Many
Americans have lost their sense of humor. We no longer laugh as we once did.
Candidates have been getting meaner and the jokes have been getting uglier.
However, we can make America laugh again. Not with insults to belittle one
another, but with kinder gentler jokes. In regard to
healthcare, laughter is not only the best medicine. It’s also our least costly
healthcare option. With my Haha Health Program, Comedy Practitioners will be
able to prescribe jokes that heal instead of expensive drugs. Consumers are
going to see tremendous savings!
I envision an
America with a thousand points of laughter, all over this great land of ours.
This laugh is your laugh, this laugh is my laugh. Life, liberty, and laughter -
these are the values that will bring our country back together. Ask not what
your country can do to make you laugh. Ask what you can do to make a fellow
American laugh. Give me laughter, or give me death! Further reading.
Pat Paulsen was a very entertaining comedian who gained some
fame delivering editorials on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Show in the 60s.
Beginning in 1968, he repeatedly ran for President of the United States as a
write-in candidate. He was on the ballot in New Hampshire several times.
Paulsen proved that political campaigns can be fun. His campaign slogan was , "If elected, I
will win."
Here are a few of his memorable lines.
"All the problems we face in the United States today can
be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American
Indian."
"A good many people feel that our present draft laws
are unjust. These people are called soldiers."
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself...and of
course the boogieman."
"I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am
middle-of-the-bird."
"If either the right wing or the left wing gained
control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles."
"I belong to the Straight Talking American Government
Party, or STAG Party for short."
Quote of the Week
“When comedy’s good, it’s jazz. The beats of it, the
looseness, the improvisational part, the music – the way you hit the
inflection, the high notes of a joke. It’s all melody to me.” Billy Crystal
Old Joke of the Week
A survey by salary.com has found that 64% of employees in
the United States visit websites that have nothing to do with their work daily.
Meanwhile, Facebook reports that browsing social media several times per day
actually makes workers more productive. DM
Business Humor Tip: Behind every tasteless joke is a poor
premise
Sometimes when people tell racist, sexist, or bigoted jokes
and nobody laughs, they try to shrug it off and say, “It was just a joke.”
Here’s a newsflash: Once that cat’s out of the bag, it’s hard to get it back.
Jokes are based on premises which are underlying ideas. For example, the
premise for jokes about dumb blondes is that blondes are stupid.
In business
relationships and in other relationships, when people hear a sexist or racist
joke, they may associate the teller of the joke with the mindset behind the premise.
And, just like that, the possibility of making a sale or establishing a
mutually beneficial business relationship can be gone.
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