INSTRUCTIONS
Whenever you’ve gone through — or are going through — a calamity, it’s important that you acknowledge the hurt, pain, anger and other emotions that are justified. At the same time and after you’ve caught your breath, it’s time to look at things differently if you want to feel good again — which you deserve. Laughter really is the best medicine and if you’re stumped for ways to laugh, I’ve got just the ticket for you right here. There’s something for everyone. So get ready to roll on the floor laughing and toss those calamities overboard.
111 Ways to Add Laughter to Your Life
1 | Sign up for the Calamity Cocktails newsletter on the top of the page and you'll get a free Calamity Survival Kit. |
2 | Make a funny face at a baby. |
3 | Watch a comedy show like Last Comic Standing |
4 | Learn a funny joke and tell it to a friend. |
5 | Look on YouTube for funny videos. |
6 | Sign up for Calamity Cocktails’ weekly video shots on YouTube. |
7 | Watch a funny movie. |
8 | Join a laughter yoga group. |
9 | Wear a clown nose. |
10 | Download photo props and take funny photos (included in the Calamity Survival Kit) |
11 | Take your disaster and think of something funny about it or a way to look at it. |
12 | Go into the memory bank and recall a time when you could not quit laughing. |
13 | Go to a live comedy show. |
14 | Watch funny sitcoms. |
15 | Find a comedy podcast you can listen to as you drive or exercise. Warning: people may look at you weirdly in the gym. |
16 | Fake laugh really loud and crazy… you'll start laughing for real. |
17 | Spend time watching children and how they laugh 100x a day. |
18 | Pets will make you laugh. There are millions of funny pet videos on the web. |
19 | Listen to a track of people laughing. |
20 | Take your camera and go out looking for something funny to photograph. |
21 | Go to a busy spot, maybe the mall and just sit and people watch… look for the funniest outfit or hairstyle. |
22 | Read — the lost art from the past — something funny. |
23 | Get a fake tattoo… reactions will make others laugh and you too. |
24 | Read funny blogs… like the one here at calamitycocktails.com. |
25 | Imagine someone who annoys you in a diaper with a pacifier. |
26 | Sing as loud as you can in the shower. |
27 | Have a pillow fight. |
28 | Speak to strangers with a foreign accent. |
29 | Draw a picture of someone in an exaggerated way. Get a caricature done. |
30 | Dance like no one is watching. |
31 | Play a mild prank on someone. |
32 | Wear something outrageous that will make others laugh and you will too. |
33 | Make some funny cookies or cupcakes and give to a friend. |
34 | Play a game with friends: Calamity Eraser |
35 | Record someone laughing. |
36 | Find a funny greeting card to send to a friend. |
37 | Create personalized funny e-greeting cards. |
38 | Get a funny bumper sticker and watch for reactions. |
39 | Wear a t-shirt with something funny on it. |
40 | See who can make the funniest face at work… take 5-minute Funny Breaks. |
41 | Host a pajama party. |
42 | Collect funny quotes. |
43 | Sign up for the Daily Drink of Humor. |
44 | Change things around in one room… Add funny accessories or crazy color combos. |
45 | Stage a funny photo with someone in the background like you're squeezing their head. |
46 | Wear a boa around for a day or a fake mustache for guys. |
47 | Pick a whole outfit completely different from your normal style and savor the comments. |
48 | Go with a friend to lunch dressed in a wacky disguise. |
49 | Go through old photos to find the funniest ones and post them or frame them. |
50 | Listen to a comedy radio station or podcast as you drive. |
51 | Have everyone bring the funniest news story to work each week. This will force you to look for humor. |
52 | Take a humor course. |
53 | Join an improv group. |
54 | Put a folder on your desktop or create one for home and collect all things funny that are posted, etc. Look at it as needed. |
55 | Write yourself a prescription for laughter. |
56 | Make a funny business card that you give out to people. |
57 | Find a funny screensaver. |
58 | Find humor in difficult situations… examples abound at CalamityCocktails.com. |
59 | Visit the zoo. |
60 | Go to a carnival or amusement park and ride with the enthusiasm of a child. |
61 | Eat cotton candy. |
62 | Go to a candy store. |
63 | Get an app with funny sounds. |
64 | Order a funny button for your desk and push it when things are crazy. |
65 | Have a smile standoff… make the biggest smile and see who laughs first |
66 | Turn things upside down. |
67 | Set an alarm on your phone to remind you to read a funny quote. |
68 | Call a friend and remind each other of funny times. |
69 | Have a slumber party in a hotel. |
70 | Play mini golf. |
71 | Go bowling. |
72 | Put a funny voicemail message on your phone. |
73 | Stay in a local hotel and pretend to be a tourist. |
74 | Put something funny in your wallet so you see it each time you buy something. |
75 | Write someone’s name and make up something funny to describe them with each letter. |
76 | Put tin cans on your car that say Just Laughing. |
77 | Keep a Laughter Journal. |
78 | Send or give someone something funny. |
79 | Draw smiley faces on your bills and credit card statements. |
80 | Write funny things in the “for” section of your checks or online checks. |
81 | Get an app with jokes. |
82 | Make up a funny story about strangers. |
83 | Smile, which leads to laughter. |
84 | Get a life-sized portrait… decorate it, put it in weird places (unexpected places). |
85 | Read archived funny blogs here. |
86 | Join Faithpoe LOL on Facebook and share some laughter. |
87 | Play with a puppy. |
88 | Imitate an animal like a monkey, elephant, kangaroo, or bird for 15 minutes. |
89 | Wear a disguise. |
90 | Photo bomb someone. |
91 | Leave mustache props or funny things in random places and see who picks them up. |
92 | Write a limerick or funny poem about someone you know. |
93 | Have an opposite day… breakfast for dinner, dinner for breakfast, desert first. Walk backwards, say goodbye instead of hello. |
94 | Send funny selfies. |
95 | Take photos with photo props from me. |
96 | Host a costume party (make up your own holiday) |
97 | Go to an open mic night. |
98 | Build a campfire and sing Kumbaye and make smores. |
99 | Make a water balloon, have a snowball fight…. play with water guns. |
100 | Breathe in helium. |
101 | Ride go carts, zip lines, slide down a mountain. |
102 | Put bubble captions on your photos. |
103 | Make a flip book. |
104 | Host a Yappy Hour where people bring their pets. |
105 | Have a pet photo contest. Have your friends or co-workers bring a photo of themselves with their pet and give a prize to the one who looks most like their pet. |
106 | Have a funny hat day at work. |
107 | Host a Costume Pet Party… .you and your pet both wear costumes. |
108 | Wear formal attire to a lunch party. |
109 | Surprise someone with a funny card hidden in their bag/briefcase. |
110 | Use a sharpie and put funny faces on your fruit. |
111 | Blow bubbles. |