What Makes You Laugh Contest
The benefits of a good laugh are endless: it improves your attitude; decreases stress and depression; it is a workout for your abdominal muscles; it increases oxygen to the brain and your muscles; it strengths your immune system; and laughter makes you more attractive.
Here is an interesting fact for you: On average, adults laugh 15 times a day. Children on the other hand, laugh over 400 times a day!!
So, what makes you laugh? That is what we want to know for this month’s blog contest.
Enter by simply entering your name and email below with either: a link to a video, a joke, a picture, a story, part of a movie or a situation that cracks you up. We are all professionals, so keep it clean or your entry will be deleted.
If you post a link, please write a sentence or two about the video or picture you want to share.
Winners will be based on how much I and members of the Freedom Team engage in belly laughter.
Prizes:
Grand Prize – “Expect Success” Book, Freedom Personal Development Water Bottle and Calculator
Second Place – Freedom Personal Development Water Bottle and Calculator
Third Place – Freedom Personal Development Calculator
All winners will also get a “Be Free” Sticker and a Personal Development Blue Light-up Pen!
The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Winners will be emailed and announced on our blog Wednesday, July 1, 2009.
Be Free!
Roger Seip
Instructor and a funny guy 
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Comment by Joe Johnston — June 4, 2009 @ 8:48 am
What makes me laugh is getting your emails and thinking what comes to mind about memory training. When I think of Tom Weber I think Turkey Grill…never fails…great way to remember names. I’ve not implemented a lot of what I learned (have not practiced) but am thankful for the exposure I received. Hope all is well on the Freedom Personal Development Front! Cheers to a great June!
gayle
Comment by Gayle Zientek — June 4, 2009 @ 8:54 am
A baby bites his brother’s finger after he puts it in his mouth. The funny part is when the little baby start laughing – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM
Comment by KTB — June 4, 2009 @ 8:58 am
The thing that mkes me laugh the most, is litenig to my children when thy are playing or watching a movie and they start to giggle. Nothig can beat the sound of a childs laughter- even if it’s not mine..
Comment by Kimberly — June 4, 2009 @ 9:03 am
I love love love this You Tube video for two reasons:
1) Who doesn’t love pet videos
2) I always wanted my dog to speak to me… It turns out it IS possible!
Enjoy!
Tara Cheney
Comment by Tara Cheney — June 4, 2009 @ 9:04 am
Hey Kimberly – here are some great videos of baby laughing and laughing and laughing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3_SZjiLEaE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG5rQ3D_Zrw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL-W8WpVCpo
Comment by Katie Brandt — June 4, 2009 @ 9:13 am
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/76b256a028/shake-and-bake-from-talladeganightsfan
(about a minute 13 seconds into this clip) I crack up when Will Ferrell & Sacha Baron Cohen get so close and then do the nose wiggle. And I laugh harder when I notice that the wife (blonde) behind Farrell laughs in the scene, b/c it makes me think of how fun/funny it would be to just be around Ferrell and Cohen.
Another that makes me laugh every time also involves Ferrell
http://www.funnyhub.com/videos/pages/snl-more-cowbell.html
~ MORE COWBELL! Again, I crack up when Jimmy Fallon (on the drums) starts laughing in the scene, it just makes it funnier!
Another SNL skit
http://www.hulu.com/watch/19272/saturday-night-live-two-a-holes-buying-a-christmas-tree
~ they are so ridiculous!
And more: Andy Sanberg, Tina Fey, Amy Pohler, David Spade, Adam Sandler, SNL commercial parodies, SNL Weekend Update, Gilllyyy, Penelope, the word “tactics”, The Verizon phone commercial where the girl gets a pony that bites, Dane Cook, The Office, Stewie (Family Guy), Roger Seip, AJ
…I like to laugh!
Comment by Nickole — June 4, 2009 @ 9:24 am
Besides real estate agents talking about how much the economy is improving and home sales are beginning to increase, the thing that makes me laugh most is my 22-month-old grandson, Austin. He talks most of the time now, much of which I don’t understand, but I laugh at the way that he thinks he is hiding from me when I can’t see his eyes. Even funnier, is the way he bangs on the piano and sings his ABC’s in his loudest voice. When he turns off the tv while his big, gruff grandfather is in the middle of some ball game or car race, I have to hide my laugh, but that is probably the funniest thing he does. I highly recommend grandchildren to anyone who needs a good belly laugh!
Brenda Jordan, ABR, CRS, Broker, Realtor
Allen Tate Realtors
704-450-3076
Comment by Brenda Jordan — June 4, 2009 @ 9:26 am
When I can’t swear and I have to release some other way so I always say laugh about it
and it won’t seem so bad.
Comment by Michelle Brown — June 4, 2009 @ 9:28 am
What makes me laugh?
To hear a child laugh. Nothing is more beautiful than to see and hear a child laugh.
