stimulate intellectual and emotional G-spots. Alternatively you may call it a type of acupuncture. A good author doesn’t use them for their own sake. He’s not interested in just being brilliant, entertaining, the funny guy. Needless to say: If your needles are blunt, they will not penetrate the skin of your patients ...

Comic effects - as every clown and comedian will confirm - are the result of 10 % talent and 90 % craftsmanship, intelligence, hard work.

As we know from psychoanalysis, laughter causes a sort of catharsis; it „shakes“ the listener physically. We say: We are shaken by emotions. That means: Something is happening with us. Something helps us to overcome the status of just passive listening. Laughter is an echo of our instincts, our physical urges, of our animal past. In our daily lives, body and mind exist in separate domains. And: „everything at it’s time !“ Like our parents used to organize it: personal hygiene (the bath tub) on Friday, Sex on Saturday, Football on Sundays. The darker parts of ourselves are kept away from the bright spheres of intellect.

To laugh is a motor(ic) experience. Thinking becomes physical. Mind turns into body. Laughter aims to the outer world, it happens from inside to outside. We cannot keep it, it slips out of control; breaks out, erupts, explodes. It’s pure anarchy.

A smile always asks for balance, settling a conflict, reconciliation. Laughter is rebellion, revolt. Laughter unveils a situations. A smile tends to cover it up. To smile means to sublimate; laughter works like a laxative or - if you like it more decent -- it works like a valve, an outlet for a lot of things: shock, frustration, malicious joy, hatred. During the outburst of laughter we are relieved for a couple of seconds; without responsibility. In a way it’s like an orgasm but also: it’s a very short,