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     Isn't laughter as infinite in feeling as music or poetry?  Laughter is the fury of a manic cackle, the fiendishness of a manic cackle, the cruel sneer of sarcasm.   Laughter can be as self-confident as laughing at your own mistakes, or self-conscious as a nervous laugh.  astonished as a surprise laugh at unexpected company,  poignant as remembering the jokes of a deceased friend, or loving as a mother making her baby giggle.

     No stone monument boasts triumph more than the last laugh, no love poem more amorous than a secret joke in a love letter, no textbook more learned than a clever pun.  Humor is impish as suppressing giggling at a naughty joke, innocent as a child's giggle, spiteful as sarcastic mockery, charitable as sharing funny stories with a sick friend in the hospital, or joyous as a family exploding in laughter at the same one liner.

     Great comics create great art, like music, painting, or sculpture.  A great comic times each line like a musician writing a symphony, expresses sublime tones like a painter, or sees three-dimensional depth like a sculptor or architect.  Laughter crafts universal art that anyone anywhere can create at any time, yet reaches the heights of a Shakespeare comedy.  Laughter is the soul dancing, the catalyst that accelerates all thought and feeling, the mystery of how our emotions plunge to the depths of hate and depression, yet somehow soar to the heights of joy, love, and beauty.

     So giggling as a little baby might be the first happiness we ever feel in life, and one final death bed joke the last.  From the first cave man amused by his spear missing his prey, to the most advanced astronaut chuckling over a supercomputer error, we will each in turn continue the eternity of laughter all our days here on the earth.

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