I love being around laughter. I don't even care if people are laughing at me—it just makes me happy to see someone smile... I'm no comedian, but it's immensely satisfying to get my dad to laugh at one ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Sometimes politics can get so polarized that all you can do is laugh.

Legendary humor columnist and fart joke maker Dave Barry once defined humor as “a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter ...