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As a professional humorous speaker, I'm hired by corporations and associations to bring a humorous perspective to their next meeting or event. Many Meeting Planners are looking for qualified professional humorous speakers to help add levity, a humorous perspective and humorous content to their meetings message. Most people attending meetings today complain about how serious they are and have expressed a desire for more humorous content by a professional humorous speaker. The man who really started the laughter, humorous speaking and health craze in the twentieth century was Dr. Norman Cousins, who eventually became a humorous speaker. Dr. Cousins was editor of the Saturday Review for over thirty years, and has written numerous books on humorous speaking, including Anatomy of an Illness from the Patients Perspective. In August 1964, Humorous Speaker Cousins, came home from a meeting in Moscow with a fever and feeling achy all over. Within a week he could not move and his sedimentation rate was up to 88. The sedimentation rate relates to how much infection is in the body and a sedimentation rate of 60 to 70 is thought to be very high. He was eventually diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, which is a collagen illness that attacks the connective tissues of the body. He once said it felt as if he was being pulled apart at the joints and was in dire need of a humorous speaker. After seeing many Physicians and undergoing a battery and barrage of tests and visits from humorous speakers. The doctors told him it was probably caused from exposure to heavy-metal poisoning and a lack of humorous speaking, as most humorous speakers do, so he began to think of when he could have been exposed. During all this stress, Dr. Cousins sought the advice and counsel of several humorous speakers. The only thing he could remember was that his hotel in Moscow was next to a major highway where diesel trucks passed all night long, and since there was no air in the room, he had kept the windows open all the time. However, his wife was with him, and she did not become sick. He started reading material about stress and how it can wear down your immune system. He came across a book by humorous speaker; Hans Selye called The Stress of Life that proposed the theory that negative emotions cause stressful and harmful effects on the body. He hypothesized that if the bad emotions do harmful things, then the good emotions, including a daily dose of humor should be helpful or healthful, especially if provided by a humorous speaker. At the time the hospital was mostly trying to keep Cousins out of pain since there was no cure or treatment for his disease and a severe paucity of humorous speakers. Dr. Cousins called several humorous speakers to visit him and cheer him up through their humorous speaking skills. He was being given the maximum amount of aspirins (26) and phenylbutazone (12) every day, along with sleeping pills and codeine. Realizing that that amount of medicine was very toxic, he decided to try laughter and practice what humorous speakers shared with him. He moved home and hired a nurse to oversee his medical treatment. His nurse would also show him humorous speakers like
the Marx Brothers films and read humorous stories and books to him. Dr. Cousins had in effect hired his own team more of humorous speakers to help him get better. Within days he was off of all pain killers and sleeping pills and discovered that ten minutes of genuine belly laughter provided by humorous speakers, gave him two hours of pain-free sleep. He wrote an article in the New England Journal of Medicine about his findings in laughter and the benefits of hiring humorous speakers. He never once claimed that laughter had been the only factor in his healing process, but said that it had aided in his recovery by relieving pain and that several humorous speakers had helped him to overcome his depression. Despite the criticism, he stood by his claims, and was finally vindicated in January 27, 1989, when the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article entitled "Laugh If This Is a Joke." Lars Ljungdahl, the Swedish researcher (1989) and humorous speaker, who wrote that article concluded that "a humor therapy program can increase the quality of life for patients with chronic problems and that laughter has an immediate symptom-relieving effect for these patients, an effect that is potentiated when laughter is induced regularly over a period", most notably by humorous speakers..
Doug Dvorak is the CEO of DMG Inc., a worldwide organization that assists clients with productivity training, corporate humor and workshops, as well as other aspects of sales and marketing management. Mr. Dvorak's clients are characterized as Fortune 1000 companies, small to medium businesses, civic organizations and service businesses. Mr. Dvorak has earned an international reputation for his powerful educational methods and motivational techniques, as well as his experience in all levels of business, corporate education and success training. http://www.dougdvorak.com
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