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Funny, Family-Friendly Super Bowl Commercials

February 6, 2013 By Deb Chitwood 4 Comments

I’m one of those people … yes, those people who are more interested in the Super Bowl commercials than the Super Bowl game. I consider the Super Bowl commercials mini laughter vacations. (“Laughter is an instant vacation.” Milton Berle)

This year, my husband and I were lucky to spend Super Bowl Sunday with our kids/kids-in-love in San Diego. Terry, Will, and Tom watched the Super Bowl while Christina, Chea, and I had some girl time. Christina, Chea, and I just saw part of the Super Bowl, so I watched all the Super Bowl commercials online this week. I asked for everyone’s favorite commercials. We all tend to especially like the funny ones. And our favorites this year were all family friendly.

My Family’s Favorite Funny, Family-Friendly 2013 Super Bowl Commercials:

Family-friendly depending on your children’s ages:

“Laughter Is an Instant Vacation” Word-Art Freebie:

“Laughter is an Instant Vacation” Word-Art Freebie (without watermark)

What was your favorite Super Bowl commercial this year?

Note: I have lots of word-art inspiration at the Raising Figure Skaters Facebook page and on Pinterest!

Stock Photo at the top of the post by Lisa Young.

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Do Some Inner Jogging

August 26, 2011 By Deb Chitwood 14 Comments

Laughter is inner jogging. – Norman Cousins

Today, I want to focus on something that’s always been very important to my family and is being proven important for everyone’s lives – laughter.
“Laughter is an Instant Vacation” Word-Art Freebie

“e.e. cummings on Laughter” Word-Art Freebie

The Importance of Laughter

Here’s a video on Laughter Yoga that I saw recently at The Zen Mama’s Blog.

Some of My Favorite Aids to Laughter

My family has always loved watching movies that were comedies as well as seeing comedians perform live.

My husband and I have fond memories of Jon Lovitz on Saturday Night Live from 1985-1990. “Tommy Flanagan, The Pathological Liar” was always one of our favorite characters. Since then, we were able to see Jon Lovitz at Comedy Works in Denver. He has one of the funniest comedy acts we’ve seen.

Jon Lovitz will be at Comedy Works again this weekend. Here’s a Saturday Night Live video of Jon Lovitz as Tommy Flanagan in “Tommy in Jail”:

Here’s a post I published previously with some more videos that make me laugh: Laughter Vacations.

What makes you laugh?

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“e.e. cummings on Laughter” Word-Art Freebie

August 24, 2011 By Deb Chitwood 4 Comments

Here’s some word art from the e.e. cummings quote “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

To download word art, click here, then right click on the image and choose “Save Picture As . . .”

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Clip Art Sun by maigi.

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Laughter Vacations

February 25, 2011 By Deb Chitwood 8 Comments

In honor of Project Smile, I want to focus on some videos that did more than make me smile – they made me laugh. I love the quote by Milton Berle:

“Laughter is an instant vacation.”

Here were some of my laughter vacations in February.

The 2011 Super Bowl commercial that really made me laugh:

Of course, I love funny animal commercials. The Budweiser frogs and lizards were always some of my favorites – and I don’t even drink. Now if only they’d have funny commercials like this for healthy smoothies!

Smoking Can Damage Your Health Video Commercial

I found this video by visiting Fit Moms Fit Kids Club, one of the blogs I discovered through Blog Frog . This was definitely another of my February laugh vacations.

Doc Martin

My husband and I generally don’t watch cable TV except for figure skating and the Super Bowl. We do enjoy watching TV series on DVD that we order through Netflix – series like E.R., 24, Grey’s Anatomy, House, and our new favorite, Doc Martin.

I think Doc Martin is a bit like the British version of House with a touch of Mr. Bean. It’s set in beautiful Cornwall, England, and is the story of the new doctor in the fictional village of Portwenn. The village is filled with quirky characters, who, along with Doc Martin have made me laugh more than characters in any series since the early years of Saturday Night Live.

Here’s a video with just a few of the funny moments from season 1, which, of course, are funniest if you watch the series.