effect and would give
13:47Me 2 hours of pain free sleep.
13:49In this revolutionized how we
13:51see health right now,
13:52to think that psychosomatic is not
13:54just about making yourself sick.
13:56You can actually make
13:57yourself better in this case.
13:59Here they have some some quality sleep.
14:02Well, people have been studying the
14:05Physiology of laughter ever since
14:06I was about 1964 and we now have
14:09research to show that that laughter
14:11tends to boost immune system.
14:12It tends to increase all kinds
14:14of brain chemicals,
14:15which tend to give balance to our Physiology.
14:18It never.
14:18No one's ever said humor and
14:21laughter has cured a disease.
14:23But it does bring a sense of balance,
14:25and that's what the message really here is.
14:27And so people have been looking at the
14:29history of human for quite some time.
14:31And you know,
14:32back to ancient Greece we have both
14:34comedies and tragedies in the theater.
14:36And I'm not saying that we will laugh
14:38at some of their theater, but you know,
14:41back in, I suppose it worked.
14:42But even the Bible is a quote that
14:45says a merry heart does good,
14:47like medicine,
14:48but a poor spirit dry if the bones
14:50and people say it's in the Bible,
14:52it's gotta be true, right?
14:53Well,
14:53I found this actually was a bit of a human.
14:56The dark ages.
14:57I thought that was a little clever,
14:59so even some of the Masons have
15:01a sense of humor there.
15:03But back in the Middle Ages,
15:04the word humor means moisture
15:06and so the idea was you had four
15:08humors in your body, collar,
15:09bile, blood and phlegm.
15:10And if he had too much of any one of these,
15:14you were in poor humor.
15:15So if you too much color, you are melancholy.
15:18That's where that word comes from.
15:20Too much bile.
15:21You were angry or hostile, too much blood.
15:23You were giddy or delirious,
15:24and if you hae kalugi,
15:26then you were actually apathetic.
15:29Then comes the Victorian age.
15:30I think human history is
15:32kind of interesting here,
15:33but look at these quotes of the
15:35Victorian age laughter on any
15:37occasion is immoral and indecent.
15:39My goodness.
15:39How about this laughter obscures the truth,
15:42hardens the heart and stroke
15:43defies understanding.
15:44Ouch and then look at this amana
15:46parts and fashion is only seem
15:48to smile but I've never heard to
15:50laugh that was Lord Chesterfield.
15:52And the reason why is because if
15:54you were laughing it was thought to
15:56be a sin and nobody wanted to be
15:59caught sinning 'cause you know they
16:01put in the stockades or something.
16:03So these people did not have the
16:05words cheese on their lips when
16:07they were taken in this photograph.
16:09Taken until they look pretty seriously.
16:10One of my students gave me this.
16:12Have a day. Yep, not even a nice day.
16:15Just have a day.
16:17Well, we've got to define humor,
16:19so here's a couple of definitions
16:21and there's no agreement here.
16:23How about this humor?
16:24The quality of being funny or
16:26appreciating funny thoughts
16:27or accent behavior.
16:29The ability to perceive
16:30and enjoy what is funny or
16:32comical. A state of mind,
16:34a feeling or mood.
16:35Even though some people who say
16:37it's not a mood, it's a perception.
16:40So how about this humor than mental
16:42experience of discovering and experiencing
16:44ludicrous or absurd ideas, events,
16:46or situations that bring pleasure
16:48or enjoyment to the individual?
16:50So they talk about perception and Lord
16:52knows how many times have you thought
16:54you heard the funniest joke and you
16:55tell somebody and they don't laugh,
16:57they don't get it.
16:58Well, it's perception and I pray
17:00to God that that your perception
17:01is the same as mine.
17:03When I share with you some
17:04funny stuff later on today.
17:06Otherwise I will be laughing alone.
17:08So we definitely want to get
17:10rid of the elephant.
17:11The room there is appropriate
17:13and there's inappropriate humor.
17:14In case you're wondering,
17:15this is the inappropriate stuff,
17:17and we're not going to have
17:18examples of this today,
17:19so I just want to make it really clear
17:22that this is not appropriate humor.
17:24And we it's not appropriate
17:25for any occasion anytime,
17:26so we don't do that because
17:28it creates stress.
17:29It doesn't alleviate stress,
17:30and our whole purpose here
17:32today is to alleviate stress.
17:34So we don't even think about it.
17:36That's the idea behind that.
17:37Well,
17:38you know I was in academia as you heard,
17:40and a full time I taught a class called
17:43Human Health, and I gotta tell you,
17:45I read lots of books,
17:46none of which were funny.
17:47I might add,
17:48but I did come across some interesting
17:50wisdom that said that there's four
17:52reasons why we laugh and smile.
17:53This,
17:54by the way,
17:55is one of my friends who's a nurse.
17:57I oncology nurse.
17:57Her name is Fran Ann and I just
17:59thought I'd throw that in there
18:01because she's quite the character.
18:03But these are the four
18:04reasons we laugh and smile.
18:06This theory, theory,
18:07incongruity, the release,
18:09relief, anonymity theory?
18:10Let's take a closer look.
18:13So the spirit of the theory says
18:15the reason why we laugh and smile.
18:16And by the way, this coming to us from Plato.
18:19So this is like thousands of years old.
18:21It says the reason why we laugh and smile is
18:23because we laugh at other peoples expense.
18:25So here are some examples of this and
18:27the higher up they are in authority,
18:29the more we laughed.
18:30So you know the Queen of England
18:32picture nose then haha we laughed.
18:34Looks like people are really going out there.
18:37Tiger Woods, the golfer.
18:38You know he's down the
18:40whole not looking to go.
18:41We laugh.
18:43This I got from from Life magazine was the
18:45last photograph we used to have a last one.
18:48I gotta be like a humorous
18:50photograph called parting shots.
18:52It of course,
18:53I just got this off the Internet.
18:55Be helpful if they could actually spell,
18:57but we won't go there on that one.
