Laughter

It's nightime in the Big City
Freshly fallen slow turns grey in the gutter
A waitress returns home, happy to take her shoes off "For the next hour we are going to examine the involuntary, unconscious activity known as laughter. We can consciously inhibit it, but we can't consciously produce it. It's impossible to laugh on command. You can fake an orgasm, but you can't fake laughter."

The Singers and Songs

  • Ernie Caffin
    Laughin' and Jokin'
    "The rockabilly artist performer with a mile wide country streak."
  • Clyde McPhatter
    Everyone's Laughing
  • The Louvin Brothers
    Don't Laugh
  • Big Joe Turner
    After my Laughter Came Tears
  • Jimmie Revard and His Oklahoma Playboys
    Lose your Blues and Laugh at Life
  • Mark Knopfler and Van Morrison
    The Last Laugh
    "You know these guys! I don't need to tell you about 'em."
  • Gene Chandler
    After the Laughter
    "One thing that's no laughing matter is pigeon-holing. Sometimes people just wanna think you can do one thing and they trap you there. They don't let you grow. Case in point Gene Chandler."
  • Sonny Bono
    Laugh At Me
  • The Gardenias
    I'm Laughing At You
    "I'm not actually laughing at you, that's just the name of the song."
  • Toots and the Maytals
    When I Laugh
  • Roy Brown - I've Got the Last Laugh Now
    Roy Brown - I've Got the Last Laugh Now
    “Vengeance is a dish best served cold.”
  • Chris Connor
    They All Laughed
  • The Spinners
    Living a Little, Laughing a Little

The Other People and Players

  • Tom Bell
  • Richard Pryor
  • Guglielmo Marconi
    Nobel Laureate for radio
  • Wilber and Orville Wright
  • Christopher Columbus
  • Claude Thornhill
  • Harry Einstein
    Parkyakarkus
  • Leslie Kahn
  • Laurel and Hardy
  • WC Fiields
  • Ben Stiller
  • Billy Wilder
  • Julie Holliday
  • Broderick Crawford
  • Myrna Loy
  • William Powell
  • The Marx Brothers
  • Joseph Hiller
  • David Letterman
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Cher
  • Art Rupp
  • Walter and Gracie Lance
    "Seriousness is an accident of time. In consists in putting too high a value on time. Eternity is a mere moment. Just long enough for a joke. ""Walter Lance was on his honeymoon with his wife Gracie. They kept hearing a woodpecker pecking on their roof. The difference between me and him is that it didn't drive him crazy."
  • Hermann Hesse
    "Seriousness is an accident of time. In consists in putting too high a value on time. Eternity is a mere moment. Just long enough for a joke. "
  • Leonardo DiVinci
  • Douglas Corrigan
    "Wrongway Corrigan"-Who flew to Ireland when he was supposed to be flying to California.
  • Henry Lord Beecher
  • Robert Deniro
  • Jeriko Rosario
  • Albert Einstein
    " 'Dancers are the athletes of God.' Who am I to argue with Albert Einstein?"
  • Billie Holiday
    "Back then, Songwriters used to write songs and let the artist interpret 'em. Nowadays, People just write songs for themselves. They put themselves in boxes, ticky-tacky boxes. We've lost out on the whole art form on interpretive singing."
  • Curtis Mayfield

The Other Songs and Albums

The Guests

The Movies and TV Shows

  • The Untouchables
  • Sybil
  • Grace Under Fire
  • Two And A Half men
  • A Day at the Races
  • Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
  • The Thin Man
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Bully
  • Born Yesterday
  • Some Like it Hot
  • Zoolander
    "I hear they're making a sequel"
  • Lucy and Desi Roast

The Plays and Musicals

The Places

  • Sedona, AZ
    "Hey! That rhymes!"
  • Northern Mississippi
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • San Antonio, TX
  • Oklahoma
  • Detroit, MI
  • Texas
  • Boston
  • Chicago

Record Labels

The Cartoons

Bob's Helpful Hints

  • Pigeon-holing
    "One thing that's no laughing matter is pigeon-holing. Sometimes people just wanna think you can do one thing and they trap you there. They don't let you grow. Case in point Gene Chandler."

Magazines


“Well, it ain’t easy to say goodbye either, but I gotta do it. I don’t want to go, but I got to go. Time is up. Let me just leave you with the words of one of the wisest men I know; Uncle Miltie. Milton Berle. He said, and he knows what he’s talking about, ‘Laughter is an instant vacation.’ You got it uncle Miltie. I’m gonna go have myself a vacation.”