My Day Without Laughter Is A Day Wasted

Humor most definitely is an instinct that evolved to serve some purpose in everyone’s lives. There is a meaning The story, What Makes Us Laugh by Leon Rappoport thoroughly analyzes the different theories in people’s reactions of humor. Rappoport discusses how certain jokes succeed and fail, why we laugh when we don’t think we should, and why sometimes we might not react to humor. I found this part quite interesting when he was saying certain people react with either boredom or fascination, with boredom being more prevalent. Personally, I would be captivated in this analysis of theories because not only is it interesting, but it also teaches one further about humor than one would not expect, especially the theory of superiority.

1-Aside from improving our moods, laughter can reduce stress, help fight infection, and reduce pain.

Laughter relates to positive thinking. The positive thinking helps us to improve our immune system and become healthier. It helps in removing the negative thoughts from our mind and not letting our immune system become worse further.

It’s weird to say but I love to cry (something I’ve always known) – I’m a hard core hopeless romantic and I like to feel the emotions the characters are feeling no matter what they are. As much as I hate politics when I watch my favorite talk shows I do find myself debating their views with my own. All my drama shows that I watch I found myself wondering what I would do if I was in their situation. Meaning that the shows challenge my moral and values. The conscience of the television got into my conscious which made me switch around what I would watch. When my drama shows tugged to hard at my sad emotions I would turn my superhero show as if I needed saving from this theoretical

Patch may have been on to something since science itself claims laughter is good for the human body. For one, decreasing the pain you feel and helping your blood vessels to function better; allowing them to expand which increases blood flow. All of which is good for the heart and brain. (Hara Estroff Marano,

Laughing in itself is therapeutic. People laugh for many different reasons. Some people even laugh when something horrible occurs, it is a method of escape from what horrors or mishaps are going on around you. "Many psychotherapists find humor a valuable tool in helping their patients to solve their social and emotional problems." (G. Samuel) Chief bromden was

Maintaining a sense of humour – the job that we do within school is obviously very important, however sometimes it helps to see the funny side of some situations as laughter can be a good way to break the ice and is also a great way of relaxing and relieving stress.

Television has been keeping me entertained for as long as I can remember. I have always been a big fan of watching television such as shows, movies, and especially sports. For movies and shows, I love how it forces me to make me use my imagination even though in the back of my mind I know that everything that’s happening is completely fake. It’s caused me to think deeper about things I never thought I would think about, and given me a lot of great memories. Even though television has been a very positive part of my life, there has also been some downside to it as well. Television has affected me in a negative way because it paints a picture reality that sort of tricked me into thinking it was true. When I was younger I was extremely gullible and easily influenced and really wanted to be able to live like some of the characters that I saw on the screen. An example was in about 7th grade I started watching this hilarious show called How I Met Your Mother. My parents refused to let me watch it but I would always find a way to watch it on my laptop without them knowing. There was this character name Barney Stinson who I really admired and was determined to be like when I grew up. In the show he was rich, well dressed, ladies man who seemed to have everything going for him. He was a total hound dog in the show who expressed the joy of constantly going to bars, sleeping with random women, and then never calling

The TV show I have chosen to look at is The Office. This is not a TV show that I watch frequently. My daughter is the one who watches it on a regular basis and sometimes I will sit and watch it with her. The Office is a comedy that uses satire to make fun of religion, race, and sex.

When I first think about why I have a passion for comedy, I think of it as being powerful and special. It is one of those things that can unite people. Laughter doesn’t discriminate, it doesn’t matter your ethnicity, religion, political opinion, etc., this is what I believe makes it so captivating. With humor you can as least for a little while forget about everything going on around you, regardless of the simplicity or complexity of the situation. It is a way for us to keep our sanity and gives us the opportunity to come together and put serious issues aside or be able to look at those issues in a less hostile manner. Laughter is one of those things everyone can appreciate, and should have a healthy amount of

I watch TV shows such as Pretty Little Liars, The Middle, Modern Family, and The Vampire Diaries

The causes of laughter can be divided into three main groups. One manifestation is laughter as a reflex, such as due to ticking. Another is as a psychosomatic response prompted by a specific stimulus. This is an informative stimulus such as a word, sentence, gesture, action, recollection, situation, etc. This requires the involvement of perception, learning, and memory. This reaction may or may not be terminated voluntarily. The third is again a psychosomatic response, but is differentiated because it is not caused by an adequate informative stimulus and can be terminated voluntarily.

I use laughter as a weapon of defense. For example, a few months ago I fell down the stairs hurt my ankle and bruised my arm. There was nothing on the stairs that I tripped over I am just a clumsy person. Immediately afterwards I laughed so hard that I could not breathe. Family members rushed over to help me get up and clean the blood off my arm. I sat there making jokes about always falling to eliminate suffering from embarrassment. I prefer people to laugh with me instead of at me.

Return to Laughter is an anthropologic novel written by Elenore Smith Bowen. Her novel was not intended to be an ethnography, but rather a fictional account of her interpretation of the bush tribe called Tiv of Northern Nigeria. Bowen was an American anthropologist who spent a year in Africa studying the people of the Tiv tribe, learning their language and engaging herself in their culture. In her studies, Bowen found that kinship was very important to the natives. She also found a new perspective on time and space throughout her research in Africa.

This piece analyzes the sitcom in comparison to stand-up comedy. In the chapter “What’s So Funny About America?” sitcoms are broken down into elements that contrast those of stand-up. Marc describes the two forms of comedy as very different. He states that sitcoms depend on “familiarity, identification, and redemption of popular beliefs” while stand-up normally relies on “the shocking violation of normative taboos.”