Laughter IS the best medicine

We like to laugh and need to laugh. It takes fewer facial muscles to smile than frown. We love seeing babies laugh, chortle, wheeze and roll until tears squeeze from their eyes so we adults do almost anything to make that happen, including ridiculous antics.

For decades, The Reader’s Digest has published, Laughter is the best medicine. Proverbs 22 says, “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Dry bones get brittle and break. Laugh often to avoid that.

Merriam-Webster defines jokes as things people say that cause laughter, usually through funny punch lines.

Being funny means something is said in a clever and unexpected way.  A one-liner is a funny saying delivered in a single line.

Why are pirates called pirates? Because they arrgh.

When life gives you melons, you’re dyslexic

Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now.

My wife told me to stop impersonating a flamingo. I had to put my foot down.

There were a bunch of break-ins at the car park. That is wrong on so many levels.

Don’t iron the four-leaf clovers you find—you don’t want to press your luck.

What do you get when you cross four-leaf clovers with poison ivy? A rash of good luck.

Two guys stole a calendar. They got six months each. (Alex Del Bene in Readers’ Digest).

I can’t believe I got fired from the calendar factory. All I did was take a day off.

“A drug addict’s test came back negative. ‘My dealer has some explaining to do.’”

“I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.” – Steven Wright

“I have the world’s largest collection of seashells, you may have seen it; I keep it scattered on beaches all over.”

“I don’t want to be part of a club that would have me as a member.”—Groucho Marx

And one of my favorites, “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” Groucho Marx.

If you’re groaning, please forgive me. It’s good therapy. What is your favorite joke or riddle? What makes it funny to you? Please share an example and have a happy—maybe even hilarious—few weeks!