Laughter in animals

To me, comedy is a funny story, joke, or sentence that makes me laugh out loud and that allows me to forget all my problems and miseries. I find the American sitcom “Friends” to be very funny. In each episode of the sitcom that ran for ten seasons, starting in 1994 and ending in 2004, the 6 friends: Rachel, Ross, Joey, Chandler, Phoebe, and Monica encountered different problems and situations that they solved in their own unique way. Watching comedy is like taking a break, having a good laugh,…

Laughter is something you look forward to every day, you just don’t know it. When you laugh you feel like it will make anyone laugh, but many people might not laugh with you. If you are a person who laughs a lot, why do you laugh? Is it because someone a funny joke or is it because someone fell down? If you laugh for a good reason , than you know the good things in life. One of my many good experiences with laughter is when my brother, Jaxon, acts like he is a cat. It makes me laugh every time.…

Lastly the mechanical theory created by Henri Bergson, breaks down repetition and why machine like characteristics turn out to be laughable. Most comic characters depend for their laughs on enduring personality traits: Take Homer Simpson's inability to anticipate consequences — "Doh!" — or Austin Powers' single-minded sex-drive. The French philosopher Henri Bergson believed that it is inadaptability or rigidity — the repetitive nature of our personalities— that is the source of humor. If this…

people in more areas than just entertainment? According to the articles, “Carry on Laughing?” and “The Therapeutic Value of Laughter in Medicine”, it can. Evidence in both articles indicates that laughter can be used to improve health. In the article “Carry on Laughing”, Roger Dobson relates how recent studies performed by various colleges and hospitals proved that laughter can be beneficial to health (2008). One study was performed on a group of mothers with babies diagnosed with eczema. The…

Anthony Robles is a former wrestler who won the 2010-11 NCAA individual wrestling championship in the 125-pound weight class while attending Arizona State Unviersity. In 2012, he released his book Unstoppable: From Underdog to Undefeated: How I Became a Champion. During this time, he was also inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Robles’ mother gave birth to him at the age of 16. Doctors were not prepared to find that he was born with only one leg. There was simply no medical…

Life in the bunker with Murphy was pure bliss. Late night dances, getting drunk and talking about everything that came to mind...the simple stuff. "What do you want to watch?" Murphy said from across the room near the stack of DVD's. You were cuddled up beneath the silk sheets of the king-sized bed in the master bedroom. "Do you really need to ask?" "Hocus Pocus it is then." He laughed as he shook his head. You have probably made him sit through that one movie hundreds of times, but he grew to…

After the twenty-year high school reunion Doug, Sally and Clint were all sitting at the local diner visiting their old friend Bob, who worked at the diner. The four of them were reminiscing over high school experiences. Sally was talking about her favorite teacher Mrs. Stewart. “I remember the first day of Algebra. Walking in I saw Doug in his khakis, blue button up, orange bow tie, and loafers. He looked fairly intelligent so I decided to go and sit next to him. Then Mrs. Stewart smiled telling…

Ha, ha, ha, - that's all she does. Alyse is a Giggly Girl. I bet you can guess the award - yup ,“The Giggly Girl Award”.She is energetic and laughs at every everything. She’s about my height just a little taller and she has long blond hair. When she laughs her hair goes everywhere. I remember when she came over. It was about 6:00 a.m. She was asleep and I was bored- so I did what most impatient people my age would do - I woke her up. I don’t remember what we were talking about. Then a…

I’m a dead man. Humorless, forever somber, what I was supposed to be my entire life. But you know that, they all know that. The papers, the news, I’m dead world! But I wasn’t always dead, and I wasn’t always alive either. Ah yes, my first baby steps, one small step for man, one giant leap to comedy gold. Ha ha, you can keep that Armstrong, both of you. That stuff’s way too powerful. But yeah, I’m a comedian, or at least I was until my bones manifested into the meaningless microphone I’m…

We all have memories of reading, however we each have our own unique experiences. I have many wonderful memories of reading, but unfortunately I vividly remember the negative experience because it hit me the hardest. I went to Riverdale Elementary School, a dry dull red brick school. When I was in first grade, the school was offering tutors, sixth graders, to help the students in the lower grades. The sixth graders specifically helped with reading, and they were trying to pace the students to be…