On laughter | Anthony McCarten | TEDxMünchen
Translator: Nadine Hennig
Reviewer: Denise RQ Hello. It is said that you’re asked to come and give a TEDx talk twice in your career: once on the way up,
and once on the way down. (Laughter) And may I say, “It’s great to be back.” (Laughter) Laughter – that is our theme today. Laughter – I may not be able
to produce much of it, but will try to shine some light on it,
and ask the question: what is it, and what is its role in our lives
and in our society? I want to tell you four jokes today. That’s pretty much it. I’m going to tell you four jokes, and we will derive whatever lessons
we may from these four jokes. Before I tell you the first joke,
as we are in Munich, I’d like to conduct a little experiment. Some terrible things are said
about the German sense of humor specifically that you don’t have one. (Laughter) And I’d like to put
this horrible assumption to the test and do an experiment. So when I tell this first joke, I would ask that only
the German people here respond. (Laughter) To either laugh or not laugh,
as you see fit. But please, don’t force yourself
to laugh to skew the results. (Laughter) This is a scientific experiment,
it’s terribly serious. So here is the first joke. There is a man, he is dying
in his bed in his home (Laughter) and he smells, coming from the kitchen,
the most sublime smell. It’s the smell of his favorite
chocolate chip cookies. And with his last strength,
he gets out of bed, and he goes to the kitchen,
where his wife of 50 years, is cooking these beautiful
chocolate chip cookies. And they are on a plate of four of them,
just out of the oven. And with his last human strength, he reaches over
to take one of the biscuits, and his wife sees him, she rushes over,
she slaps his hand, and she says, “No, they are for the funeral.” (Laughter) Newsflash, “TEDx talks reveals finally
that the Germans have a sense of humor. (Laughter) So, now a statement,
here is a statement for you: those who lose the power to laugh,
lose the power to think. If you lose the power to laugh,
you lose the power to think. If I can put that another way, the smartest people I know
in the world are the funniest. The smarter they are, the funnier. And why should that be? For me, the answer is that seriousness
is not the correct response to the absurdity of life. The human comedy
that would create beings, such as we, who are sophisticated enough
to ask the huge questions, “Why are we here?”, “Who are we?”, but be really forever denied an answer
and left in a state of existential tension which we seek to relieve in various ways, and one of these, the most effective
for me is laughter. Two old couples
are walking down the street. Two women are walking
in front of the two men, and one of the men says to the other,
“What did you do last night?” And the second man says,
“Oh, I went to this restaurant. It was amazing. The food was fantastic,
and the prices were great. Absolutely super.” And the first one says,
“Wow, sounds great. What was the name of the restaurant?” And the second man says, “Oh! What’s the name
of that flower that smells great? It’s red, and on the stems,
there are little thorns.” And the first men says,
“Well, that would be the rose.” And the second man says, “Of course.” “Rose, what was the name
of that restaurant we went to last night?” (Laughter) (Applause) For me, that joke is as priceless as a painting
by Monet or a sonnet by Shakespeare. For me, laughter has always been
extremely important. Seriousness – I hope
you will agree with this statement – seriousness is dangerous. Seriousness is dangerous, not just for ourselves
but also in society. And why should that be? I think, it’s partly that seriousness, the forces of seriousness,
of humorlessness, would limit us to narrow thinking, rigid ideology, cruelty, and a tunnel vision whereas humor obliges us
to have an open mind. It obliges empathy and forgiveness. Humor always forgives. The relationship
between humor and seriousness has long been understood. Winston Churchill,
a famous wit, once said, “You cannot hope to understand
the most serious things in life, unless you understand the most humorous.” The American Civil Rights activist
Clarence Darrow wrote, “If you lose the power to laugh,
you lose the power to think.” If you lose the power to laugh,
you lose the power to think. These two men were dealing
with politics at a very, very high level, and they knew very well that sometimes only humor can break down entrenched positions and rigid ideology. There was a flight, a Lufthansa flight
from Munich to New York. The flight was going very well. It was almost in New York, and then there was
a tremendous explosion from the right wing of the aircraft, and the captain’s voice
came over the speaker, and he said, (with German accent)
“Ladies and gentlemen, please, we have a problem
with the number three engine on the right wing of the aircraft. Please do not panic, we have
four engines on this aircraft. We have… (explosion sound) We also now have a problem
with the number one engine, but we have two very good…
(explosion sound) We have one engine, but I assure you the pilot is most capable of flying
the aircraft with only… (explosion sound) Ladies and gentlemen, we’re about to make
a landing on the water. (Laughter) I will speak to you from the water.
