Laughing Matters

BY JOEL GOODMAN

Jest for the Health of it... In the days before “Google” and “Zoom” became verbs, we at The HUMOR Project were delighted to receive 50,000 calls and letters a year from folks around the world interested in the positive, healthy power of humor. Since then, we have received thousands of emails containing humorous goodies that we include in our free

Laughing Matters e-mail newsletter (you can subscribe at

HumorProject.com).

The coronavirus pandemonium pandemic is not fun or funny… but if we are to keep our balance, perspective, lips, and her blushed face. As their eyes met, he gently removed her gloves...." I asked a 6-year-old if he understands why there is no school. He said, "Yes, because they are out of toilet paper." sanity, and humanity, we need humor now more than ever. We need to tickle stress before it tackles us. At Thanksgiving and as the ho-ho-holidays approach, we are thankful that we can give the gift of humor to ourselves… and to our family, friends, and co-workers. In order to transform serious stress of the omnipresent COVID-19 into laughing matters, we need to spread the fundemic of laughter. Here are 19 invitations to help you laugh in the face of COVID-19. Thanks to Barbara Glaser, Ken Ingram, and Eric Ruby, M.D., for passing along their comic vision vaccinations… that are safe AND effective right now!

I am not adding this year to my age, because I did not use it. Lockdown can only go 4 ways: You'll come out a monk, a hunk, a chunk or a drunk. Choose wisely! In 20 years when kids ask about the 2020 toilet paper shortage, I'm telling them we had to drag our butts across the lawn... in the snow... uphill... both ways! Pretty wild how we used to eat cake after someone had blown on it... ah, the good old days... Happy

If you use a rotary dial phone... you are in the high-risk group! Romance novels written during COVID-19 will be like... "And then she slowly slipped her mask down, revealing her warm red

Birthday! Corona precautions: I went to the bathroom at a restaurant. I washed my hands. Opened the door with my elbow. Raised the toilet seat with my foot. I switched on the water faucet with a tissue. Opened the bathroom door to leave with my elbow... and when I returned to my table, I realized... I forgot to pull up my pants!!!

Does anyone know if we can take showers yet or should we just keep washing our hands? Wearing a mask inside your home is now highly recommended. Not so much to prevent COVID-19, but to stop eating.

So, let me get this straight, there is no cure for a virus that can be killed by sanitizer and hand soap?

I miss the days when we were terrified of Romaine lettuce. Remember when you were little and all your underwear had the days of the week on them? Those would be helpful right now. Kinda starting to understand why pets try to run out of the house when the door opens. I'm having a bad hair year. I just did a big load The spread of COVID-19 is based of pajamas so I would on two factors: have enough clean (1) How dense the population is and work clothes for 2) How dense the population is.

the week. Is it too early to put up the Christmas tree yet? I have run

out of things to do.

Readers, feel free to email your comic visions to Joel@HumorProject.com so that we can share them in the future. Laughter is a healthy way to add years to your life… and life to your years!