I would like to open up a comedy club in weatherford. We don’t have many entertainment venues in weatherford. This would bring more business, more money to the city and more people. It would make weatherford an even more attractive place to live then in it already is. It would make it a more vibrant healthy and happy city.
Laughing has health benefits. It is one of the best things a person can do for themselves. It greatly improves health and mood. It boosts the immune system, relaxes the whole body, relieves stress and is good for the heart. (Laughter is the Best Medicine, Melinda Smith, M.A., and Jeanne Segal, Ph.D. April 2016. http://www.helpguide.org/articles/emotional-health/laughter-is-the-best-medicine.htm) It can be used as a therapeutic
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You have to learn how to use story telling descriptions, onomonopeias, Punctuation and pauses for effect. Being a good actor can greatly enhance your standup routine. One of the most important things I’ve personally learned from doing standup is that even if you are not excited while telling the same jokes you’ve told several times before you really have to pretend to be. You could use this to persuade students that decide to come to the club and try stand-up to take writing and theatre classes. Many famous comics went to college. You could emphasize this to get kids who otherwise wouldn’t care more interested in a higher …show more content…
I know that with your help and through hard work I can make this happen. This is how. I will go to the local bars and entertainment venues maybe even Craig’s music if you’re interested. I will Find the best venue and start doing shows and open mics as many days as allowed. When I find a location I will work to promote it through my current hosting gig and other open mics. I will advertise online through Facebook and twitter and pass out cards and fliers at stores and bars. I will put up flyers at the dorms and the college theater. I already have a foot in the door in the comedy world so it wouldn’t be hard to draw attention to the comedy club. I can get my friends who are comics to help promote it and do shows. I will take care of contacting managers and booking pros to come out and really draw publicity. The money from ticket sales will go to paying the comics and the bar and what’s left will go towards funding the venue. We could set up discounts on taxi rides for college students or have it free until their next ride, and then they’ll pay double. Well set up showcases and a percentage of ticket sales could go the college and some could go to the city. I will also setup a gofundme account for the future club. This itself will not only help to build funds for the future venue but will prove how many people want a comedy club in weatherford. Through the venue I find and maybe
Although modern science has allowed us to develop many complex medicines, laughter is still the strongest one available in the real world and in the book. Laughter proves to be a strong medicine in more ways than one and is completely free, allowing anyone to use it at anytime. It allows us to connect socially with people, it can be used as a way of overthrowing power, and it is good for your health. As Randle McMurphy showed in the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, laughter can lighten the mood in the darkest situations.
Laughing is resorted to in times where we need to laugh. It’s an escape from reality, its comfort, its fear. Laughing subdues any emotion that is too high strung in our system. It lets it vapor out in a melancholy form that helps us cope with problems that no one else can really understand and help us with. In One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest it allowed emotional tension escape from the patients and made nurse Ratched lose her ward.
Humor helps a person to dissolve stressful emotions, it’s a creative way to mentally solve a problem without being depress about the circumstances. Humor encourages a person to realize that there is a problem and something needs to be done about the situation, than a person is not in serious or stressful mode. Sharing your problems with other people helps to ease the pain and with humor added into the problem, helps a person to talk about their feelings and the person who is listening can relax too, because there is somewhat of sense of humor in the problem that does not put the listener in a discomfort position. With this humor mechanism a person can actually realize they have problem and that they have to solve it, instead being depress about the
This book is about so many things, it is hard to stay on one topic for any length of time. In order to focus on the laugh and laughing as a healing agent, I would like to look towards other influential writers and thinkers to tie together laughing and healing. First, let’s see what laughter is according to Meriam Webster: laughter- n. a cause of merriment. Using this simple definition, we can assume that laughter can come from any form of merriment or emotion like triumph, contempt, relief, and almost any other emotion there is. It is easy to picture in your head different underlying emotions in laughter; the sinister laughs of witches and ghosts, the insincere, fake laughs you hear after pointless, humorless attempts at jokes on the six o’clock news, to the silent laughs of mimes and clowns that fill the people around them with a happy feeling. These are all examples of what laughter is and how it is used. But why do we do it? What in nature created the laugh and made it so successful?