18:59You see, spelling is actually pretty good.
19:01This is a bad day water scheme.
19:03Looks like Matthew
19:04McConaughey if you ask me.
19:05Hope you got a suit back.
19:07You get the idea and then this is
19:09one of my friends gave me this
19:11from Tennessee says Redneck Smoke
19:12alarm detector insert laugh.
19:14Now let's try a little bit of laughter.
19:19OK, there we go.
19:21This is getting me by a woman who's blonde,
19:23now a blonde, can make a blonde joke.
19:25The rest of us do not make blonde jokes.
19:27Nikki, the next theory, by the way.
19:29That was more emotional basis
19:31once more cognitive base.
19:32The next series,
19:33called the Incongruity Theory.
19:34This is hi, this is Dallas psychic.
19:36We knew you were going to call us so.
19:38We called you first.
19:39So these are things that don't make sense.
19:41Two things that come together
19:43when they come together.
19:44You just kind of scratch your
19:45head and then you get a laugh.
19:47So here are some examples.
19:49Charlie Chaplin.
19:50Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie
19:52Chaplin lookalike contest in Switzerland.
19:55He got third place.
19:58Whatever you do, always give 100%
20:00unless you're donating blood,
20:01you might want to hold back a little bit.
20:04Sorry, we are closed due to short staff,
20:06higher taller staff 'cause I need a Taco.
20:10And how about this? More laughter there.
20:17Yeah, incongruity.
20:20Here's a little video for you.
20:41Premium lot, some drinking
20:43'cause they're responsible.
20:49I like the word tired of being fat and ugly.
20:51Just be ugly. Come to the gym.
20:55And what it's casual Friday isn't it.
20:56This was given to me by a nun.
20:58By the way I thought it was pretty funny.
21:00So it's incongruous.
21:01Ian none in an amazing group.
21:02And in case you didn't get that.
21:04I'm I'm already disturbed please come in.
21:09And then of course,
21:10Dylan's got all kinds of things
21:12and he's no longer on Late Show,
21:14but you get the idea. Anyway,
21:16here's some examples from his headlines,
21:18famous Jay Jay Leno headlines, Mussel health,
21:20food store due to failing health in Ohio,
21:22made 79 pronounced dead,
21:23but says he feels much better now.
21:25Don't try that at home, please.
21:29Lyrics right for free help.
21:33And would it be cool if we had
21:35genetic engineering to make dogs
21:36look like this would be cool to have
21:38Dalmatians in different colors,
21:39but be careful 'cause we could have
21:41a ferocious man if you rabbit.
21:43Yes, I could be problematic and again
21:45in category two things come together.
21:47They don't make sense.
21:48You get a laugh like this.
21:50Anyway, I recognize that guy in Star Trek.
21:54OK, so the next theory is by Freud.
21:56He actually had a theory, got humor.
21:59It's called the release relief theory.
22:00It's also called taboo humor,
22:02and this is the stuff that
22:04kind of gets in trouble.
22:05So I had to clean this one up.
22:08But just to give you some examples
22:10of things which said that basically
22:11the reason why you laugh and
22:13smile isn't because of the expense
22:15of somebody else isn't,
22:17because then you'll get it cognitively.
22:18It's because of suppressed ****** desires.
22:20So here we go,
22:21or things which basically just say no,
22:24that's taboo.
22:25So you see something like this that
22:28might be in the category of this.
22:30I saw this on the Internet that
22:32was pretty places they want to.
22:34Noah's Ark and this says good luck.
22:35Bring those two Lions were two
22:38men not gonna happen.
22:39This is by any chance.
22:40Have you been rubbing the ****** on
22:42your head and swallowing the Rogaine?
22:44Look at this guy's tail.
22:48And your spell check when you need it.
22:50I'll tell you how we need it.
22:52For some reason, a lot of people have
22:53a hard time spelling with spell check,
22:55and I'll let you read this on your own,
22:58but you get the idea that you
22:59wonder how these things pass muster.
23:01And I don't know. It's unbelievable.
23:03I got one more for you.
23:04Shoppers will be prostituted.
23:05I think they have the wrong word there,
23:07but when you see this as an example of
23:10what Freud would say is taboo humor.
23:13And then of course it's smell.
23:15Check with you everywhere, not just there.
23:16But this is all the more reason
23:19to be a vegetarian I think.
23:21And I like this and this is, you know,
23:23everyone recognizes Marilyn Monroe,
23:24but this is when life imitates art.
23:27Nothing here in Scotland I might add.
23:32If your package is,
23:33you're going to get something for crashes.
23:34You've already got it.
23:38Here the last theory is the divinity theory,
23:40and this is a spiritual theory,
23:42so we had one that was emotions we can,
23:44one that was cognitively one that
23:46was physical, and now we have one
23:48that's spiritual and this is the
23:50reason why you laugh and smile is
23:52because humor is a gift from God,
23:54very different than the other
23:56theories of my dad.
23:57And by the way, when you see clowns,
23:59clowns are supposed to be dressed
24:01up in the derivation of the shamanic
24:03costume were you couldn't tell
24:05it was male or female and so.
24:07Here is are some examples of of
24:09the idea that immunity theory.
24:11I love this quote.
24:12It says laughter is the shortest
24:13distance between two people and
24:15when people are connected together,
24:17that's a spiritual concept.
24:20And there's actually books about this.
24:22I'm not making this stuff up. First.
24:24Books called Humor Guys gift bitale bottom.
24:26But then we also have the joyful Christ,
24:28the healing power of humor.
24:30When I took a look in here,
24:32I saw some pictures of Jesus that
24:34I didn't even know where possible.
24:36It looks like my college roommates
24:38at the University of Connecticut.
24:39But anyway there we go.
24:41But it's not just for Catholics,
24:42although this is actually,
24:43well, Catholic joke here.
24:46And there's an Easter joke there for you.