Please do not panic.” The Lufthansa pilot, of course,
makes a spectacular landing on the water. And then, the captain’s voice comes over
the speaker again, and he says, “Thank you, ladies and gentlemen,
for following my instructions. Now, please listen very, very carefully
to what I am about to say. All those of you who can swim, please line up
on the right wing of the aircraft. All those of you who cannot swim,
line up on the left wing of the aircraft, and I will speak to you from the water.” So they do everything he says, and they see finally
a little captain in a rubber boat rowing to the front of the aircraft, and he has a loudspeaker, and he says, “Ladies and gentlemen, again, I congratulate you
for following my instructions. Now please listen carefully
to what I am about to say. First, those of you
on the right wing of the aircraft, New York is this way. (Laughter) It is only three nautical miles,
the water is warm, and the current is with you. Good luck. Those of you
on the left wing of the aircraft, ‘Thank you for flying Lufthansa.'” (Laughter) (Applause) Why do we laugh? Why did you just laugh? Why do any of us laugh? Well, this question
has perplexed philosophers for thousands of years. And the best of them: Plato, Freud, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche. Here is what they came up with. They said that the reason we laugh is our ancient response
to the passing of animal danger. That’s the best they could come up with, that we laugh because it’s our ancient response
to the passing of animal danger, from which I think, people,
we could conclude that asking a philosopher to define comedy is like asking Stevie Wonder
to help you find your car keys. (Laughter) Just as you cannot have
a mathematical proof that isn’t built from pure mathematics, you cannot have a theory
of laughter that isn’t funny. So let’s try again. Let’s try here today to define comedy, better than Plato,
and Nietzsche, and Freud. I’ve looked around
for the oldest joke I could find, and I found one. It’s 1,000 years old. At the end of the first millennium,
this was knocking them dead (Laughter) and it goes like this. There was a funeral in a church. You have to imagine a medieval church, and everyone is weeping
in great tears, except one man. And the priest notices
that one man isn’t crying, and at the end of the service, the priest goes up
to the one man, and he says, “Did you know the dead man?” The men says, “Yes, I did.” And he said, “Well,
why aren’t you crying?” And he said, “Well, I would have,
but I don’t belong to this parish.” You’ll have to accept
that 1,000 years ago that was a killer. (Laughter) But it does teach us
something interesting about comedy: that to understand a joke,
you have to belong to the parish. Let me tell you what I mean. To understand a joke,
you have to belong to the parish, that community of understanding, and if you feel you belong to that community of understanding,
of getting the joke, then you will laugh at almost anything that reinforces your sense
of belonging to that group. Jokes connect us, they embrace us. And in sheer gratitude for that embrace, our mouths open, our chests fill with air, and our bodies do something
utterly extraordinary: they make a noise
that no other creature has, or will ever make in the entire history
of the universe — laughter. And what a privilege it is to be able
to make someone else laugh. So when you make someone else laugh,
you’re not just being funny. It’s not a trivial thing. You are inducers of hope, embracers of strangers, eradicators of hopelessness, you are physicians, and peacemakers. I’d like to read you a little statement. It’s a quote, and I wrote it down. It goes like this, “Comedy is the clash of one point of view colliding with another,
one sensibility with another, high with low, East with West, light with dark, old with the young; a collision of two worldviews
of two civilizations; and like two pieces of flint
being struck together, a life-saving spark is given off and with this spark,
you can light a fire.” I thought that was a wonderful quote.
