Does Laughter Yoga Work?

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Is the old cliché true — is laughter the best medicine? Kurt Andersen and Mary Harris, a health reporter at WNYC, go to a laughter yoga class to find out. Also, we hear from a neuroscientist who studies laughter and moonlights as a standup comedian. Comic Chris Gethard explains why he resisted getting help for his depression out of fear of losing his humorous edge — and how getting treatment transformed his career. And we find out when medical humor is — and is not — just what the doctor ordered.

(Originally aired July 14, 2016)

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0:11.4	Studio.
0:12.6	That's it.
0:13.4	Right?
0:14.1	Studio.
0:14.7	360 with Karp Oanderson.
0:17.2	Kurt Anderson.
0:17.9	I listen to it on the radio in my car. Don't be sniffy about. I'm not being sniffy Kurt Anderson. Kurt Anderson. I listened to it on the radio in my car.
0:21.6	Don't be sniffy about.
0:23.1	I'm nothing sniffy.
0:24.2	I think you are.
0:25.0	No, no.
0:25.6	You've got a nose for it.
0:26.8	Oh, gosh.
0:28.1	What are you saying over there?
0:29.9	Today on the show, comedy was one of the things that was keeping my head above water.
0:33.8	Pretty much everything we think we know about it is wrong. Our body cannot differentiate between real and fake laughter.
0:40.8	Keep listening.
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