24:48It's also something that dialam
24:50a from the Buddhist tradition,
24:51also celebrates and he says
24:52laughter is so important.
24:53If you know anything about him at all,
24:55you know that he definitely loves
24:57to laugh and smile and uses that
24:59in all those presentations and
25:00he has a really high could slap.
25:02It's pretty funny.
25:03And when you hear it, it's very infectious,
25:05so it's it's pretty cool too.
25:08And so I had a couple cartoons voices
25:10don't make the same mistake twice,
25:12saying no to reincarnation is the
25:13reform Buddhist, and here's one for me.
25:15Says OK, everyone.
25:16Now listen carefully.
25:17I don't want to end up with four
25:19different versions of this.
25:21It's a little new Age,
25:22New Testament humor there.
25:24Well,
25:24at the last minute least my
25:26favorite book in the planet,
25:27it's called Children's letters to God.
25:29If you get a chance,
25:30highly recommend to pick this up
25:32and my favorite letter in there
25:34is when this little kid writes,
25:35Dear God,
25:36I don't feel like think came
25:38would have killed Abel if they
25:40had their own bedrooms and he says
25:42it works for me and my brother.
25:44Alright, insert laterals.
25:45Have more laughter there.
25:49OK, there we go. Well,
25:51just to show you how complex humor is,
25:54not only are there for reasons
25:55we laugh and smile, but there's
25:57also many different types of humor
25:59which makes it rather complicated.
26:00In other words, you can have someone tell a
26:03joke and you can laugh at it for one reason,
26:06and somebody else can laugh at it
26:07for a whole different reason.
26:09And it's very, very complicated.
26:10Psychology of humor is complex at best,
26:12and so just to kind of make
26:14sure we're on the same page.
26:16Here are some different types of humor.
26:19The first one is called self parody.
26:21This is when you make fun of yourself
26:23and this is actually thought to
26:25be the highest form of humor.
26:27When you can make fun of yourself,
26:29but not of your own self esteem,
26:31we don't want to lose self-esteem here,
26:33so some classic examples of this would
26:35be things like Rodney Dangerfield.
26:37You know we lost him a couple of years ago.
26:40We're losing so many great comedians
26:42from a certain Golden age of humor,
26:44but it turns out that if you
26:46listen to his humor it was.
26:48It was very self deprecating.
26:50The word they use,
26:51and so that's one example,
26:53but we have others.
26:54Have you ever heard of Jeff Foxworthy?
26:58He's really big on redneck humor
27:00and I'll give you one example of
27:03his with your permission,
27:04he says,
27:05if you stare at a carton of orange
27:08juice 'cause it says concentrate,
27:10you might be a redneck.
27:18Alright, hope you laughed at that one.
27:21Well, he's also making fun of yourself.
27:23You notice her license plate is upside down,
27:25but I gotta tell you I've seen like about 15
27:28cars like this and just one more for you.
27:31Apparently it's it's a. It's a trend,
27:33so it's OK when you make fun of yourself.
27:36This is good, but not at the expense of
27:38your own self-esteem. So self parody.
27:40The ability to laugh at yourself without
27:42sacrificing yourself esteem that is so
27:44important and you know the expression.
27:46Take yourself lightly is what it's all about.
27:48The next category is called
27:49satire and parody.
27:50And of course all our talk shows.
27:53Seem to have a lot of this
27:54in there right recently,
27:56but it began before these two guys actually
27:58began before these guys here in the most
28:00famous show of all is starting at live.
28:02This is the not ready for primetime players,
28:05and I think we have a few people
28:06in the audience who probably
28:08recognize some of these phases here.
28:10We've lost a couple,
28:11but we still have a couple here,
28:13so I just thought I'd put that
28:15in there for old time sake,
28:17but here are some examples
28:18of parody and satire.
28:19Mad Magazine probably half
28:21you grew up with that.
28:23And then how about this?
28:24The complete idiots Guide for Dummies
28:26and you can see that they actually
28:28spelt a lot of words wrong there for
28:30obvious reasons to get the laugh.
28:32And of course we have some
28:34humorous today Berry course.
28:36Bilars lost art book, Walden Robe on back.
28:38But we have lots of of humorists who
28:42basically take a lighter side of the look
28:45of life and that's what this is all about.
28:48And here's one for you.
28:50This is college education.
28:51Of course there's a lot of
28:52knowledge universities,
28:53the freshmen bring a little in.
28:55The seniors don't take much away,
28:57so knowledge sort of accumulates.
28:59Insert laugh now.
29:04OK, and of course parodies are big
29:06with The Princess Bride and Shrek.
29:08Princess Bride was actually a
29:09great parody of a love story Fable,
29:11and then that kind of got blown on.
29:14The water was Shrek,
29:15but again there are some of the best
29:18comedies we have for this type of
29:20parity of fairy tales. If you will.
29:22The next type of humor is called
29:24political humor and this is very topical.
29:26Changes from day to day.
29:28But this one said next time percent.
29:30The cookies are eaten by 1%. The characters.
29:33Occupy Sesame Street insert.
29:34Laugh now and how about this one here?
29:37Climate change is a hoax.
29:39OK, so you get the idea.
29:41Very, very topical. And.
29:44Obvious missed one.
29:45This one says not affiliated
29:47with Carnival Cruise Lines,
29:49you know 'cause they've had their
29:50share of problems with all the
29:52boats there the next time he was
29:54called slapstick and slapstick
29:55actually is a physical farce.
29:57No words stop,
29:58stick comes to us from French
30:00theater with back in the day they
30:02actually had a piece of leather
30:03nailed to aboard that work recreate
30:05the sound of getting slapped across
30:07face horse person and get slapped.
30:09It was all a sound effect and
30:11that's where that word comes from.
30:13But it really means physical farce.
30:15And it's a way to.
30:17How deal with aggression at an
30:19unconscious level so that when you see
30:21someone who gets a pie in the face,
30:23you laugh because at some unconscious
30:25level you would like to have someone get
30:28a pie in the face or slip on a banana peel.
30:31So the examples of this would
30:33be the Marx Brothers now granted
30:35across would do all kinds of humor.
30:37He was a genius,
30:38but the physical forest from Vogel was
30:40definitely the biggest example of that.
30:42And then of course we have the Three
30:45Stooges Classic Classic example of this.
30:47A lot of people thought that he was stupid,
30:49but in one sense it was genius
30:50and how they pulled this off.
30:52And then of course, my favorite Lucille Ball.
30:54If you ever saw the episode with
30:56a lot of embedment and you know
30:58exactly what I'm talking about here,
31:00but she was just the Queen of Comedy
31:02with this sub stick approach to it.
31:05And here's a little video for you.
31:33OK, if you laughed, it's because
31:35there's somebody who you want to have
31:37a Turkey thrown at unconsciously now.
31:39Also, the cartoons like the Road
31:40Runner on the case in point.
31:42I mean, you get a frying pan
31:44over your head and you shake your
31:46head out and did your frying pan
31:48head turns back to normal shape.
31:50This is all a lot of people thought
31:52was aggression based humor,
31:53but it really was a way to release
31:55tension and that's the idea
31:57behind cartoons like this too so.
31:59Slapstick now the next one,
32:02perhaps some of you can relate
32:04to is called black humor,
32:05but black humor is not ethnic humor.
32:07Black humor is called their flirtatious
32:09brush with death and the people
32:11who actually can laugh the most.
32:13The ones who are the front lines
32:15of the healthcare industry,
32:16like nurses, doctors,
32:17first responders by cancer patients,
32:18also can relate to this.
32:20And so if you see that the humor
32:22here but the woman in the caskets
32:24were in the same dress as the
32:26woman who's there at her funeral.
32:28So insert laugh now,
32:29but here are some other examples.
32:31They also called his gallows humor,
32:33by the way,
32:34and this was I found a slide
32:37show for cancer patients.
32:39But the big show example is mash.
32:41You know The funny thing about
32:42this show was that the war,
32:44the Korean War only went on for three years.
32:46This TV show went on for 10.
32:50And of course, scrubs.
32:51Kind of like picked up on some of
32:54the medical humour if you will,
32:55or the gallows humor if you will.
32:57About this one says mind,
32:59if I clear my browser history first,
33:01insert laugh now. This is grampa.
33:04Can you make a noise like a frog?
33:06I don't know why,
33:08because Grandma says when you croak
33:09she'll take me to Disney World,
33:11insert, laugh now.
33:13And then this guy came out with the
33:16book Louis Shaped with a book called
33:18Out The Best in Gravestone Humor.
33:20He went around to see who really
33:22got the last laugh and took a look
33:24at some of Tombstone epitaphs.
33:26And there's lots of which are pretty funny.
33:28But here's my favorite.
33:29It says here lies the body of
33:31Susan Louder who burst while
33:33drinking seltzer powder.
33:34Call from this world to her heavenly rest.
33:36She should've waited till it ever vest.
33:41And this says it ruins the
33:42effect if I say if I say who it
33:45is hit you just come down OK,
33:46get the idea about that.
33:48And just when you thought you
33:49could take with you, sure enough,
33:52that's a that's a case there.
33:55And this is for all the nurses in the
33:56audience is watching woman with a dog.
34:02I think she just took a trip to hospital.
34:04OK, so that's that.
34:06The next category of humor we say,
34:08I think we lost power at number
34:1045 is called the double entendre.
34:12Little jokes as urology
34:13Department can you hold?
34:14Obviously you know double under there.
34:16So double terms.
34:16There's two jokes going on.
34:18Two different levels of this and we see
34:20this a lot with things like James Bond.
34:22There was a lot of double entendres
34:24with the original David James Bond.
34:26Lot of Disney movies if you take your kid to
34:29see a Disney movie back in the 70s and 80s,
34:31not so much now,
34:32but maybe you're laughing at something
34:34your kids laughing at something,
34:35but you think you better be.
34:37Not laughing at what I'm laughing
34:39at this not just too young for that,
34:41but Disney knew how to write it to levels.
34:43And of course,
34:44if you ever watch Austin
34:45Powers the same thing.
34:46So here are some examples
34:48of a double entendre.
34:49Clean up the earth.
34:51It's not Uranus.
34:54Tiger puts balls in the wrong place again.
35:00And I want you to visualize a crack
35:02in the window and see how well you
35:04do and see if it looks like this.
35:06I didn't think so.
35:07Yeah, this is a double entendre too.
35:10And then I saw this.
35:11This is an ad and someone's a subway store.
35:13I'm not going to go there on that one,
35:16but you get the idea.
35:17Let him have ****** connotations there,
35:18which goes back to Freud.
35:20So you see how the dots connect.
35:23The next type of humor is called irony,
35:25and this is when the exact opposite happens
35:27at what you think supposed to happen.
35:29So usually dogs pee in a fire hydrant,
35:32but in this case the fire
35:33hydrant is peeing on the dog,
35:35so some examples of irony someone says.
35:37Can you guys please recommend a book
35:39that made you cry and someone wrote
35:42down organic chemistry made me cry.
35:44Insert laugh now.
35:50OK, this one says works and has been
35:52accident free since it would be a
35:54date but they put since Joe left.
35:58Someone painted a tunnel on a bridge
36:00like this and a car drove into it.
36:03Baby roll, roll over there,
36:05that's kind of ironic.
36:07Question everything,
36:08then someone else wrote down why?
36:13And then someone says to like a bird.
36:15My dad told me you're spying on us.
36:17He says he's not your dad.
36:20A little irony there.
36:21Here's a boat called No worries,
36:23which clearly they've got
36:24something to worry about.
36:25Their little irony there.
36:27And how about this?
36:28Use is watching but the
36:30police have the radar.
36:33At this was great, so 63 spelling quiz.
36:35The only thing this kid got
36:37right was the word illiterate,
36:38which means you will you figure it out.
36:42And then of course,
36:43parking space wheelchairs.
36:44Very clever there.
36:47And this is for Walmart and
36:49Blue Light special for Hanukkah.
36:51Obviously the joke is these people
36:53don't eat ham, so there's the irony.
36:58And simplify 1040 tax form.
36:59How much did you make last year?
37:01Send it in?
37:04Psychic Fair cancelled due
37:06to unforeseen circumstances.
37:10Store closing now hiring all I can say is
37:12you better hurry if you want to work there.
37:15Anhel has definitely frozen over
37:17little bit of irony there too.
37:20And this is for all the guys in the audience.
37:22Hopefully we have several,
37:24but this is the three stages of manhood.
37:26First stage number one second stage #2,
37:29and the Thursdays punchline.
37:31Here #3 we can't relate to that.
37:34But anyway,
37:35hope you got a good laugh out of that.
37:40And how about this for irony?
37:42Very creative, I might add too.
37:46And here's some irony.
37:47People want some fitness,
37:48taking the escalator up to
37:50the top of the stairs there.
37:52Genuine fake watch is actually.
37:54I took this picture when I was in Turkey.
37:57This actually near Ephesus.
38:00And here's a little video for you.
38:04WR107
38:41because you probably thought
38:42that was a little different
38:43than what you expected here,
38:44this is another one I thought
38:45was pretty good to hear about
38:46the best workout partner.
39:18OK, hope you got a good laugh out that
39:20one in the next type of humans called
39:22absurd or nonsense humor and we got 2
39:24Kings of comedy here we have Gary Larson,
39:26the far side or people who imitate him.
39:28And of course even write to and so
39:30Stephen writes a comedian Billy very dry.
39:32Very absurd. I'll give you one
39:33example of his humor.
39:34He says he went to go play poker at
39:36a friends house the other night and
39:38no one could find a deck of cards.
39:40So we played with a deck of tarot cards.
39:43He says I got a full house and
39:45four people died.
39:49Where's my humor?
39:52OK, how about this cartoon look stem cells?
39:57I think it's pretty clever.
39:59The next type of humor is called
40:01quick wit wisdom, and here's some
40:03examples of this annual Garrison.
40:04Keeler had this with Prairie Home companion.
40:06A lot of comedians will do this,
40:08but a lot of times it
40:09goes over people's heads.
40:10And so here's an example.
40:12Everyone has a photographic memory.
40:13Some people just don't have any film.
40:16Here's one more for you.
40:18If you're going to learn to
40:19go skiing cross country,
40:20pick a small country.
40:24And how about this?
40:25Waiting for good dough?
40:27That's pretty quick wit maybe.
40:30Next, one dry humor and puns. You know.
40:32I shudder to think about what you're
40:34going to see next because I swear to God
40:37every time I show these, nobody laughs.
40:39They just kind of grown.
40:40And you know that you are hearing puns.
40:42When you hear a lot of groans.
40:44So even though your myxer muted,
40:46I'm sure we're going to hear some groans
40:48across the miles, but here we go.
40:50Laugh anyway, we need more laughter.
40:52So Ponza furry slippers.
40:53When you say one thing but mean your mother.
40:58You can lock me up behind bars,
41:00but you can't keep my
41:01face from breaking out.
41:02That's a country song by the way.
41:05What do you mean I'm not a bear?
41:07I have all the qualifications.
41:10And here's my favorite
41:11one need narc on no guy.
41:17You can't plant any Flowers
41:19if you haven't bought any.
41:20That's pretty clever, isn't it?
41:22We should use a little sense
41:23of humor in that one here.
41:26OK. The next type is called bathroom
41:30humor and you may think this is the
41:32lowest form of humor, but it's not.
41:33We got one more lower than this and this
41:35also ties into Freud's idea of taboo humor,
41:37so you can see again the dots can
41:39begin to connect here, and so here
41:41are some examples of bathroom humor.
41:43And I gotta clean this up a little bit,
41:45but you get the idea.
41:48That more bathroom humor.
41:49I'm not sure it was going on there,
41:50but someone took a picture of it.
41:54Clever place for a door handle,
41:55don't you think?
41:56Maybe not so clever. I don't know.
41:59And this is where bacon
42:01cheeseburgers are come from.
42:02In case you're wondering.
42:04I'll never eat lunch in this town again.
42:07And all I can say is that tattoo
42:10better not be on my daughter.
42:12Just wondering what were they thinking?
42:15And this is a new type of humor.
42:16It I would call it Corona pandemic humor.
42:18I'm not sure about you,
42:20but I been watching.
42:21Kind of like how people have been
42:22adjusting to all this stuff going
42:24on and he was definitely one way to
42:26cope with the stress of the pandemic.
42:27Aside from everything else.
42:28So here's some things which you
42:30may have already seen before.
42:31'cause there are a lot of memes
42:33on Facebook and social media,
42:34but I thought they were pretty funny.
42:36Share again. So so here goes.
42:39Marty, whatever happens,
42:40don't ever go to 2020.
42:41This is from back the future.
42:46And there's another example
42:47of social distancing,
42:48although it's pretty clever.
42:51Come to the dark side.
42:53We have respirator masks
42:55that's for all the nurses.
42:57And it's a take off on a famous painting.
42:59There's toilet paper shortage
43:00because now we have a gas shortage,
43:02but you get the idea.
43:04And this is a guy who says Dad on phone.
43:06No barking must be a zoom call.
43:10And of course, the whole toilet paper
43:12shortage created a lot of humor.
43:14I'll let you insert your own laughter there.
43:17And of course, this was also
43:19Heidi about who's going to
43:20escape and Republicans species.
43:22The two oldest people on the planet,
43:24and I think so. But anyway,
43:25there was a funny meme there, so should this.
43:28Is he the Last Supper?
43:30Little bit more Catholic humor there,
43:33I suppose.
