What makes you laugh?

When was the last time you had a good giggle?

Humour is so subjective isn’t it? When a comedian bombs with a joke the silence from the audience is very awkward, but when they nail it the house rocks!

This week I’ve laughed at:

A piece doing the rounds called Growing Up Without A Cell Phone (thanks Michele A) I can’t find its original source so won’t post it in full but if you google you will find loads of versions of it, some of the highlights were lines like

I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent… you just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

And car seats – oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the “safety arm” across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling “shot gun” in the first place!

If anyone knows who wrote it let me know!

Last Sunday I allowed the Princess Child to sit up and watch the Logies (that’s an award show for the Aussie television industry). It was a parenting fail of some magnitude. The telecast didn’t end until almost 1.00am on Monday. Luckily the child fell asleep around 11.00pm and got herself to bed at 11.30pm but let me tell you we paid for it for the next couple of days – my children don’t function well on little sleep! At the moment when I was questioning my sanity on continuing on to the bitter end (for Gods sake we already knew the winner of the Gold Logie ’cause a newspaper had accidentally broken the embargo a couple of hours before) I laughed out loud when the following tweet came through from Australian tv and radio presenter  Myf  Warhurst after midnight.


I’m in London and I’ve had a day out. Have come home to find #Logies are STILL going. Is this a hostage situation? Is everyone ok?

— Myf Warhurst (@MyfWarhurst) April 7, 2013

1.463 million starting watching the telecast, by the end there was only 387,311 of us are left. We are the STAYERS. We are the ones that will soldier on through Armageddon long after the rest of you have given up the will to live. We’ll hang in there, because we WANT TO KNOW HOW IT ENDS!

So for me and 387,311 other insomniacs our dedication to pop culture knows no bounds. Or perhaps I was a victim of my own “fear of missing something good”. You get to a few hours in and you start to feel like you can’t walk away because to have hung in that long and then to have missed something amazing would be soul-destroying!

The laugh-out loud, best speech of the night goes to Julia Morris from House Husbands – a woman who can think on her feet!

http://youtu.be/GHKXJ56b49o

What about you? Anything made you giggle lately? Please share.

I’m going to try to take part in the A to Z Challenge Blog Hop this month. That means each day a post related to a letter of the alphabet.