Tag Archives: Humor

Saturday Night Live

Did you see the Saturday Night Live skit about Governor David Paterson? Paterson is legally blind and according to the New York Times, portrayed as disoriented and buffonlike. His office said the skit amounted to nothing more than cheap ridicule. The Governor is well know for making light of his disability-but not on this night.
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Humor and Disabilities

If it were up to me a mandatory course on improv humor would be required for all children with disabilities.  To parents I would offer this insight-the healing doesn’t start until the laughter begins, I’m serious. Humor is the universal language and it’s impossible to have a pity party and laugh at the same time.
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