I Love Your Laugh


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The three years I spent in prison taught me to hate. Fork fights and throat punches were my pastimes. But that's how it goes when you've raised yourself on spite and envy. OK, that wasn't me. Not all comedians come from a dark place. . . . In this hilarious memoir, Jessica Holmes, a fan favourite on the hit shows The Holmes Show and Royal Canadian Air Farce, offers her witty observations on everything from her eclectic upbringing by a right-wing, Mormon father and a feminist mother, to her experiences as a missionary in Venezuela, to her own trial-and-error adventures in childrearing. Delving into personal experiences never discussed before, Holmes reveals her struggle to find laughter off-stage and spins comedy gold from her fumbles. The combination makes for an inspirational, heartwarming, and thoroughly side-splitting treat.




I Love to Laugh!


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Readers can push the button and hear giggling as a boy plays such games as "Pat-a-cake," "This Llittle Piggy," and "Peek-a-boo" with his mother and father. On board pages.




Crying Laughing


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A tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even . . . flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is . . . not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through. **A Junior Library Guild Selection**




The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh


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When life is funny, make some jokes about it. Billy Plimpton has a big dream: to become a famous comedian when he grows up. He already knows a lot of jokes, but thinks he has one big problem standing in his way: his stutter. At first, Billy thinks the best way to deal with this is to . . . never say a word. That way, the kids in his new school won’t hear him stammer. But soon he finds out this is NOT the best way to deal with things. (For one thing, it’s very hard to tell a joke without getting a word out.) As Billy makes his way toward the spotlight, a lot of funny things (and some less funny things) happen to him. In the end, the whole school will know -- If you think you can hold Billy Plimpton back, be warned: The joke will soon be on you!




Like Your Laugh


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Children's interactive script about joy experienced through unique laughs.




Live, Laugh, Love


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Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. Jarod Kintz Rejoice in the beauty of life, the power of laughter and the magic of love with this heart-warming collection of sweet sayings and charming quotes. Packed with happiness and inspiration, this little book is guaranteed to lift your spirits and put a spring in your step.




Keep Your Laugh On


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Could you us a good laugh? What about a good cry? Perhaps just a good cup of coffee or tea and a chuckle or two are on your wish list today. This lighthearted book promises to supply them all. These quick-witted and talented authors apply humor and wisdom to their stories. Bringing fresh new insight, they will guide you down avenues of life that prove the Lord can use our good days, our bad days and every day in-between to teach us some of lifes most valuable lessons. So get ready to be inspired to Keep Your Laugh On!




Inside Jokes


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Some things are funny -- jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed -- but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature -- aka natural selection -- cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.




Harness the Power of Your Laugh!


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Harness the Power of Your Laugh! Good news! You can laugh every day, no matter what is happening in the world. Even if you are very busy with life, you only need a few minutes a day, and you will discover that laughing is like a nourishing food. We need to actively and consciously laugh every day to give our bodies the best opportunity to grow strongly, happily, and healthily. The best news is that laughing is a deep-breathing technique. Much scientific research has been done over recent years on cell oxygenation and disease. Nobel Prize winner Dr Otto Warburg, president of the Institute of Cell Physiology, says: Deep breathing techniques increase oxygen to the cells and are the most important factors in living a disease-free and energetic life. Dr Sheldon Hendler, MD, medical researcher in cell oxygenation, says: Oxygenation through deep breathing boosts the immune system and can rid the body of chronic illnesses. Make a difference in your life and for those you love by practicing and sharing the playful Laughter Yoga exercises in this book. Discover the joy of laughing every day, and welcome to our global laughter family!




Laugh Your Way to Grace


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Laughter—the GPS System for the Soul Laughter was honored by the ancients as a spiritual healing tool and celebrated by the world's great religions. So why aren’t we laughing along the spiritual path today? What would happen if we did? In this personal and funny look at humor as a spiritual practice, Rev. Susan Sparks—an ex-lawyer turned comedian and Baptist minister—presents a convincing case that the power of humor radiates far beyond punch lines. Laughter can help you: Remove the fearful mask of a God who doesn’t laugh Debunk the myths that you don’t deserve joy Find perspective when faced with adversity Exercise forgiveness for yourself and others Reclaim play as a spiritual practice Heal—emotionally, physically, and spiritually Keep your faith when God is silent Live with elegance, beauty, and generosity of spirit Whatever your faith tradition—or if you have none at all—join this veteran of the punch line and the pulpit in reclaiming the forgotten humor legacy found in thousands of years of human spiritual history.