Laughter is the best medicine

[Feinan]

Well...maybe, maybe not. But it DOES make one hell of a distraction....
Comedy Tonight
(from A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum)
Stephen Sondheim

Something familiar, something peculiar
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight
Something appealing, something appalling
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight
Nothing with kings, nothing with crowns
Bring on the lovers, liars and clowns
Old situations, new complications
Nothing portentous or polite
Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight

Something convulsive, something repulsive
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight
Something aesthetic, something frenetic
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight
Nothing with gods, nothing with fate
Weighty affairs will just have to wait
Nothing that's formal, nothing that's normal
No recitations to recite
Open up the curtain, comedy Tonight
Something familiar, something peculiar
Something for everybody: comedy tonight
Something that's gaudy, something that's bawdy
Something for everybawdy: comedy tonight
Nothing that's grim, nothing that's Greek
She plays Medea later this week
Stunning surprises, cunning disguises
Hundreds of actors out of sight
Pantaloons and tunics, courtesans and eunuchs
Funerals and chases, baritones and basses
Panderers, philanderers, cupidity, timidity
Mistakes, fakes, rhymes, crimes
Tumblers, grumblers, bumblers, fumblers

No royal curse, no Trojan horse
And a happy ending, of course
Goodness and badness, manifest madness
This time it all turns out all right
Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight
Effect: Everybody except Doug that's within Doug's field of effect is hit with uncontrollable laughter of the 'rolling on the ground laughing' intensity. Even after the song ends, most of those affected won't be able to do much for a few minutes, since they'll need time to recover/catch their breath.
Remember - tickling your opponent into submission is evil, but OH, so much fun...
--Feinan

[bmull]

Let us not forget that laughter can kill: www.snopes.com/horrors/fr...ughing.asp

[Bob Schroeck]

Another one I have on a CD in the car; in fact I was just listening to it on Saturday night... And "Emotion Control: Laughter" works perfectly for me.
Just as good might be "Parody Tonight" from "Forbidden Broadway". I'd post the lyrics here if I could find them, but there apparenly is no centralized repository of "Forbidden Broadway" lyrics on the Net, and I'm at work so I can't consult the liner notes from my CD set.

-- Bob
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