I wrote it this morning. (Laughter) I’d like to give you an example of how humor can be used to break down rigid thinking and entrenched positions. In 1995, during the Second Intifada, Palestinian Intifada, I was in London, and I went to see the great
Jewish comedian Jackie Mason. Terrific, very controversial
in some of his comments. He was doing his normal show, very funny, and then at one point he said,
he wanted to become very serious, and of course, if you know Jackie Mason, the audience became very anxious that Jackie would say one
of his very controversial things, and, in fact, he did. He said, “I want to speak about
the Palestinian question,” and you could feel the tension
in the audience rose tremendously. And he said – this is what he said. He said, “I believe
that Benjamin Netanyahu wants peace. I believe this. In fact, I think he would give back
the West Bank to the Palestinian people this very day, this very day; but he can’t, because it’s
already in his wife’s name.” (Laughter) And the laughter
in this primarily Jewish audience was so pronounced,
it went on for five minutes. It was hysterical. And in that five minutes,
you couldn’t help but feel that the possibility of peace
had been advanced in some way, that somehow, compromise
was just a little closer at hand, and that’s what laughter can do. If we can laugh together,
we can live together. You know what I think
the secret of life is? Some people would say, it’s knowledge, but for me we don’t seem to learn
very much in our human evolution. History is a wonderful teacher,
but we seem to be very poor students. For me, I think, it’s laughter. Laughter, the husband of truth,
the arch enemy of dogma, transmuting the dross
of existence into gold. Someone asked me recently, “How do you want to die?
Do you have any ideas?” And I thought for a moment, and I said, “I think
I want to die like my father did, quietly, in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.” (Laughter) The final line of any joke
is called the punchline in English, and in German, in “Deutsch”
I believe, it’s “die Poente.” It’s the line where the miracle happens; the line where we’re surprised
by something that is revealed, and from that surprise is released joy. And my parting wish for you all here today is that your own life be a joke. (Laughter) Yes, I want all your lives to be a joke, and that they have punchlines; that they have (German) “die Poente,” as good as “No, they are for the funeral,” “It’s already in his wife’s name,” “Not screaming like his passengers,” and “Thank you for flying Lufthansa.” Stay funny. Keep laughing. Peace. (Applause)
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Stepping out on a limb here … anybody ever met a funny fundamentalist?
I'm sure some animals do laugh
Brilliant, Anthony! This talk is definitely one of the greats!! Unexpectedly wonderful!
This is really good. Loved listening to this talk
"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think"
fantastic
not funny but his statements makes pure sense.
Proverbs 17:22…"a merry heart doeth good like a medicine…"
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I'm wondering if I didn't fully understand the second joke because I didn't think it was very funny or particularly sophisticated. Like half a joke, that you crack during the setup of a bigger, funnier joke.
l think laughter is provoked ,an instictive interpretation of equal to or greater than .
that was hilarious… 😂😂
This Anthony guy is amazing! I always knew that people who were able to laugh at themselves and make other people laugh, were wise but I just never knew the reason. Couldn't put it into words. Didn't know the reason/logic behind it. Now I know that my life's is a joke and so is yours. And your momma's. And the president's. Especially his. You'd think that targeting jokes towards one person is cruel. But no it isn't. And I'm not even trying to be funny but Trump and he's shouting in the White House as a president makes me laugh. It's like a big baby with a wig on top of his head went to the White House and became a president. 😀
Rose???….ha..ha..ha… Loved all your jokes… I watch this video at least once a day.
Thank you for sharing. You are hilarious!!!
I like it when an intelligent dude's life is a 'joke'
….. Some …. Sage ….. Advice! …..
Great talk!… Abdul-Baha, a figure in the Baha'i Faith falsely imprisoned for religious beliefs said that… 'It is good to laugh. Laughter is a spiritual relaxation. When they were in prison, He said, and under the utmost deprivation and difficulties, each of them at the close of the day would relate the most ludicrous event which had happened. Sometimes it was a little difficult to find one but always they would laugh until the tears would run down their cheeks. Happiness, He said, is never dependent upon material surroundings, otherwise how sad those years would have been…'
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Can't help watching it again and again. Brilliant, amazing.
I base it more on lack of understanding that makes us laugh, than danger. If I laugh at something it indicates I'm not understanding entirely and its my body relaying a defence mechanism to give me an impression to figure out the misunderstanding. Great speech. What do you call a mathematics professor with alsheimers? A server. Enjoy the pie.
i want to die like my father!!!! wooot wooot!!!
Beautiful! Really!!! You said a lot of great and wonderful things that live by. Thank You!
I've been in a living nightmare for more than two years.
My broken heart, crushed spirit and painful soul are excruciating.
I've not laughed and barely smiled all this time.
I want to laugh again, spontaneously and genuinely.