Pam
Comment by Pam Hall — June 4, 2009 @ 9:33 am
In order to get my laughter fix daily I watch my favorite sitcom (Frazier) while I’m preparing dinner. It’s a half hour of laughs.
Comment by Micki Kann — June 4, 2009 @ 9:50 am
Monkeys crack me up – they are a wonderful example of how not to take yourself too seriously.
I found this video of a monkey taunting two tiger cubs super funny…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AZn5nWIj_g
Comment by eric — June 4, 2009 @ 9:51 am
This makes me laugh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xaS_m5pFdA
And this makes me laugh, too. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/139758/most_outrageous_moments_on_the_news/
And this one I play over and over and over again – conservationist saving a gazelle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRpwsFn5wnQ
Comment by MaryEllen Shown — June 4, 2009 @ 10:06 am
AND COMMENT #1 MADE ME LAUGH! HAHAHAHA! I appreciate Joe Johnston!
Comment by MaryEllen Shown — June 4, 2009 @ 10:09 am
This is another one of those surprise acts, my friends and I laughed until we cried.
Yes, we need a good laugh at least once a day…. Hope you enjoy!
Comment by Martha Denman — June 4, 2009 @ 10:20 am
What makes me laugh? Being a laughter yoga speaker for trade associations and corporate meetings. I get everyone laughing – and it boosts their morale and productivity and teams…..
Comment by Rick - "Chicago's Laughter Doctor" — June 4, 2009 @ 10:58 am
This SNL skit, especially when the girl keeps saying “the WHA?” as her boyfriend answers “myrhh.”
http://www.hulu.com/watch/19272/saturday-night-live-two-a-holes-buying-a-christmas-tree
Comment by Jodi B — June 4, 2009 @ 11:18 am
A young man enters the monestary, and meets with the head monk. He takes a vow that he can only speak two words every ten years.
After the first ten years, he meets with the head monk . . . “Bad food” were his chosen two words. The head monk marks the file.
After twenty years, he meets with the head monk again . . . “Hard bed” were his two words. Again, the head monk marks the file.
After thirty years, he meets with the head monk again, and says “I quit”.
The head monk sat back and said, “Well, it doesn’t surprise me . . . all you’ve done is complain ever since you’ve been here”.
HA! HA! HA!
Let’s not complain, lest we lose our sight of our many blessings.
Comment by Todd W. Swanson — June 4, 2009 @ 11:31 am
These are great! I think this might be my favorite contest we’ve ever done. I’ll throw in my own entry- check out Abe Lincoln’s favorite sport at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX-yxkPQT60
This 30 second video has just been killing me for months. Enjoy!
Comment by Roger Seip — June 4, 2009 @ 11:49 am
Hilarious 6 minutes of “The History of Dance”. Makes me laugh every time.
ENJOY!
Comment by Ron G. Bell — June 4, 2009 @ 12:39 pm
One of my favorites!
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m161/iluvdirt_2006/ATT00049.gif
Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably, Never regret anything that made you smile.
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance….
Comment by Anna Dovenmuehler — June 4, 2009 @ 2:04 pm
This is hard to describe but I laugh out loud when sitcoms and certain movies, use innocuous lines and/or facts and repeat them throughout a season or the life of the show. For example in the 70s/early 80’s the show Rhoda had a character Brenda (voice of Marge Simpson now I believe), who’s boyfriend was named Benny Goodwin, everytime he was introduced to someone the stranger would say “oh, I loved your father’s music”, to which he replied “I am Good-win not Goodman.” Or when the story line on Seinfeld that George always wanted to be a marine biologist, and sure enough he is walking on a beach, on a date, whom he told he was a marine biologist, which he is not, and a whale washed up onshore…
Don’t know if it translates but I love the consistency of when a show will hold on, for show after show, bringing up a ridiculous subject. I just lost it.
Comment by Tim Cannata — June 4, 2009 @ 2:14 pm
When I was prego I laughed super hard and very often at stupid stuff I would do/say. My husband was telling me a story and it involved a friend who was in London (WI). I of course said, “What! What was he doing in London, France?” A couple things wrong with that as you can see. Then I was laughing so hard at myself that my prego belly was jiggling like Santa, which made me laugh even harder. I then thought I was causing stress to the baby so tried my hardest to stop.
Comment by Bobbi Schmitt — June 4, 2009 @ 2:43 pm
The ridiculousness of how life plays out.
Comment by Dishan Rajasingham — June 4, 2009 @ 4:06 pm
Good wholesome fun.
Comment by Jason Mackrill — June 4, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
This is a call from an 88-year-old woman named Gladys to Ellen on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. It never fails to double me over!
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/ellen-gladys-hardy-p1.php
Comment by Diana Schramer — June 4, 2009 @ 5:23 pm
This email from one of my best (and most intelligent friends):
So I am on another medication and one side effect is “mental fogginess”.
