Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny
John Cleese: “Now I suggest to you that a group of us could be sitting around after dinner, discussing matters that were extremely serious like the education of our children, or our marriages, or the meaning of life, and we could be laughing, and that would not make what we were discussing one bit less serious. Solemnity, on the other hand, I hones... See more
visakan veerasamy • Article
Humor helps you see the familiar from a surprising new perspective.
It reminds you that there is no grand truth.
Any belief can be up-ended.
Every belief can be mocked.
Nobody knows anything.
See?
Laughing is subversive.
It reminds you that there is no grand truth.
Any belief can be up-ended.
Every belief can be mocked.
Nobody knows anything.
See?
Laughing is subversive.
Derek Sivers • Here’s how to live: Laugh at life. | Derek Sivers
I burst out laughing. The stress, the pressure, the confusion . . . It all feels more bearable when I’m with my family.
Elsie Silver • Reckless
The commonest occasion of laughter, especially collective laughter, is the distress, perplexity, or discomfiture of others.