31

Mar

LAUGH THERAPY: Geri’s Game – Pixar’s Short Animation

This short animation is still my all-time favorite.  I don’t know what’s so good about it.  I guess what I liked about it is Geri’s spirit, the way the animators have put spirit into the character of Geri.  It is amazing how they did it.  It must have required thousands and thousands of drawings to make Geri move and laugh like that.  Hihihihihi.

I guess one other good thing about it is that Geri is alone but he is not lonesome.  Can you see the difference?  We can be alone but not feel alone.  Heck, sometimes we can feel alone even if we are in a group.  But Geri knows how to delight himself even if he is by himself.  That’s a very difficult thing. Especially if you don’t have your cellphone, smart phone, iPhone, iPad or PSP with you.

I don’t want to play chess with myself but I want to learn how it is to enjoy those moments when I am by myself (without playing app games or lurking in facebook).

Here’s Geri for your laugh therapy today: :-)

 

 

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29

Mar

VIDEO: CNN’s Anderson Cooper – Laughter is Contagious

Laughter is contagious.  Especially if you watch a respected CNN anchor breaking into giggle while doing a live report.

In the Ridiculist segment of his show 360°, Anderson Cooper was reporting about French actor Gerard Depardieu urinating in the aisle of an airplane.  What made the report hilarious was not exactly because of Gerard Depardieu but in the way the report was written.  It was filled with puns – words with double meanings. Of course the puns were all connected to urinating.

Here are some of them:

  • Created his own little jetstream (Getting angry and water jetstream)
  • Oui Oui (French for Yes and Wee-wee)
  • Incontinent-al
  • Putting the P back in PR (Pee)
  • Cannot hold it anymore
  • Spill
  • They saw an actual thespian thes-peeing
  • Pampered (reference to brand of diaper)
  • Depends on it (reference to brand of adult diaper)
  • Pissing contest
  • Pee Off
  • After Gerard took a solo flight to Euro nation (urination)
  • Cleaning crew had to deal with the Golden Globe winning tinkle

 

And this is the pun that made Anderson Cooper lose it in laughing fit: (2:23)

  • They can thank their lucky stars it wasn’t Depar-two (No. 2)

 

And here’s more:

  • Discreetly peed in a bottle but it doesn’t hold water
  • Sooner it will be flushed from the memory
  • Just go with the flow

 

That’s a lot of Pee puns in a few minutes of reporting.  Here’s for your laughter therapy today:

 


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