分类目录归档：laughter
Hi. I'm going to talk to you today about laughter,
and I just want to start by thinking about the first time
I can ever remember noticing laughter.
This is when I was a little girl. I would've been
This summer I was back in Ohio for a family wedding,
and when I was there,
there was a meet and greet with Anna and Elsa from "Frozen."
Not the Anna and Elsa from "Frozen,"
as this was not a Disney-sa
All right, I want to see a show of hands:
how many of you have unfriended someone on Facebook
because they said something offensive about politics or religion,
childcare, food?
(Laughter)
And how many
So a while ago, I tried an experiment.
For one year, I would say yes to all the things that scared me.
Anything that made me nervous, took me out of my comfort zone,
I forced myself to say yes to.
Did
I have spent the past 38 years trying to be invisible.
I'm a copy editor.
I work at The New Yorker,
and copyediting for The New Yorker is like playing shortstop
for a Major League Baseball team:
every
Translator: Leslie Gauthier Reviewer: Camille Martínez
I want you to look around the room for a minute
and try to find the most paranoid person here --
(Laughter)
And then I want you to point at that
Last year, I got a chance to watch the new "Star Wars" movie,
which was fantastic,
but one thing kept bugging me.
I don't know if you noticed this or not.
In this entirely technically advanced world,
I took a cell phone
and accidentally made myself famous.
(Laughter)
I was just talking about the things that I cared about,
but with the click of a button
and an incendiary viral video
I propelled mys
Leah Chase: Oh, this is beautiful.
Oh, gosh, I never saw such a room
and beauty and strength like I'm looking at.
That's gorgeous. It is.
It is a beautiful room.
Pat Mitchell: I almost said your age,
As an actor, I get scripts
and it's my job to stay on script,
to say my lines
and bring to life a character that someone else wrote.
Over the course of my career,
I've had the great honor
playing some