43:35I like this voice is this mask
43:36will protect you from covid,
43:37but it sure will keep you
43:39with social distancing.
43:42This says you're not going to wear a polka
43:45dotted face mask with a Plaid shirt.
43:47Little little. Comma control over
43:50forgotten is my hero here says it
43:52was only a matter of time before
43:54Karen met the man of her dreams.
43:56I can't believe people were out there.
43:58We're using this stuff for my face mask,
44:00but sure enough, unbelievable and
44:02then how to make repairs joins
44:03forces with Vatican to distribute
44:05communion wafers during the pandemic.
44:06I don't know why I have so many
44:09Catholic jokes here of this must
44:10feel being posted on social media,
44:12but I thought I'd share with you about
44:14irony and then this is corn teen day eight.
44:17Look at the kid up here with duct tape.
44:20In the four stages of quarantine
44:21with Mona Lisa.
44:24And then some people actually were very
44:26creative trying to recreate masterpieces.
44:28And so you see little girl off to the right
44:31side like the painting on the left and then
44:34we have this Norman Rockwell imitation,
44:36which I thought was pretty good.
44:38That's not my style of
44:40artwork right there and then.
44:42Here's one of famous Greek
44:44statues or Roman statues. And.
44:48Here's one you've had worked a long
44:49day at the Covid vaccination site.
44:51Take a look at where this
44:52nurse is putting the needle.
44:58Insert laugh now. This one I thought
44:59was great since I got vaccinated,
45:01but I still want some of you stay
45:03away from me. Insert laugh now.
45:06Well, this is the lowest form of humor.
45:09Sarcasm there was sarcasm means to
45:11tear flesh and it turns out that.
45:13This does not reduce stress and promote
45:16stress, so we don't advocate this at all.
45:18And for the Queen of sarcasm,
45:20Roseanne Barr turns out that
45:22she's not alone with this.
45:23We also have the comic strip of Dilbert,
45:26which is called biting humor,
45:27but we even have things like Maxine,
45:30so I would suggest that this is not the
45:33best way to go to get your sense of humor.
45:36I mean, you may find it funny,
45:38but we can do better than that.
45:41So what does the research say?
45:43The research says that the average
45:45person doesn't have enough.
45:46The average kid laughs 300 times a day,
45:49but the adults not so much an well.
45:51We're in the hospital,
45:52sick zero,
45:53and so the research says we gotta re
45:56examine this and try and get what now we
45:58now know is our quota of 15 laughs a day.
46:01The research shows that we need at least
46:0415 laps today and hopefully we're going
46:07to get that next couple minutes because.
46:10We had together quote it too,
46:11so hopefully we can see how this goes here.
46:14So humor is a great way to reduce stress.
46:16Again to connect some dots because we know
46:18that stress can suppress the immune system.
46:20We want to try and boost the immune system.
46:23So let's go with it with this.
46:25So time to lighten up.
46:26So I gotta tell you went to this
46:28class at the American University.
46:29I told my students.
46:32To try and improve our sense of humor
46:34in every book I read said you can't,
46:36you're stuck with what you got.
46:38I thought kind of if I tell that they're
46:40going to crucify me so I made it this
46:42fictitious list of ways to improve
46:44your sense of humor and they bought
46:46it and I thought they can buy it.
46:48Maybe I can fool you too, so here goes.
46:50Ways to improve your sense
46:52of humor can number one.
46:53Don't take yourself too seriously.
46:54Take yourself lightly and so.
46:55Here are some examples of that.
46:59If I saw SkyDrive knows the highway and
47:01you know 8486 or so 91, I'd be laughing.
47:04I think it's pretty funny.
47:06Daily portrait, pretty clever there.
47:09Don't take yourself too seriously.
47:11This says you've got gallstones,
47:13kidney stones.
47:14Bladder stones.
47:14Welcome to the Stone Age.
47:18Here's one for
47:19you. Other dangerous Game Kids
47:21play is to tunnel in snow banks
47:23near the road. Few years ago. One boy.
47:30That's pretty good. How about this 911?
47:32What's your emergency? Yeah, my wife
47:34got attacked by a warthog real bad
47:37and I need someone to come up with
47:39a handle and some pick her up.
47:41OK Sir, can you give me your address?
47:44Yeah, we're at 1825 eucalyptus drive.
47:46OK, could you spell that for me, Sir?
47:50Oh I I'm gonna drag around over to Oak
47:52Street and you can pick her up there. OK,
47:55insert laugh now.
48:02Well again making fun of yourself.
48:04This is actually a new tattoo that
48:06the people getting who don't have
48:08any hair that was pretty clever and
48:10of course take yourself lightly.
48:12Here's one more video.
48:32Alright, there we go.
48:33This is Patch Adams.
48:34He's very famous doctor.
48:35You probably saw Robin Williams
48:36portray him the movie Patch Adams.
48:37Anyway, he never wants his photograph
48:39take without doing something funny,
48:40so I had to join in with him.
48:42But there's me with Patch Adams.
48:45When all else fails to see the big picture,
48:47we are not the center of the universe.
48:50He #2 find one humorous thing today
48:53and you don't have to look too hard.
48:55Keep looking. Keep looking it says alright.
49:00And then I said was G. Honey,
49:02Jlo is your age ends up in the hospital.
49:06Sorry, we're closed.
49:06We out of meat get worse.
49:08Spell check when you need it.
49:11This would dad get bored babysitting.
49:15I don't know,
49:15I hope this never happened,
49:16but I think it did.
49:18And how can you love Jesus?
49:20Keep texting if you want to meet him.
49:37Hey camera mom.
50:01I can't believe you're still filming anyway.
50:03Don't take yourself too seriously.
50:06If I'm with friends say
50:08funny bigode there we go?
50:10That was pretty clever, huh?
50:13Silence is Golden, duck tape is silver.
50:16And when I saw this,
50:17I thought was the funniest thing.
50:19Hopefully you got some humor out of that too.