I took the 1st one on Monday morning at my desk. Shortly after, I spent a good 5 minutes trying to figure out the state abbreviation for Atlanta. I was like AT… that doesn’t look right….AL….I think that’s Alabama…and I was seriously so confused. Finally it came to me that Atlanta is not a state!!!
So yesterday, I laid the pill on my desk and just gave it dirty looks for a couple hours and soon after I took it a co-worker came into the office. Pretty uneventful, but today when he called, he told me I looked really “confused” yesterday. Coincidence or a condition caused by the brain eating pill?
And now today, I took that pill around 9:30 and just a bit ago when I was working, I came across info for someone that lives in Bethlehem PA, and I spent about a minute thinking how crazy it is that Jesus was born in Pennsylvania and wondering how I didn’t know that before and thinking that they must get a lot of visitors there during the holidays…
So this MUST be what they consider “mental fogginess”, right?
Comment by JB — June 4, 2009 @ 8:38 pm
Thinking about my son. He does a thousand funny things in a day, and he’s just so cute. Also, the other day my wife thought she hooked up our new Verizon High Speed Internet…it turns out that she was just connected to the neighbor’s wireless
Comment by David — June 5, 2009 @ 7:28 am
I live on a channel lot that gives me access to Lake Winnebago in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. This means that my neighbors and I have docks in our backyards from which we fish and park our boats in the summer. Late this past fall a new family moved in to the house next door to the west of my home. My wife and I briefly met this family and then the long, cold winter set in on us. As a result, no other real contact was made other than an occassional wave hello. One day this spring, a light that shined on to a flag on our dock had burned out. My wife agreed to purchase a replacement bulb the next day with the expectation that I would replace the bulb when I returned home that evening. Consequently, when I arrived home I grabbed the bulb in hand and started for the dock. As I walked toward my back yard I spotted my new neighbor on his dock, in the process of landing a nice fish. I ran to his dock, screaming “hey neighbor, looks like a nice one!”. The instant I said this my new neighbor turned to see me landing on his dock with my feet slipping out from underneath me. As I landed on my butt, my hand broke my fall and the bulb, my feet kicked over a 5 gallon bucket of fish that apparently my neighbor had been catching and I soiled my pants (not in the way you are thinking but never the less causing a mess). I was still wearing my work attire (I’m a banker by trade). My neighbor, with a terrified look on his face, asked, “are you all right?” I beleive I answered quickly with a meek voice, “I’m OK”. My hand was bleeding. I was a mess but mostly I was embarrassed and trying to retrieve his discarded fish as quickly as possible before they reentered the channel (He had caught approximately 20 Crappies). As it turned out, he (I) only lost 3 fish. What a way to become better acquainted with a new neighbor.
As I walked into my house with dirty pants, a hand that was bleeding and holding what was left of a light bulb, my wife looked at me in horror and stated, “all I asked you to do was to change a light bulb!” The next evening there was a new light bulb waiting for me in the garage with a note. The note said, carry this to the dock with two hands. Do not talk to any neighbors until the bulb is installed.
Comment by Ted Hoff — June 5, 2009 @ 12:58 pm
I have not laughed so hard in so long! My belly ached.
The cat is saying “Oh long John, Oh Long johnson. Oh Don piaaaaano. Oy oy oy oy….All the live long day!”
Listen closely, he’s chatting up a storm, and it sounds like he is singing a tune!
Comment by Melissa Wilson — June 5, 2009 @ 1:17 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=964uCtgsDoE
Comment by Melissa Wilson — June 5, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
These are two things that made me laugh just today.
http://loscuatroojos.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/formal-apology.jpg
http://ow.ly/agqk
Comment by Brandon — June 5, 2009 @ 2:27 pm
A father told his son that you are a son of a lion.
Son! who is the lion? Father retorted, I
Son in a affirmative way, oh yeah, that’s why my teacher was saying “you are a son of an animal”
Comment by Mohsin — June 5, 2009 @ 9:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63hz9SkJ9Fs
this video speaks for its self
Comment by bill pilson — June 6, 2009 @ 6:20 pm
Grasshopper walks into a bar.
The bartender greets him and says “did you know there’s a drink named after you?”
The grasshopper looking a bit puzzled replies “why would anybody name a drink Bob?”
Badabump …
Comment by Syl (like in window) ... — June 7, 2009 @ 1:56 pm
This made me really laugh the first time I read it. The photo of the cat was priceless, sort of a condescending sneer; not sure that will come through here.
WHAT PETS WRITE IN THEIR DIARIES
Excerpts from a Dog’s Diary……
8:00 am – Dog food! My favorite thing!
9:30 am – A car ride! My favorite thing!
9:40 am – A walk in the park! My favorite thing!
