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. |