Laughter
At toastmasters last night the question for self introduction was "Are you watching the US Open?" In my head, I said, ohhh, good question and I leaned back to hear the accolades of the wonderful US Open. The first guy said, I don't watch golf. Ok, one guy who doesn't watch golf or tennis is confusing the current annual US Open Tennis Match with the US Open for golf. One guy, big deal. The next person said I don't watch golf either. I couldn't stand it and I blurted out--no, it's tennis. The president surprised by my outburst, said, yes, I'm asking about the US Tennis Open. The next person said I only watch football. One, by one each person said they don't watch tennis. How can this be? When it was my turn I updated all of them that Muller, a qualifier had just beat Davydenko and I know that they all had their tape machines set to catch the Roddick vs. Gonzales match set for this evening. I don't think any of them knew who Muller was or Davydenko, but they must recognize Roddick--he's a rock star. Ok, so he didn't go to the Olympics, but he made a really cute commercial several years ago. Surely they saw his commercial.
The topic of the evening was laughter. I was the jokemaster--talk about pressure. My joke was about the college kid who is explaining to a senior citizen that the senior's just can't understand the younger generation, since the younger generation grew up with so much wonderful technology and the senior says, you are right, we didn't grow up with all that wonderful technology so we invented it--what are you doing?
Anyway, our toastmaster challenged us to laugh heartily for two minutes--it was hilarious. Try it. Another speaker told us that there was a study done that if you tell a joke to about 15 to 20 people and you get a few chuckles, then if you tell the same joke to a little larger crowd, you'll get more laughs and if you tell the same joke to a very large audience, they will be rolling in the isles. We laugh more, when there are more of us laughing, hence laugh tracks. One gal said that a friend of hers wanted to start something called "ha, ha yoga", but found out that there are already "laugh clubs" where people go and laugh for exercise. I saw it in a movie where a comic goes to India to find out what make's Muslim's laugh and he went to a laugh meeting, but they were laughing at nothing, so he got confused and left.
One of our speakers is a really funny guy. He was a middle school teacher for 30 years and he has a thousand puns and silly jokes that must have made him a very popular teacher. Anyway, for his speech he used two characters to denote, "Little Johnny" and "the Teacher". The Teacher said, "Are you chewing gum?" and Little Johnny said, "no, I'm Little Johnny." That guy cracks me up.
As I left the meeting I realized that we really do laugh an awful lot at toastmasters.
[Roddick made short work of Gonzo--Nadal vs. Fish tonight after the battle of the sisters Williams. Oh what a night it will be.]
The topic of the evening was laughter. I was the jokemaster--talk about pressure. My joke was about the college kid who is explaining to a senior citizen that the senior's just can't understand the younger generation, since the younger generation grew up with so much wonderful technology and the senior says, you are right, we didn't grow up with all that wonderful technology so we invented it--what are you doing?
Anyway, our toastmaster challenged us to laugh heartily for two minutes--it was hilarious. Try it. Another speaker told us that there was a study done that if you tell a joke to about 15 to 20 people and you get a few chuckles, then if you tell the same joke to a little larger crowd, you'll get more laughs and if you tell the same joke to a very large audience, they will be rolling in the isles. We laugh more, when there are more of us laughing, hence laugh tracks. One gal said that a friend of hers wanted to start something called "ha, ha yoga", but found out that there are already "laugh clubs" where people go and laugh for exercise. I saw it in a movie where a comic goes to India to find out what make's Muslim's laugh and he went to a laugh meeting, but they were laughing at nothing, so he got confused and left.
One of our speakers is a really funny guy. He was a middle school teacher for 30 years and he has a thousand puns and silly jokes that must have made him a very popular teacher. Anyway, for his speech he used two characters to denote, "Little Johnny" and "the Teacher". The Teacher said, "Are you chewing gum?" and Little Johnny said, "no, I'm Little Johnny." That guy cracks me up.
As I left the meeting I realized that we really do laugh an awful lot at toastmasters.
[Roddick made short work of Gonzo--Nadal vs. Fish tonight after the battle of the sisters Williams. Oh what a night it will be.]
posted by KathrynVH @ 10:14 AM
1 Comments:
At September 5, 2008 at 9:43 AM,
Anonymous said…
Laughter is so good maybe they could even cure things with it. It could be a medicine, not the best medicine but how about third after pills and treatment. Wait, time is pretty good too. So is rest. Heat works on some things, so does cold.
Oh well, I’m sure laughter fits in there somewhere.
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