Laughter is the Best Medicine

A GYMNAST WALKS INTO A BAR … HITS HIS HEAD.

What’s funny to you? Does Chris Rock make you laugh or do you prefer the Three Stooges? Witty puns or slapstick? Sight gags or New Yorker cartoons? Fart jokes or Lenny Bruce? Laughter is universal. Everyone laughs.. except maybe Leonard Nimoy. When it comes to what produces laughter, well, that’s a different story. After all, Jerry Lewis is revered as a genius in France. In Italy, Roberto Benigni packs ’em in. Meanwhile we Americans have yet to fully explain Andrew Dice Clay. Obviously, humor can be a matter of opinion. And comedic opinions fluctuate widely.

Duck walks into a bar and says: “[‘mfeeliu’down.”

Describing what comedy does to us often has a decidedly humorless tinge. A good joke can beside-splitting and might crack you up, leave you in stitches or in tears. ..it could double you over or have you busting a gut. “You’re killing me,” we shout to the stand-up comic who has reduced us to putty … as the involuntary, simultaneous contraction of fifteen facial muscles occurs in tandem with a rhythmic series of noises. “Laughter is a reflex,” says journalist Arthur Koestler, “but unique in that it serves no apparent biological purpose; one might call it a luxury reflex.” One might … but one usually doesn’t.

A lawyer passes the bar…

Children laugh, on average, 400 times a day. For adults, the number is 15. So, it doesn’t matter what makes you laugh.. .but that you do remember to. Doctors Gael Crystal and Patrick Flanagan call laughter “a form of internal jogging that exercises the body and stimulates the release of beneficial brain neurotransmitters and hormones.” Endocrinologist Stanley Tan has found that humor and exercise trigger “similar physiological processes,” i.e. releasing neuro-hormones that act “like an orchestra, each instrument makes a particular note. Laughter makes the entire orchestra more melodious or balanced. In other words laughter brings a halanee.

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Laughter is the Best Medicine