My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh. — Jim Carrey
Today, laugh away moments of frustration.
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Sean Connery the Plumber
“If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.” That phrase has been said to me over the years by so many people – friends, family, co-workers… and…
Faithful Departed: Joan Rivers
For a long time, Joan Rivers made me uncomfortable. As a generally polite, social rule-abider who tends to be overly concerned about what others think,…
Late Night Catechism
I don’t remember the first time I made someone laugh, but I must have liked it. As a boy growing up in suburban Chicago, I…
Faithful Departed: Marcia Wallace
“I’m no beauty. I’m no genius. I can’t sing. I can’t dance,” Marcia Wallace said years ago at a speaking engagement in Indiana, “But, it…
God Laughs — And Lasts
My mother and I walked into the stone church, dimly lit for the Taizé service. Fifteen people sat scattered in the pews around us, softly singing…
Isaac Means Laugh
We knew we were in trouble when the shoes floated down the hallway. My brother was the first to notice water leaking through the floor…
I sometimes think that God, in creating men, somewhat overestimated his ability. — Oscar Wilde
Laugh at one of your faults today; then notice your judgement of someone else’s flaw and laugh at that too. (Not to their face though.)
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? — Art Hoppe
Tell a joke to someone today.
Playful Politics
We all know there’s a presidential election going on, right? And presidential elections are serious affairs with serious candidates running for a serious job with serious consequences. But with campaigns running effectively nonstop for years (Mitt Romney started running in 2007 and hasn’t really stopped since), all that seriousness gets very tiring. Maybe it’s time for some laughs — a little humor to go with all of the speeches, campaign rallies, candidate e-mails, and election TV commercials that we have been reading, watching, and even avoiding for the past many, many months.
There are, thankfully, some good laughs to be had on the campaign trail. If you’re a fan of Obama, there wasn’t much funny in the first presidential debate. But the VP debate a week later had Joe Biden laughing and provided plenty of material for The New York Times to create songified debate highlights. There was a repeat performance based on this week’s presidential debate (above)…
