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Show W'nat Makes People Laugh. This comotlhm told of t In timo when ho sought tu olilnin a "job" with a riTiaiu manager, who said to him, "Make 1:10 laugh if you are a comedian.'' come-dian.'' That was ralhoi' a hard one, buL the comedian, equal to the occasion, occa-sion, replied: "I um too hungry to make you burst right out into laughter, but I can make you smile if you can lend nie eighty dollars, and then don't Luke my address." "The manager smiled first," continued continu-ed the comedian, "but not really at me. It was tho mental shock of being nsked for eighty dollars, and then realizing that he didn't have to giw it to me. A happy mental shock usually usu-ally results in laughter, as nearly all north is caused by little brain surprises. sur-prises. There is a reason for the slapstick stuff, .lust enter a street car with a certain pose, and see what happens. hap-pens. Why. a little innocent bobbing iVuther of a woman's hat. which tickles tick-les the nose of the long-suffering man next to her, is provocative of audible mirth." "Affairs at Washington," Joe Mitchell Chappie, in National Magazine. |