50:22Now you know, bad habits are hard to break,
50:24but they're even harder when
50:26you get to be old. Oh my God,
50:28is this stuff keeps on going there.
50:30And how about this?
50:31Bobby has three six candy bars.
50:33He's 29.
50:34What does he have now?
50:36Diabetes Bob has diabetes.
50:41Don't drink and drive like how they spell,
50:43don't.
50:44And my boss told me that
50:46change is super sign,
50:47so I did.
50:50Redneck horseshoes keep looking
50:51for something funny every day.
50:54Employee of the month.
50:55Boy, that's not a good sign, is it?
50:58Caution this sign has sharp edges.
51:00Don't touch the edges of the sign.
51:02Also, the bridge is out ahead, yeah?
51:04And again,
51:05we're spell check when you need it.
51:07So many examples of this.
51:08I know I like it fine.
51:10Lots of am so this next one is
51:12to show you one of my friends
51:13is a paraplegic and he uses
51:15humor to help raise his spirits.
51:17And he said you can add
51:18this to your slide show.
51:20Here's how you can tell if
51:22Catholics are driving too fast.
51:24And here's how you can tell if
51:26Doggos are driving too fast.
51:30And here's one more video for you.
52:12They keep looking OK. We got.
52:14We're kind of running out of time here,
52:16but once it's time for questions,
52:17but I come out more here things
52:19to see if we can help you out.
52:21This is work to improve
52:22your sense of imagination.
52:23Creativity, dear Sir.
52:24We will be delighted to have you work
52:27for a company, but not in this life,
52:29so we don't all have to be Disney.
52:31And Disney was actually very
52:32creative and a lot of the things
52:34like if you ever see Fantasia,
52:35it wasn't a comedy, but there's a lot
52:37of funny moments there and we see him.
52:39Potamos is dressing up and
52:41tutus and dancing and such,
52:42but here's some things.
52:43When you see creativity, humor,
52:44they kind of go hand in hand.
52:46So here's where you don't have enough
52:48money for a car repair this this
52:51I thought was pretty clever baby.
52:53And here's the Vatican elevator door.
52:56Which is pretty clever.
52:57Pretty pretty creative, don't you think?
52:59And this is how to keep all the
53:01cookies to yourself. You know,
53:03so you can pinch your own cookies there.
53:05And that was pretty clever.
53:07Some rock art.
53:09How about this invisible tape?
53:12I think you wanna buy last night if you can.
53:15And this is like a clever way to say
53:17that you're gonna expect a baby.
53:19And that's actually a very clever way.
53:21I don't know how this guy's breathing,
53:23but yeah, definitely very clever.
53:25And look at this kids in the
53:27hospital looking for pizza.
53:28I think it's a great idea.
53:29Very clever. And clever coffee beans.
53:32Imagine that.
53:34And this is a good idea for a perhaps
53:36a good idea for a shopping bag.
53:39It is a clever idea for a coffee Cup.
53:41All different kinds of noses.
53:44Here's the will close.
53:47Great creative way for marketing.
53:49So she is music.
53:52Get this Christmas to you by leaving.
54:03Hello can you hear us?
54:09We are sick hello?
54:13This is the German Coast Guard.
54:20What are you thinking about?
54:28OK, let me see can go quickly here
54:31and get a few more in his second
54:33one to get to 1 more thing here.
54:36Well, it's creative hairdos.
54:37Very creative hairdos and cakes
54:39and I think what will do is
54:41will close out there and save
54:43some times for questions so.
54:45There we go.
54:47And if there are questions that go back,
54:49I got more slices here with you,
54:51but the idea is to see if we can
54:54entertain some questions now about
54:55humor and and laughter and how it
54:57can bring balance into our lives.
54:59So with that,
55:00we'll open things up for questions.
55:03Thank you, thank you for playing that.
55:05Look at this one of my favorite one
55:08just for you. Denise, thank you.
55:12See, it still makes me giggle, and it's
55:15like 10 times I probably seen in for this.
55:18Alright, I don't think there
55:20are any questions per say.
55:21There were some people that were
55:24asking for the link for the the.
55:27Yeah, the Integrative Cancer Center site.
55:32But giesel it put it in the chat box.
55:35So if you would like to access
55:39the links to the other.
55:42Yeah to the other presentations.
55:43There they are all there and this
55:46will be there within by next week.
55:49So. That's I I.
55:51If you have more and you
55:53want to throw some more,
55:55we have a couple of minutes.
55:56We usually can go to a little bit after five.
56:00Yeah, OK,
56:00great. Let's see if I got easier.
56:03I guess it was more videos
56:05to hang outside here.
56:06Was this more creativity here?
56:09Is all hand painting,
56:11but isn't this clever?
56:12And these are some body paintings
56:14that looks like it's a frog.
56:15It's actually three people there.
56:17This is an ad I saw on the truck.
56:20It says Royal Rooter were a Royal flush,
56:22beats a full house every time.
56:25And what about this?
56:26Put this kid?
56:26This outfit on your kid and
56:28then having goal walk the floors
56:29and clean with the same time?
56:30How's that pretty clever?
56:33At the River mouth the best catch coming.
56:36The tastiest most tender salmon.
56:40Which is a drinking journalist want.
57:00The worst to bring you the best.
57:04Connections has learned to hyper
57:05exaggerated describer story.
57:06All the comedians do this.
57:07You know my twin brother is so ugly.
57:10How ugly was he? And so here's
57:11some examples of exaggeration.
57:15You're covered with the
57:17Queens soldiers there.
57:19I got a spider I guess,
57:21so they got more than that.
57:24This is big Betty Davis and Joan Crawford.
57:27Because I didn't celebrate Christmas.
57:29A child in Joe Carpet says that's because
57:32you just wasn't born yet exaggerate.
57:36It's so cold in Washington I
57:38saw a politician yesterday with
57:40his hands in his own pockets.
57:42Another saw this on Pinterest,
57:43maybe see these two.