Sean O’Casey once said that, “Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.” Without laughing, man is not living fully. For the men in the novel, One Who Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, they are in a mental institution and are repressed by their head nurse until a new patient, McMurphy, comes in laughing an changing the way everything is ran, turning the insane sane. In the novel, laughter is a symbol of sanity and it helps a person grow stronger, so when the men laugh they grow more confident and obtain the ability to overcome the Nurses’ power.
The therapeutic use of humor can be loosely defined as any activities that use the positive emotional responses associated with humor, smiling and laughter to specifically benefit one or more clients’ social, emotional, physical, cognitive or wellness domains. Using humor, therapeutically, involves establishing specific desired outcomes for a client which are facilitated by the use of humor and related techniques. Dattilo & McKenney, (2011) define the therapeutic use of humor when “specialists and others use humor in practice, they play for it to lead to specific therapeutic outcomes”. They emphasize the use of evidence based practice and a goal oriented approach as essential in using humor for therapeutic purposes. Similar to other techniques used, Therapeutic Recreation is using humor to achieve client-established goals requires a systematic approach that harnesses the medicinal benefits of the involved and evoked behaviors.
The spectrum of therapeutic techniques available within the health care continuum is very complex and varied. From traditional medicine, to holistic remedies, and anything in between, nurses have a rather large arsenal at their disposal when it comes to treating the patients that are under their care. Humor as an alternative therapy has long been understood as a proven means to aid in the recovery process. “With so much power to heal and renew, the ability to laugh easily and frequently is a tremendous resource for surmounting problems, enhancing your relationships, and supporting both physical and emotional health” (Smith & Segal, 2015). The purpose of this paper is to discuss situations in which humor would be a viable alternative therapy
As a person who is passionate about music, I am the one who often goes to the live performances.
Richman, J. The lifesaving function of humor with the depressed and suicidal elderly. Gerontologist 35(2): 271 (1995).
Laughter therapy started in the 1970s and is a non-invasive, complementary and alternative therapy (Cousins,1976) Laughter therapy, which uses humour to improve quality of life, decrease pain, reduce stress and has become a therapy trend according to recent studies (Weiss,2002;Balick&Lee,2003;Bennett,Zeller,Rosenberg,&McCann.2003 MacDonald,2004;) The merits of this therapy are that it is easy to recommend and does not cause contrary effects with respect to side effects dose, allergies, and (Strean,2009) Around the world, there are several laughter therapy clinics operated with the purpose of emancipating anti-stress and increasing happiness by practicing laughter,( Ghodsbin, Ahmadi, Jahanbin,
Feeling down and depressed? Laugh all those troubles away. Laughter is a simple yet substantial way of putting that little spring back in the step. When people say “Laughter is the best medicine,” what are they referring to? Laughing acts as calorie burner, prevents heart disease or other illnesses, can increase learning abilities and focus, or even bring a more optimistic outlook on life.
Create a website to list your performance dates and promote upcoming concerts using online advertising campaigns. By now, you should also have a social media page where you can keep in contact with fans and update them about your latest works. Post information about your latest works, and interact with your listeners to put a face to your music. Then, when it comes time to put on a concert, you will have a host of potential concertgoers to help make your concerts more profitable and
Have you ever heard of bands that are local? Some bands play at late night events but you’ve never heard of them. That’s because they don’t have anywhere to start so people out of the city can listen to them. How do you think they can get more fans? Putting a video on YouTube rarely works especially if it doesn’t come from a popular sponsor. The band members record themselves and upload it to a website and have the music the uploaded free. In order for there to be more fans, the band needs to have their own music free. Someone that hasn’t heard of an artist won’t pay to listen to their songs, they won’t know if it’ll be a good ...
Humor has been the source of entertainment throughout history. Today humor is practiced in movies, plays, songs, television shows and radio. Humor has brought fame and fortune to those who have mastered its power.
stress and can be good for your health. Doctors say that laughing is good for