Laughter is healing.
My 13 year old said “Our bodies wants positivity! Therefore, when faced with negativity our body turns negative stuff into positive stuff!!! That is why we laugh.” Mia S.
well done. thank you
12:03 This guy is a complete faker. In fact, the next human being born will have the capability to laugh! This means that this man is actually an alien, because he doesn’t understand what “birth” is. (Not that I do myself)
Wow…. Superb…
I laugh the most when I'm in pain. It's how I got through the agony of barely being able to walk at times as a 19 year old.
He is great!
This is gold : D
"It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation." “My home is the home of laughter and mirth" ~ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Baha'i Faith
Great sir
Laughter is the best medicine for cure and care
I am not so good in English,,,,,could anybody tell me please summary of this speech.😎😎😍🤩😂🤣😆😃
See ,I have a problem 😞I am not feeling to laugh for jocks 🤷♀
I agree with Anthony, laughing helps me cope with so many things in life from family issues to trying again in business. : )
Really good
"Humor obliges empathy and forgiveness"
WOW. For me, there's never been 5 words combined that make a bigger or more profound statement than that.
Absolutely enjoyed it!!
Hello. It is said that you're asked to come and give a TEDx talk twice in your career: once on the way up, and once on the way down. (Laughter) And may I say, "It's great to be back." (Laughter) Laughter – that is our theme today. Laughter – I may not be able to produce much of it, but will try to shine some light on it, and ask the question: what is it, and what is its role in our lives and in our society? I want to tell you four jokes today. That's pretty much it. I'm going to tell you four jokes, and we will derive whatever lessons we may from these four jokes. Before I tell you the first joke, as we are in Munich, I'd like to conduct a little experiment. Some terrible things are said about the German sense of humor specifically that you don't have one. (Laughter) And I'd like to put this horrible assumption to the test and do an experiment. So when I tell this first joke, I would ask that only the German people here respond. (Laughter) To either laugh or not laugh, as you see fit. But please, don't force yourself to laugh to skew the results. (Laughter) This is a scientific experiment, it's terribly serious. So here is the first joke. There is a man, he is dying in his bed in his home (Laughter) and he smells, coming from the kitchen, the most sublime smell. It's the smell of his favorite chocolate chip cookies. And with his last strength, he gets out of bed, and he goes to the kitchen, where his wife of 50 years, is cooking these beautiful chocolate chip cookies. And they are on a plate of four of them, just out of the oven. And with his last human strength, he reaches over to take one of the biscuits, and his wife sees him, she rushes over, she slaps his hand, and she says, "No, they are for the funeral."
Laughter) Newsflash, "TEDx talks reveals finally that the Germans have a sense of humor. (Laughter) So, now a statement, here is a statement for you: those who lose the power to laugh, lose the power to think. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. If I can put that another way, the smartest people I know in the world are the funniest. The smarter they are, the funnier. And why should that be? For me, the answer is that seriousness is not the correct response to the absurdity of life. The human comedy that would create beings, such as we, who are sophisticated enough to ask the huge questions, "Why are we here?", "Who are we?", but be really forever denied an answer and left in a state of existential tension which we seek to relieve in various ways, and one of these, the most effective for me is laughter. Two old couples are walking down the street. Two women are walking in front of the two men, and one of the men says to the other, "What did you do last night?" And the second man says, "Oh, I went to this restaurant. It was amazing. The food was fantastic, and the prices were great. Absolutely super." And the first one says, "Wow, sounds great. What was the name of the restaurant?" And the second man says, "Oh! What's the name of that flower that smells great? It's red, and on the stems, there are little thorns." And the first men says, "Well, that would be the rose." And the second man says, "Of course." "Rose, what was the name of that restaurant we went to last night?" (Laughter) (Applause) For me, that joke is as priceless as a painting by Monet or a sonnet by Shakespeare. For me, laughter has always been extremely important. Seriousness – I hope you will agree with this statement – seriousness is dangerous. Seriousness is dangerous, not just for ourselves but also in society. And why should that be? I think, it's partly that seriousness, the forces of seriousness, of humorlessness, would limit us to narrow thinking, rigid ideology, cruelty, and a tunnel vision whereas humor obliges us to have an open mind. It obliges empathy and forgiveness. Humor always forgives. The relationship between humor and seriousness has long been understood. Winston Churchill, a famous wit, once said, "You cannot hope to understand the most serious things in life, unless you understand the most humorous." The American Civil Rights activist Clarence Darrow wrote, "If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think." If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. These two men were dealing with politics at a very, very high level, and they knew very well that sometimes only humor can break down entrenched positions and rigid ideology. There was a flight, a Lufthansa flight from Munich to New York. The flight was going very well. It was almost in New York, and then there was a tremendous explosion from the right wing of the aircraft, and the captain's voice came over the speaker, and he said, (with German accent) "Ladies and gentlemen, please, we have a problem with the number three engine on the right wing of the aircraft. Please do not panic, we have four engines on this aircraft. We have… (explosion sound) We also now have a problem with the number one engine, but we have two very good… (explosion sound) We have one engine, but I assure you the pilot is most capable of flying the aircraft with only… (explosion sound) Ladies and gentlemen, we're about to make a landing on the water. (Laughter) I will speak to you from the water. Please do not panic."