10:30 am – Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing!
12:00 pm – Lunch! My favorite thing!
1:00 pm – Played in the yard! My favorite thing!
3:00 pm – Wagged my tail! My favorite thing!
5:00 pm – Milk Bones! My favorite thing!
7:00 pm – Got to play ball! My favorite thing!
8:00 pm – Wow! Watched TV with the people! My favorite thing!
11:00 pm – Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!
Excerpts from a Cat’s Daily Diary….
Day 983 of my captivity…
My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other inmates and I are fed hash or some sort of dry nuggets.
Although I make my contempt for the rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat something in order to keep up my strength.
The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape. In an attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on the carpet.
Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet. I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly demonstrates what I am capable of. However, they merely made condescending comments about what a ‘good little hunter’ I am. Bastards.
There was some sort of assembly of their accomplices tonight. I was placed in solitary confinement for the duration of the event. However, I could hear the noises and smell the food. I overheard that my confinement was due to the power of ‘allergies.’ I must learn what this means and how to use it to my advantage.
Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try this again tomorrow — but at the top of the stairs.
I am convinced that the other prisoners here are flunkies and snitches. The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released – and seems to be more than willing to return. He is obviously retarded.
The bird has got to be an informant. I observe him communicating with the guards regularly. I am certain that he reports my every move… My captors have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated cell, so he is safe. For now…………….
Comment by Ronnis Oher — June 8, 2009 @ 5:01 pm
One of my all-time favorite jokes:
Three guys die on Christmas Eve. They wind up at the Pearly Gates and St. Peter says, “Since it’s Christmas Eve, I will let you in if you can give me something that has to do with Christmas.”
The first man reaches into his pocket and pulls out his keys. Jangling them, he says, “They’re bells!” “Okay,” St. Peter says, “you can come in.”
The second man checks his pockets and comes up with a Bic lighter that he flicks until a flame appears. He says, “It’s a candle!” St. Peter nods and says, “Fine, you may enter.
The third guy keeps going through his pockets over and over with a worried look on his face. Suddenly, he pulls out a pair of women’s panties and hands them to St. Peter.
St. Peter is shocked and asks, “What does this have to do with Christmas?”
Calmly, the man replies, “They’re Carol’s!”
Comment by Ronnis Oher — June 8, 2009 @ 5:06 pm
My favorite joke of all time – the Sad Story of Jose Cohen (I apologize to the young people who don’t know old song lyrics):
Jose had a rough start in life. He was born in Barcelona Spain, the illegitimate son of a nun in a local convent and the local Jewish rabbi. While growing up in the convent, he displayed musical talent. This led to him learning to play the flute. When he was old enough to leave the convent, Jose decided to follow his father’s heritage. He moved to Haifa, Israel and got a job playing the flute in the Haifa symphony. But, alas, he had a hard time making ends meet in his new country, so he also got a job driving a tractor in a kibbutz. And even worse, it turns out he was not really an honest person so he took to breaking-and-entering and looting homes in Haifa for additional cash.
Well, eventually the local law enforcement caught him in the act and put Jose in jail. As the local police were reviewing Jose’s file, they realized that they had caught a……..
Haifa-lootin’, flutin-tootin’, son-of-a-nun-from-Barcelona, part-time plow-boy Joe!
P.S. It took me 3 days to memorize this punch line so I could spit it out fast without stumbling.
Comment by Nancy — June 11, 2009 @ 2:33 pm
Some time ago there was a radio commercial that featured little children laughing. They just laughed and giggled and when I heard it I could not stop laughing. I never did know what the commercial was about, I just knew that when I heard the laughter, it caused me to laugh also.
Comment by Irene Koontz — June 11, 2009 @ 7:18 pm
Jack Benny and Mel Blanc – Si! Cy, Sue
or the same routine on the Tonight Show w/ Johnny Carson—> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beMIl_jzRN0
No PG, PG-13, or worse. Simply G-Rated Humor.
Comment by Richard Ewert — June 12, 2009 @ 9:43 am
Abbott and Costello’s Who’s on First
G-Rated humor!
Comment by R. C. Ewert — June 12, 2009 @ 9:50 am
The Horserace Video. It’s a riot. Starts with about 12 horses and they all have names from “marriage”, to “I don’t give a shit,” to “I’m outta here.”
Comment by Charlene Dellascio — June 17, 2009 @ 8:08 am
So happy to put out the good word about this to my audience. Check out the blog entry at http://healthmattershow.com/smile-laugh-happiness-health/.
Thanks for all your hard work. We all need to laugh and smile more!
Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show
Comment by Cinda Crawford — June 29, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Ev5HgGACg
“…organize the occasional cuddledown with a bad girl…” those etrade babies are so funny. check it, the outtakes
Comment by Carla Noble — June 30, 2009 @ 1:41 pm