Laughter

Whether someone told a joke, made a clumsy move, or you are just watching a comody, they can make people laugh. As mentioned in chapter eight in Hughes's book, "laughter is liberating in the sense of tension-relieving. Throughout history, people have used laughter as a chance to break away from reality, it can help a person cheer up, if only for a little while no matter what their mood is. The artist creatively tries to add humor to what may be a scene from a person's normal life and makes it irrational, whether through words or action. Just doing something funny enough to make an audience laugh can put both the entertainer and the viewers in an altered state. When a person laughs, they are putting more focus on that and less on something like anger or pain. In other words, we all need some humor in our lives, because laughter helps heal.