57:46Think about quite the same way that helped.
57:50And I just brush my dog,
57:51made a new one.
57:52If you have a Husky,
57:53you know what that's like.
57:55The last car that part
57:56here is still missing.
58:00And dating exaggeration here.
58:02We're not dating little joke there.
58:06I don't always listen to Metallica,
58:08but when I do so,
58:10do my neighbors have a real,
58:12loud, extreme fire hazard?
58:14Don't even fart in the forest.
58:16Exaggerate.
58:18And this is the state bird,
58:19I think in Minnesota.
58:23Look how the Walkman was back in 1990.
58:25Now look at it. Your headphones.
58:29And of course, will Comic Relief
58:32there about things in the kitchen.
58:35Michelangelo statue went on tour
58:38by the generosity of McDonald's,
58:40they got back. Didn't look too good.
58:45And this is actually on
58:46some Rd in Connecticut.
58:48You never get to work on time, huh?
58:51And then how about this?
58:52Try blame out one of the dog.
58:55Get the dogs face.
58:57And if we rule,
58:58the world would be a much better place,
59:00but there will certainly
59:00be more bathrooms,
59:01that's for sure.
59:04And of course, the price of gas is going up.
59:06It's going up again too.
59:07So these are pretty current here,
59:09like the one to the right.
59:10It's like honey.
59:11Would you go out and get some gas please?
59:14Exaggerate, so this is exaggeration.
59:18Next month is seeking find a
59:20host of various humorous venues.
59:21Now we all think about TV,
59:23but TV's only unlimited means we could go
59:26much further that we also have comedy clubs.
59:29But you're still right now, probably not.
59:33You can go to.
59:34Although things are opening up and sharing
59:35candy get to but all over the country.
59:37Because of the pandemic.
59:38But we invite you now to build Joyce.
59:40You opened your library.
59:42And so all kinds of videos and cassettes
59:45and DVDs and things like that.
59:47But I have a homework assignment for you and
59:50that is to create your own twickler notebook.
59:54This is assignment I give all my students
59:56all like appear when I give talks on stress.
60:00So here's the assignment I want you
01:00:02to begin to look for funny things,
01:00:05jokes, Jpegs, video snippets,
01:00:06birthday cards, Christmas cards.
01:00:08Dear Abby letters.
01:00:09Dave Berry comes things that make you smile.
01:00:12Laugh because.
01:00:12In the event you end up back in the hospital,
01:00:15most hospitals don't have humor cart
01:00:17you aren't going to have to take
01:00:18responsibility for your own health.
01:00:20Remember the research we 15 laps today.
01:00:21So what are the things that make you smile,
01:00:24laugh?
01:00:24I got a huge collection of jokes
01:00:26that I have over the years.
01:00:27I gotta tell you what my favorite
01:00:29things with my friends went in.
01:00:31He had some prostate cancer and he
01:00:32called me up and he said I want to go
01:00:35in the hospital for surgery tomorrow.
01:00:36Can I have your joke collection,
01:00:38your tickle notebook and I said,
01:00:39well, Stan, it's kind of personal.
01:00:41I'm not sure you're gonna like what
01:00:43I like and he goes, believe me.
01:00:45Because I'll need it.
01:00:46So I went to hospital, drop it off,
01:00:48it said on there do not open till
01:00:50after your surgery and it turns
01:00:51out he called me up and he said
01:00:53I almost popped all my stitches
01:00:55so it turns out that here's some
01:00:56examples I give us everywhere.
01:00:58A lot of people come back to me and
01:01:00say here are some examples that you
01:01:01can put in your slide show for other
01:01:04people who are building their own.
01:01:05Took our notebooks.
01:01:06So this is mostly from kids in middle school,
01:01:08but it could be anybody.
01:01:15Sorry I love you.
01:01:20Dog training for dummies.
01:01:24They're cute. That's cute too.
01:01:28I love this one.
01:01:30It's pretty clever. And how much?
01:01:32This would be a 513 one thing from
01:01:34shampoo to deodorant to Bath Wash.
01:01:36I don't think so.
01:01:38Peanut butter someone had
01:01:39a good time doing this.
01:01:40Cookie Monster strikes again.
01:01:43In that cute for a ticker notebook.
01:01:44I love that picture.
01:01:46A red radiologist take a selfie.
01:01:51And how about this? Another wine miracle?
01:01:55And this is when you get your
01:01:56beach towel from Costco.
01:01:57You could fit the whole beach on it.
01:01:59That's hammonasset dog owners would
01:02:01understand they have Dollar Dog there.
01:02:04I put dark corners on the 80 evidence.
01:02:09Watch for ice.
01:02:12I don't know what was going on there,
01:02:14but it made someone's took on notebook.
01:02:16So to this one. And here is a
01:02:20last video will show for the
01:02:21date my favorite video of all.
01:02:23It's called the end of paper.
01:02:25Emma.
01:02:32Emma.
01:02:37Emma.
01:02:39Yes. In LA.
01:02:48Emma.
01:03:01OK, will stop there.
01:03:04And any other questions,
01:03:05feel free to ask him.
01:03:07Well, no, I think I
01:03:08think we're probably at time,
01:03:10but I so appreciated the
01:03:11giggles today that was really
01:03:13very welcome very well thanks.
01:03:14Hope you got a couple laughs.
01:03:16I know it's it's a different scenario
01:03:18when you're not in your own room there,
01:03:20but but the idea is this.
01:03:22We all have the message to go out
01:03:24there and try and find things that
01:03:27make us laugh and smile because we
01:03:29have to be our own best audience.
01:03:31And we can't rely on someone else.
01:03:33We gotta do it for ourselves, but.
01:03:35Truly, the research shows that it
01:03:37does bring balance into our lives
01:03:39and even helps our mune system.
01:03:42That's what it's about.
01:03:43Thank you. Thank you so much.
01:03:45That was really wonderful.
01:03:47We so appreciate having you today.