Bryan Sumner
Laughter, as the old saying goes, is the best medicine. As it turns out, this is literally true. Numerous scientific studies have shown that laughter not only eases pain and suffering, but it actually assists the healing process by reducing blood pressure and releasing stress.
Even better than that, a sense of humor has been conclusively linked to success in life. Funny people go further in life, probably because funny people are generally better liked than those who are humorless. Regardless of life “success”, a life full of laughter is better than a humorless existence. Now the question becomes, “[spin]What is the best way to evoke laughter?”
Pranks are even better than jokes at getting a laugh. A joke is only funny once, but pranks can be recycled — people laugh at them many years later as they are recounted
For this reason, I fall squarely on the side of pranks in the hot debate over whether they are better than jokes. Congress should really settle this issue once and for all by passing legislation declaring fun-filled tricks as the optimal catalyst of laughter and thus healing. They could call it the “Heal America Happily Act” or HAHA for short. When some joker challenged HAHA in court, I am sure that pranksters across this great land would rise up with one resounding voice to solicit donations. These monies would be put toward hiring the finest team of attorneys the world has ever seen — or at least the best since O.J. Simpson’s first trial — to defend pranking and its advocates all the way to the Supreme Court which would, of course, rule on the side of the People.
When the case of Joe Kerr vs. The United States is won by the People, the issue will be settled once and for all: America is a land where jokes are cool but pranks are considered awesome. We revere those who fool others because they create generations worth of yuks in one single, well executed maneuver. Any joker can nail. It takes a true genius to fool someone right to the point of freaking out, then relieve them by letting them know that they have been punked.
It’s all about the action, baby. Anybody can talk a good game. This concludes our discourse on why pranks are awesome while jokes are just good.
If you are looking for prank ideas, you should know exactly what to do. (Hint: It involves clicking a link in the previous sentence.)
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