Laugh Out Loud Funny

Humor is one of the best ways to relieve stress and research proves that laughter plays a huge role in a persons mental and physical well being. I have even read that laughter or prolonged aerobic activity is similar to the effects of taking 20mg of prozac. Now THAT I am all for!

So whether you choose to climb up on that treadmill or um er...climb up on that someone, for that daily dose of feel good hormones, remember laughter is not a bad choice either.

Sitcoms are a great way to keep yourself laughing. I am currently hooked on reruns of Seinfeld. It sure doesn't hurt that it runs in syndication on almost every channel at various points in the day. I can almost always catch an episode of Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer in their most recent calamites. Watching characters spend 30 minutes waiting for a table at a chinese restraurant should not even be as funny as it is. Just thinking of the moment in the restaurant where George is waiting for an important phone call and the matre'd takes the call but yells out the wrong name numerous times. George says: "They called Cartright, no one answered so they hung up". Jerry responds: "But your not Cartwright" and in perfect George fashion he yells: "I KNOW I'M NOT CARTWRIGHT". I can almost hear the banter and even just thinking of the word Caaartrighttt and not Costanza makes me fall into a fit of giggles.

I love that the show about "nothing" introduces ironic situations that could occur to you or me in every day life, if everything was blown completely out of proportion that is. I always wish I could be one of the gang just hanging out in Jerry's apartment. As much as I love the characters of Jerry, Elaine and Kramer I really do think George is my favorite. Somehow a short, stocky, bald guy with no job and no money and as he evidently puts it, no prospects, just becomes so lovable. I can definitely relate to having moments in life where I just don't know where I am going or how to even figure out how to get there.

What's remarkable, is that Seinfeld has become such an icon in TV history that you can find people quoting it on a daily basis. T-Bone! or the phrase "these pretzels are making me thirsty" and being "master of your domain" will automatically flash you back to a Seinfeld moment and everyone in the room knows exactly what you are referring to without an explanation.

The last episode of the Series was the only downer I can think of. Instead of revisiting characters from the past I had heard of another idea that was pitched that didn't make the cut. The premis was the gang attending a party in which they all get drunk. Jerry and Elaine get so wasted they end up tying the knot and the show ends with neither of them remembering that they got hitched. Now that would have kept me laughing for a long, long time.