Product Description

Serious Laughter offers a wealth of ideas and practical suggestions of how to add humor and laughter to your life. This book provides easy to understand information in an entertainingly friendly, but very authoritative way. In addition, it is filled with action packed drawings that create excitement for the reader.

Serious Laughter teaches the medical and spiritual benefits of humor and shows you how to find the laughter. This book gives example after example of how to go about adding these aspects to your life both at work and at home. But more than that Serious Laughter takes you by the hand and shows you how to deal with stress and worry, anger, resentfulness, fear, doubt, insecurity, jealousy, rage and depression. It is a excellent source of motivational material that will keep you thinking positive. Partly autobiographical this book proves to be a delight to read as each page is very conversational and personal.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #172810 in Books
• Published on: 1998-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 156 pages

Review
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I chose Serious Laughter as a required text for a COM230 Scriptwriting class at Monroe Community College because I found it to be a unique book in stimulating people to think funny. It was just what the doctor ordered, not only in the classroom but also in the lives of many of my students. Nothing Ive found compares.
Barry Goldfarb, Associate Professor of Communications, Monroe Community College

Serious Laughter is a syllabus on enjoyment. It leads us through many fun topics and solutions. In a sense it is a chapter on desserts- one page being more delectable then the other. To sum it up the dedication says it all: "There are three things that are real- God, human folly and laughter. The first two are beyond comprehension. So, we must do what we can with the third."
Rhoda Lee Fisher, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist Co-Author of Pretend The World Is Funny

Yvonne Conte shares one of the most important lessons in life - you always have a choice. Sometimes life leaves you standing in manure. Serious Laughter is the how to guide to holding your nose and laughing
Rob Leiderman Owner Comix Cafe Comedy Clubs -- Publisher Comments

About the Author
Yvonne Conte is founder and "Director of Fun" at Crack-A-Smile Humor Project. She is a highly sought after professional speaker, trainer, and the creator of Crack-A-Smile's six corporate workshops. She recently developed the Silly Solutions progam designed exclusively for America's school systems.

As a writer and stand up comedian, Yvonne entertained audiences nationally for seven years. She appeared as a guest on ABC TV's Vicki Lawrence and Caryl and Marilyn Shows. She appears on NBC's Syracuse affiliate WSTM's Noon News with Laura Hand as a Humor Consultant.

She was the national spokesperson for The Travelers Channel and has appeared on numerous television commercials.

Serious Laughter is a direct result of the research collected in the process of putting together the Positive Power of Humor Workshops. She has traveled to over twenty different cities in eight states and two countries and held over 200 workshops since she began in July of 1996. Her highly acclaimed Humor Workshops have attracted people from all walks of life.

Yvonne Conte lives in Rochester, New York where she continues to add to her "Joy List" every day.

Customer Reviews

Community College hubris
Ms. Conte is a "community college" graduate; it reflects in her book. To follow this dismal paperback with a book concerning a child and the 9/11 experience is appauling and reflects her uneducated hubris.

A great book to support healthy living!
I am a health educator and often refer my clients to this book since it's so full of joy and the light-heartedness that nurtures our spirit and promotes health!!
I highly recommend it!

laughing my way across the ocean....
I took this book with me on a trip I took to Europe last summer. I had it read in less than two days. It was very entertaining and kept my attention but more than that I found it to be very insightful. The stories she has in there about her family really crack me up because they could be my family too. At times I laughed out loud reading them. I am a college student right now and would recommend this book to college students to help them cope with the stress that comes with attending college. I think anyone could benefit from using a little more laughter in life. After all laughter really is the best medicine. I was not aware of how instrumental laughter is to our health. Read this book and find great ways to add laughter to your days.