{"id":16040,"date":"2015-05-08T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=16040"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:10:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:10:14","slug":"friday-fun-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/16040","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Jokes, Humor, Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling a bit stressed? Maybe a little laughter could take the edge off! According to the documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snagfilms.com\/films\/title\/laughology\" title=\"link to Laughology at SnagFilms.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Laughology<\/em><\/a> (2nd-floor DVDs, Academic, BF575.L3 L28 2010), laughing is a great way to reduce stress. And it&#8217;s good for your heart (see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/umm.edu\/news-and-events\/news-releases\/2000\/laughter-is-good-for-your-heart-according-to-a-new-ummc-study\" title=\"link to Laughter is good for your heart\" target=\"_blank\">Laughter is Good for Your Heart, According to a New UMMC Study<\/a>&#8220;)!<\/p>\n<p>Andersen Library can help! Search the <a href=\"http:\/\/uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/primo_library\/libweb\/action\/dlSearch.do?dscnt=1&#038;displayMode=full&#038;vid=WW&#038;institution=WW&#038;search_scope=WW_VOY\" title=\"search UW-Whitewater's books, media and more (UW-Whitewater)\" target=\"_blank\">Books, Media and More<\/a> section of Research@UWW and find<\/p>\n<ul>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/napalm.jpg\" alt=\"cover of Napalm and Silly Putty book\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/p>\n<li>book titles such as <em>The World&#8217;s best jokes <\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, PN6153 .C6 1936a), <em>The Oxford dictionary of humorous quotations<\/em> (2nd-floor Reference Collection, PN6084.H8 O94 2001), <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&#038;AuthType=ip,uid&#038;db=nlebk&#038;AN=226605&#038;site=ehost-live&#038;scope=site\" title=\"UW-W only link to ebook Tales to Tickle Your Funny Bone\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tales to tickle your funny bone: Humorous tales from around the world<\/em><\/a> (online), <em>&#8220;You-know&#8221; stories<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, PN6014 .B4 2009), <em>Dave Barry in cyberspace<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, PN6231.E4 B27 1996), <em>The 50 funniest American writers: An anthology of humor from Mark Twain to the Onion<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, PN6165 .F55 2011), <em> Humor me: An anthology of funny contemporary writing (plus some great old stuff too)<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, PN6162 .H755 2010), <em>Napalm &#038; silly putty<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/george-carlin-9542307#early-life\" title=\"George Carlin bio at biography.com\" target=\"_blank\">George Carlin<\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, PN6162 .C276 2001), and lots more.<\/li>\n<li>a recorded stand-up routine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2609912\/\" title=\"Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain explained at IMDb\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Kevin Hart: Let me explain<\/em><\/a> (2nd-floor Browsing DVDs, feature films, at &#8220;call number&#8221; Kev), and <\/li>\n<li>comedy films and TV shows that can be watched, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0079470\/\" title=\"Life of Brian described at IMDb.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Monty Python&#8217;s Life of Brian<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077578\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" title=\"Foul Play described at IMDb.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Foul play<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0305224\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2\" title=\"Anger Management described at IMDb.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Anger management<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0098830\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" title=\"In Living Color TV series described at IMDb.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>In living color<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1266020\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" title=\"Parks and Recreation TV series described at IMDb.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Parks and recreation<\/em><\/a>, British comedy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0487831\/\" title=\"The IT Crowd TV series described at IMDb.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The IT crowd<\/em><\/a>, and many others (alphabetical by title in 2nd-floor Browsing DVDs).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yep, who knew Andersen Library could be such a fun(ny) place? And good for your health, too.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like assistance with finding materials, please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/get-help\/ask-a-librarian\" title=\"Ask a Librarian (come in to the Reference Desk, call 262.472.1032, email or chat)\" target=\"_blank\">ask a librarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling a bit stressed? Maybe a little laughter could take the edge off! According to the documentary Laughology (2nd-floor DVDs, Academic, BF575.L3 L28 2010), laughing is a great way to reduce stress. And it&#8217;s good for your heart (see &#8220;Laughter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/16040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[178,2808,1040,41263,220,3200,110461,110459,110460,110458,939,184,13960],"class_list":["post-16040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","tag-books","tag-comedy","tag-documentaries","tag-friday-fun","tag-fun-stuff","tag-humor","tag-laughercise","tag-laughing","tag-laughology","tag-laughter","tag-leisure","tag-movies","tag-stress-relief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16040"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16078,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16040\/revisions\/16078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}