Information provided courtesy of the Bob Dylan Fan Club's annotated Theme Time project at http://www.thebobdylanfanclub.com/themetime/ where you'll find even more info/links than included here Laughter It's nightime in the Big City Freshly fallen slow turns grey in the gutter A waitress returns home, happy to take her shoes off "For the next hour we are going to examine the involuntary, unconscious activity known as laughter. We can consciously inhibit it, but we can't consciously produce it. It's impossible to laugh on command. You can fake an orgasm, but you can't fake laughter. The Singers and The Songs Slim Gaylord-Laughing and rhythm Ernie Caffin-Laughing and Joking. "the rockabilly artist performer with a mile wide country streak. Clyde Mcphatter-Everyone's laughing The Louvin Bros.-Don't Laugh Big Joe Turner-After my Laughter Came Tears Jimmy Revard and the Oklahoma Playboys-Lose your Blues and Laugh at Life Mark Knopfler and Van Morrison-The Last Laugh "You know these guys! I don't need to tell you about 'em." Gene Chandler-After the Laughter "One thing that's no laughing matter is pigeon-holing. Sometimes people just wanna think you can do one thing and they trap you there. They don't let you grow. Case in point Gene Chandler." Sonny Bono-Laugh at me Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding "We're talking and laughter. Chortle, Guffaws, tee-hees, giggles, hoops, hollers, snickers, ha-has, and other explosive ejaculations of mirth.”(bob laughs) The Gardenias-I'm laughing at you "I'm not actually laughing at you, that's just the name of the song." Toots and the Maytalls-When I Laugh Roy Brown-I Got the Last Laugh “Vengence is a dish best served cold.” Kris Conner-They All Laughed The Spinners-Laugh Everyone at the Clown Places Northern Mississippi Oklahoma Texas San Antonio Chicago Boston Detroit Sedona, AZ “Hey! That rhymes!” Philly Record Labels Sun Specialty Fortune Studio One Atlantic Operas, Movies, TV and other media Pagliacci The Untouchables The Hank McCewon Sybil Grace under Fire Two and a Half men Woody Woodpecker Mad Magazine A Day at the Races Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein The Thin Man Arsenic and Old Lace Bully Born Yesterday Some Like it Hot Zoolander "I hear they're making a sequel" Lucy and Desi roast Guests Chuck Lorie Rickey Gervais Other people Jeriko Rosario Robert Deniro Henry Lord Beecher Douglas Corrigan "Wrongway Corrigan"-Who flew to Ireland when I was supposed to be flying to California Leonardo DiVinci Billie Holiday "Back then, Songwriters used to write songs and let the artist interpret 'em. Nowadays, People just write songs for themselves. They put themselves in boxes, ticky-tacky boxes. We've lost out on the whole art form on interpretive singing." "Seriousness is an accident of time. In consists in putting too high a value on time. Eternity is a mere moment. Just long enough for a joke. " Hermann Hesse Walter and Gracie Lance "Walter Lance was on his honeymoon with his wife Gracie. They kept hearing a woodpecker pecking on their roof. The difference between me and him is that it didn't drive him crazy." Mel Blanc "One thing that's no laughing matter is pigeon-holing. Sometimes people just wanna think you can do one thing and they trap you there. They don't let you grow. Case in point Gene Chandler." Curtis Mayfield Art Rupp Cher Kurt Vonnegut David Letterman Joseph Hiller The Marx Bros. William Powell Myrna Loy Broderick Crawford Julie Holliday Billy Wilder Ben Stiller WC Fields Laurel and Hardy Leslie Kahn Harry Einstein ( Parkyakarkus) Albert Brooks (Einstein) Claude Thornhill Christopher Columbus Wilber and Orville Wright Guglielmo Marconi (Nobel Laureate for radio) Richard Pryor Tom Bell Other Songs Duke of Earl Pressure Drop Monkey Man 54-46 Was My Number Other Singers Julie London June Christy Helen O’Connell Stan Kenton Ways to Laugh Behind someone’s back At somebody’s expense Up your Sleeve (16th century) “Well, it ain’t easy to say goodbye either, but I gotta do it. I don’t want to go, but I got to go. Time is up. Let me just leave you with the words of one of the wisest men I know; Uncle Miltie. Milton Berle. He said, and he knows what he’s talking about, ‘Laughter is an instant vacation.’ You got it uncle Miltie. I’m gonna go have myself a vacation.”