Play for Fun with laughter
In my 7 years as a professional standup comedian I was
continually overwhelmed by the fact that as comedians, we could take a group of
people in a room, who would never be together again, and unite them in
laughter. After the show was over, people would come up to you, buy your CD or
DVD, stop and chat, or comment on the show.
I would sometimes stand to the side and just watch the
whole proceedings. Watching people leave the comedy club feeling good, made me
feel good.
Then it struck me how valuable laughter was to people. Oprah had a show that had a lot of sadness and angst. She did some wonderful things
for people, but there was much sadness in her shows. Ellen, on the other hand
stressed fun and laughter. She even starts her show with some dancing and
everyone joins in. Her show is as strong as ever, and my daughter Molly got me
to watch it with her a couple of times. This woman wants people to feel good,
laugh, and have fun.
When I commented about this fun and laughter to a couple of
my ex players and guys I coached with, they all said basically the same thing
to me. V.J. when you were coaching you tried to make us laugh. We had fun. We
didn’t know at the time it was helping us as much as it did. What we did know
is that it was different than what we were used to, and we were drawn to it and
you.
You don’t have to be a professional comedian to bring fun
and laughter to your team. The opportunities will be there if you look for
them. Try it.
As the Joker said in the Batman movie: “Why so serious?”
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