January 24 – Global Belly Laugh Day

Posted on January 24, 2015

Whether you are giggling or chortling, chuckling or guffawing, tittering or whooping or snickering—today, try to up the ante on your laughter and get into a body-shaking belly laugh.

How to do it?

Take your pick: TV shows, YouTube videos, books, jokes and riddles, movies, songs. There's a lot of funny stuff going on!

• Check out the science of laughter.
  
  

• You can read the first chapter of The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny here. 

Here are a few of my favorite funny things:

• TV – Leave It to Beaver (G) and The Goldbergs (probably PG)

• Movies – The Princess Bride (PG) and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (PG-13)

• Books – The Monster at the End of This Book, by Jon Stone

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J. K. Rowling

Holes, by Louis Sachar   

• Music – Weird Al 

• Funniest Rube Goldberg music video –  OK Go's This Too Shall Pass

• Funniest dance in a music video –  OK Go's Here It Goes Again

• Funniest literal music video – Take Me On (Pipe Wrench Fight)

• Funniest calculus music video – Calculus Rhapsody

Also on this date:

Elfstedentochtin the Netherlands






National Peanut Butter Day 

Pioneer in the study of memory Hermann Ebbinghaus's birthday 

Ballerina Maria Tallchief's birthday

Anniversary of gold discovery in California

AND Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day

Basant Panchami 

Plan ahead:

Check out my Pinterest pages on:

• January holidays 
• January birthdays 
• Historical anniversaries in January

And here are my Pinterest boards for:

• February holidays 
• February birthdays 
• Historical anniversaries in February