Stand up for your health!
People have always enjoyed laughing, and there has always been humour. One favourite type of comedy is called stand-up. Stand-up is a kind of comedy that is done on a stage by a comedian talking straight to audience members. A stand-up comedian may tease an audience member, or might decide to tell different jokes depending upon how the audience reacted to his or her previous jokes. Types of stand-up
There are a variety of different styles of stand-up comedy. Some comedians tell jokes about the way people behave or about daily life. For example, they may talk about how people act when they queue up, or they may ask why it only rains when you forget your umbrella. Other comedians rely on visual humour. Their humour may be inspired by
objects. For example, one comedian uses a huge hammer to break watermelons while he makes jokes about what he is doing. Another comedian points to a video tennis game and says, I?ve been playing tennis every day for a month. I don?t understand why I am not losing weight! Yet other comedians may trip over chairs, walk into doors, and fall down on stage in order to make people laugh. This kind of absurd humour is not very funny if you are only listening and not watching the comedian?s performance. The last kind of comedian does
impression—no or she will act or speak like a well known person in order to make fun of that person. While this kind of humour may sound cruel, it usually only works if both the comedian and the audience have affection for or admire the person being made fun of. A famous comedian
Only a few stand-up comedians have become famous as television and film performers later on in life. One such person is Billy Crystal. Like other stand-up comedians who have gone on to act in films, Crystal still enjoys stand-up. People around the world enjoy
watching him when he hosts the Academy Awards. He has hosted the show eight times. Each time, he performs his stand-up routine front of millions of people when the show is broadcast live on TV. One little-known fact is that when Crystal is the host of the Academy Awards, he always keeps a toothbrush in his pocket for good luck. He says it is because when he started practicing stand-up as a child, he told himself jokes while standing in front of the mirror, brushing his teeth.
One reason Crystal has become so famous is that he is very quick thinking, and is often able to come up with new jokes about the people and things around him. When Crystal was the host of the 2004 Academy Awards, a very old actor, who had acted in films before they had sound, gave a speech. He talked for several minutes, but there was a technical problem, and no one in the audience could hear him. They could only see him standing there moving his lips. Instead of telling the joke he had planned, Crystal made up a new one. He said, ?It seems appropriate that he got his start in silent films!? The audience howled with laughter.
Crystal is popular with all age groups and has the ability to amuse people all over the world. This proves that stand-up can enjoyed by everyone. You can expect to hear a lot more from Billy Crystal-he has no plans to stop making films, or to stop telling jokes. He hopes to follow in the footsteps of other famous comedians, such as Bob Hope and
George Burns, who lived to be 100 years old and kept working until nearly the end of their lives.
Laughter is good for your health!
Nowadays, stand-up comedy is popular all over the world. Doctors have been researching what effect stand-up and other forms of comedy have on us, and have discovered that people who laugh a lot live longer. They say this is because when you laugh,
your brain sends chemicals around your body that are good for you. Laughing helps your body stay healthy and can even help you fight pain. Maybe this explains the long lives of men like Bob Hope and George Burns. Whatever the reason, research shows that in the end, the English saying, laughter is the best medicine?, may be true after all. So, go and make someone laugh—it just might help them (and you) live longer.
欣赏单口喜剧，促进身心健康！
人们总是爱笑，幽默无时不在。一种深受人们喜爱的喜剧形式叫做单口喜剧。单口喜剧是一种舞台剧，由一个演员表演，演员与观众直接交流。单口喜剧演员可以拿某一位观众开玩笑，也可以根据观众的反应随机应变，讲各种笑话。 单口喜剧的类型
单口喜剧有很多不同的类型。有些演员拿人们的行为方式来开玩笑，或者讲有关日常生活的笑话。例如，他们取笑人们排队时的举动，或者问为什么偏偏在你忘记带雨伞时天会下雨。别的演员依靠视觉幽默，他们的幽默可以是由物品激发的。例如，某个演员一边拿着个巨大的锤子去砸西瓜，一边以此说着笑话。再如某个演员指着电脑网球游戏说：“我每天都打网球，已经一个月了。我就是搞不懂体重为啥一点也降不下来！”还有些别的演员可能玩这些把戏逗笑观笑：被椅子绊倒，撞到了房门，或是跌倒在舞台上。如果你只是听而不看演员的表演，这种荒唐的幽默就不搞笑了。最后一种是滑稽模仿，这类演员模仿某个名人的言谈举止以取笑这个名人。这种幽默听起来有点刻薄，但通常只有当演员和观众都喜欢或者崇拜这个被取笑的对象时，这种幽默才奏效。 一位著名的喜剧演员
只有为数不多的单口喜剧演员在之后的生涯中走红的影视明星。一个成功的例子就是比利·克里斯托。与其他转向电影表演的单口喜剧演员—样，克里斯托现在依然热爱单口喜剧。全世界的观众都喜爱看他主持的奥斯卡颁奖典礼。他已主持过八届奥斯卡颁奖典礼。每次主持奥斯卡颁奖典礼现场直播的时候，他都会在数百万观众面前表演他的单口喜剧节日。这里有一个鲜为人知的事实：每次主持奥斯卡颁奖典礼的时候，克里斯托总要在自己的口袋里放一把牙刷以求好运!他说，这是因为在他小时候开始练习单口喜剧的时候，他会站在镜子面前，边刷牙边对自己说笑话! 克里斯托之所以如此出名，原因之—就是他思维异常敏捷，常常能就身边的人或事即兴编排笑话来。当克里斯托主持2004年的奥斯卡颁奖典礼时，曾在无声电影中扮演过角色的一位很老的演员上台发言。他讲了几分钟，但由于技术故障，观众中没有人能够听见他在说些什么。大家只能看见他站在那里，嘴唇动个不停。见此情景，克里斯托放弃了事先准备好的笑话，即兴编了一个新的。他说：“看来，他的确适合从无声电影起家!”观众哄堂大笑。 克里斯托深受各年龄段人群的喜爱，他有能力让全世界的人开心。这证明，单口 喜剧能得到所有人的喜爱。你可以期待听到更多比利·克里斯托的表演——他尚无息影的打算，也没有停止讲笑话的想法。他希望效仿鲍勃·霍普和乔治·伯恩斯等单口喜剧明星，他们都活到了—百岁，并且一直工作到生命的尽头。 大笑有益健康!
如今，单口喜剧流行全世界。医学工作者一直在研究单口喜剧和其他喜剧形式能够对我们产生什么样的影响，并已发现笑口常开的人更长寿。他们说这是因为当你笑的时候，你的大脑会向全身传送有益健康的化学物质。笑有助于保持身体健康，甚至能够帮助你战胜疼痛。这个说法或许能够解释鲍勃·霍普和乔治·伯恩斯这样的人长寿的原因吧!不管是什么原因，研究表明，那句英语格言“笑是灵丹妙药”到头来可能真的没错。所以，行动起来，让别人笑—笑——这或许能够有助于他们(还有你自己)长命百岁。
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