The Lufthansa pilot, of course, makes a spectacular landing on the water. And then, the captain's voice comes over the speaker again, and he says, "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for following my instructions. Now, please listen very, very carefully to what I am about to say. All those of you who can swim, please line up on the right wing of the aircraft. All those of you who cannot swim, line up on the left wing of the aircraft, and I will speak to you from the water." So they do everything he says, and they see finally a little captain in a rubber boat rowing to the front of the aircraft, and he has a loudspeaker, and he says, "Ladies and gentlemen, again, I congratulate you for following my instructions. Now please listen carefully to what I am about to say. First, those of you on the right wing of the aircraft, New York is this way. (Laughter) It is only three nautical miles, the water is warm, and the current is with you. Good luck. Those of you on the left wing of the aircraft, 'Thank you for flying Lufthansa.'" (Laughter) (Applause) Why do we laugh? Why did you just laugh? Why do any of us laugh? Well, this question has perplexed philosophers for thousands of years. And the best of them: Plato, Freud, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche. Here is what they came up with. They said that the reason we laugh is our ancient response to the passing of animal danger. That's the best they could come up with, that we laugh because it's our ancient response to the passing of animal danger, from which I think, people, we could conclude that asking a philosopher to define comedy is like asking Stevie Wonder to help you find your car keys. (Laughter) Just as you cannot have a mathematical proof that isn't built from pure mathematics, you cannot have a theory of laughter that isn't funny. So let's try again. Let's try here today to define comedy, better than Plato, and Nietzsche, and Freud. I've looked around for the oldest joke I could find, and I found one. It's 1,000 years old. At the end of the first millennium, this was knocking them dead (Laughter) and it goes like this. There was a funeral in a church. You have to imagine a medieval church, and everyone is weeping in great tears, except one man. And the priest notices that one man isn't crying, and at the end of the service, the priest goes up to the one man, and he says, "Did you know the dead man?" The men says, "Yes, I did." And he said, "Well, why aren't you crying?" And he said, "Well, I would have, but I don't belong to this parish." You'll have to accept that 1,000 years ago that was a killer. (Laughter) But it does teach us something interesting about comedy: that to understand a joke, you have to belong to the parish. Let me tell you what I mean. To understand a joke, you have to belong to the parish, that community of understanding, and if you feel you belong to that community of understanding, of getting the joke, then you will laugh at almost anything that reinforces your sense of belonging to that group. Jokes connect us, they embrace us. And in sheer gratitude for that embrace, our mouths open, our chests fill with air, and our bodies do something utterly extraordinary: they make a noise that no other creature has, or will ever make in the entire history of the universe — laughter. And what a privilege it is to be able to make someone else laugh. So when you make someone else laugh, you're not just being funny. It's not a trivial thing. You are inducers of hope, embracers of strangers, eradicators of hopelessness, you are physicians, and peacemakers. I'd like to read you a little statement. It's a quote, and I wrote it down. It goes like this, "Comedy is the clash of one point of view colliding with another, one sensibility with another, high with low, East with West, light with dark, old with the young; a collision of two worldviews of two civilizations; and like two pieces of flint being struck together, a life-saving spark is given off and with this spark, you can light a fire." I thought that was a wonderful quote. I wrote it this morning. (Laughter) I'd like to give you an example of how humor can be used to break down rigid thinking and entrenched positions. In 1995, during the Second Intifada, Palestinian Intifada, I was in London, and I went to see the great Jewish comedian Jackie Mason. Terrific, very controversial in some of his comments. He was doing his normal show, very funny, and then at one point he said, he wanted to become very serious, and of course, if you know Jackie Mason, the audience became very anxious that