My oldest finds humor in everything. No subject is taboo to him. If there's a joke or a pun to be made, he'll make it. Someone said comedians have a third eye for the funny and where it pertains to my son, that is true! My youngest is still testing the comedy pool water but tends to be snarky with his humor. My husband tries to be funny but fails, miserably, because he thinks that yelling the punch line will make it funnier. Often the funniest thing about his jokes is him laughing at himself and the stunned and scared looks of the people he's talking/yelling at.
I like Victor Borge and especially his phonetic punctuation routine. I love Danny Kaye, Groucho Marx, Gallagher, Bill Cosby, and Jerry Lewis. I cannot stand "humor" like the Three Stooges. What makes us laugh is as personal as the type of music we listen to. And, just like music, humor has a profound effect on the human mind, body, and soul. There are a million different studies showing the effects, or benefits, of humor and laughter. These studies suggest that laughter helps to increase blood flow, aids in boosting one's immunity by raising the levels of the anti-bodies that help us fight infections. It's also been suggested that laughter helps us fight fear and depression, reduces stress and even "cure" cancer! There are groups now days that actually teach you how to laugh! Who of us hasn't had the uncontrollable urge to laugh during a serious moment like a funeral or during the vow at a wedding? Kids are often the catalyst for humor just by their innocence and the sheer horror their innocence inflicts on their parents. Case in point: my mom tells a story about the time when my two brothers got bored during a choir rehearsal at the church we went to. They wondered hither and fro until they found the baptismal area which was empty....and behind the choir. One brother yelled to the other something about the giant bathtub and proceeded to run VERY loudly through it.
I leave with this---- life is full of stress. Some days it just feels like an entire lifetime of stress has landed on our door step all in one day. If life was easy, we'd all be born with roller skates instead of feet and rain drops would be skittles. How we deal with stress is more important than the stress itself. If we can find humor in that stress, we can put ourselves ahead of the game If we can't find the humor, we should make it. Strip down to our skivvies, stand in the middle of the kitchen and just laugh! Yeah it's weird but that's the humor of it all. Erma Bombeck said it best: "When humor goes, there goes civilization."
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