The Power of Humor Part 2

  Comedy without the Comedian

                                     Here the camera turns to the audience. As with the listener below, the brain on comedy takes the body and soul for a ride that is palpable, electric. 

                                                                                          Humor can bring out our best... 

Thinking

The Power of Humor

caring

Emotional contagion -- laughing not at but with.

Applied to comedy, it's the theory that we laugh not so much at the joke as with the feeling generated in a room filled with other laughing beings, the brain bones connected to the heart bones. In the video below, the first laugh pops in the brain ("just about enough"); the second -- after the joke's subject and object look at one another -- issues from the heart.

Video credit: I thank attendees at a recent show in Virginia for their assistance.

When fear becomes love a sound is made... laughter