Jackie would say one of his very controversial things, and, in fact, he did. He said, "I want to speak about the Palestinian question," and you could feel the tension in the audience rose tremendously. And he said – this is what he said. He said, "I believe that Benjamin Netanyahu wants peace. I believe this. In fact, I think he would give back the West Bank to the Palestinian people this very day, this very day; but he can't, because it's already in his wife's name." (Laughter) And the laughter in this primarily Jewish audience was so pronounced, it went on for five minutes. It was hysterical. And in that five minutes, you couldn't help but feel that the possibility of peace had been advanced in some way, that somehow, compromise was just a little closer at hand, and that's what laughter can do. If we can laugh together, we can live together. You know what I think the secret of life is? Some people would say, it's knowledge, but for me we don't seem to learn very much in our human evolution. History is a wonderful teacher, but we seem to be very poor students. For me, I think, it's laughter. Laughter, the husband of truth, the arch enemy of dogma, transmuting the dross of existence into gold. Someone asked me recently, "How do you want to die? Do you have any ideas?" And I thought for a moment, and I said, "I think I want to die like my father did, quietly, in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers." (Laughter) The final line of any joke is called the punchline in English, and in German, in "Deutsch" I believe, it's "die Poente." It's the line where the miracle happens; the line where we're surprised by something that is revealed, and from that surprise is released joy. And my parting wish for you all here today is that your own life be a joke. (Laughter) Yes, I want all your lives to be a joke, and that they have punchlines; that they have (German) "die Poente," as good as "No, they are for the funeral," "It's already in his wife's name," "Not screaming like his passengers," and "Thank you for flying Lufthansa." Stay funny. Keep laughing. Peace. (Applause)
Terrific talk. Full of wisdom about the healing powers of humor…
Love this
The horrible PC people would today say how dare you laugh about people who cannot swam. PC people have no sense of humour.
“You will laugh at anything which reinforces your sense of belonging to that group.”
The problem with this is that this is part of how bullies work, and ostracism works, and parental alienation works. These are all forms of emotional abuse. So if you are on the other side of that laughter… It is the opposite of you being in the group. You are condemned, shunned, alienated, bullied.
When you are laughing, in your group, be aware of the effects on those outside the group who may be in earshot.
Great talk. It made my day, thank you! 🙂
I suppose someone could say that the greatest oppression would be to take away someone's ability to experience joy and that joy including an ability to experience humor… we have come to a time when too many of us are experiencing this sort of oppression. Some of it is self imposed… some of it is actual imposed on others externally… complicated world. I appreciate humor and I am mostly free to experience it… I want others to be free enough to experience it…
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だめだ、私は笑う力を失っている…
レストランの名前どころか、そもそも奥さんの名前から思い出せなかったってオチね
Good laughter gets me thru hard times, Thank you.
Always makes me laugh
Sir you look like our Indian actor like ritik roshan 😁 I love your speech 😊
Laughter makes one feel younger…..
The best TED talk I’ve listen to yet and I’ve listened to a lot on a lot of different subjects.
Okay, do you have that also, that when you want to tell a joke you forget the story? That name of that red flower, what was it?
"Seriousness is dangerous." I've always thought that!
Of all the creatures in this world humans see to have a lot to laugh about.
4:59 he's very serious when he's talking about seriousness as dangerous
Thanks Anthony Mcarten sincerely enjoyed your serious talk and message but most importantly you made me laugh! And that resonates with a real life family situation in Auckland NZ, which made me write a song which has a couple of lines "When laughter had it's place, In most things we have done" Cheers and thanks again!! Gerard Pereira
Nice jeans. Another thing that necessary in life
Loved it. Amazing. Thank you.
“Humour makes life easier “
By Me
I wrote this quote just today morning!
One of the best video I ever saw on YouTube.
This was just awesome
Primates laugh, comedy is TRAGEDY PLUS TIME.