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CBC
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Funniest Fast Money Moments
Five questions. $10,000. The pressure is ON! One of the most nerve-racking parts of playing Family Feud Canada is being chosen to represent your family during Fast Money where everything can fall solely on your shoulders. While quick wits could lead to a $10,000 prize, the pressure can often make contestants fold and come up with some real blunders. While it can be unfortunate, the silver lining is it can create some big laughs and memorable moments. Here are some of our favourite Fast Money Moments. The Country of Europe Sure, this answer is funny enough on its own but things get even more hilarious when a hypothetical second (and THIRD) chance is proposed. Toasted…Well? She gave the qualitative when we wanted the quantitative The 30 Days of February LITERALLY any other month would have been a better pick I keep falling out of my car How does that happen MORE than once? Is this why you're single? To make matters worse, he said "Zee" instead of "Zed" I'm taking a complimentary robe If you're going to steal something, go big or go home Can I borrow $5000? This might have gone over better if we surveyed 100 mobsters Mmmmmm Tasty Dandelions If only the question was "Name a weed you SHOULDN'T eat" Carrots on Pizza? Don't ask a carnivore which veggies they like on their pizza Think you and your family have what it takes to create your own memorable moments on the show? Apply now and show us what you've got!
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
My Lungs Are Physically Sore From Laughing So Hard At These 15 Hilarious Black Twitter Tweets From The Week
While we can't endorse what X has become, we can bring you the worthwhile moments that still exist there, curated and free of the surrounding chaos. Y'all, this country is looking extremely bleak at the moment. Related: So, to distract us from all the doom and gloom, I found this week's funniest Black Twitter tweets because, as the saying goes, "Laughter is the best medicine." Let's get into it: 1. 2. 3. Related: 4. 5. 6. Related: 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Related: 12. 13. 14. 15. That's all for this week! Let us know which tweet was your favorite, and check out last week's roundup below if you missed it. I Just Choked On My Spit Laughing So Hard At These 18 Black Twitter Tweets From The Week Also in Internet Finds: Also in Internet Finds: Also in Internet Finds:
Mail & Guardian
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Mail & Guardian
Diary: Comedy Jam at The Houghton Hotel in August, Vuma Levin returns with new album Allegories, Black Coffee at Hey Neighbour
Jozi jokes: Comedy Jam will be on at the Houghton Hotel on Friday 2 August. Comedy Jam – one night, five legends Johannesburg, South Africa — get ready for an explosive night of laughter as Comedy Jam hits the stage at The Houghton Hotel on Friday, 2 August. This one-night-only event assembles five titans of South African stand-up: Schalk Bezuidenhout, David Kau, Alan Committie, Mark Banks and Chris Forrest. From Bezuidenhout's quirky charm to Kau's fearless satire, Committie's theatrical brilliance, Banks' political punchlines and Forrest's deadpan gold — it's a comedy lover's dream. Set in the heart of Jozi, Comedy Jam is a celebration of the city's legacy as the home of boundary-breaking humour. Expect world-class stand-up, a full bar and food service and convenient underground parking — all in the luxurious surroundings of The Houghton. Seating is limited, so grab your tickets at Must-see moment in modern jazz with Vuma Levin Award-winning South African jazz guitarist Vuma Levin returns with Allegories, a genre-defying new album launching on 11 July. Developed through a Confluences Grant from ProHelvetia, and recorded in Switzerland's legendary Studio Flon, the project is a collaboration between Levin and top European musicians under the Swiss–South African ensemble In Motion. To launch the album, Levin is on a tour of Makhanda, Johannesburg and Cape Town this month, joined by renowned percussionist Gontse Makhene. Tickets are available from Webtickets, Fixr and Quicket. Black Coffee to perform at Pretoria music festival Caffeine rush: Black Coffee will be the main attraction on day two of the Hey Neighbour event. Get ready, neighbours — the next wave of the Hey Neighbour 2025 line-up has officially landed, and it's bringing serious heat, soul and unstoppable energy. Headlining this electric drop is global house music icon Black Coffee, returning to home soil with surprise guests in tow. From Ibiza to Coachella, he's set stages ablaze across the world and now he's coming to remind us why SA leads the global soundscape. Backing him up is a stacked day-two local lineup that hits all the right notes: Elaine's smooth R&B, Muzi's futuristic Zulu bounce, Khuli Chana's unmatched Motswako fire and Sun-EL Musician's transcendent Afro-electronic vibes. Add in deep house pioneers, amapiano angels and genre-pushing DJs, and you've got a soundtrack built for unforgettable memories. Happening 30 and 31 August at Legends Adventure Farm, Pretoria, this is more than a music festival — it's a movement.
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
25 Hilarious Tweets That Helped Me Laugh Through The Pain Of Everything Else Going On In The News Cycle
Hello. Truly, I really have no other words right now, so how about we fill the empty space with some laughter? Here are 25 silly little tweets from the week that reminded me people are still funny despite it all: 1. Related: 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. got called a psychopath for saying i want to marry an orphan so i don't have to deal with in-laws — mal🇵🇷 (@mvlqk) June 25, 2025 Twitter: @mvlqk 7. Related: 8. 9. 10. 11. (Note: Image has been replaced with a similar image due to copyright restrictions.) 12. Related: 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Related: 19. 20. 'love island' 'labubu' 'addison rae' 'f1 the movie' — lis ☭ (@iamagodard) June 30, 2025 HBO / @iamagodard / Via Twitter: @iamagodard 21. in my boyfriend's apartment alone wearing his clothes, eating his food, watching his tv — Mikey (@mikeyisbrown) June 30, 2025 20th Television Animation / @mikeyisbrown / Via Twitter: @mikeyisbrown 22. 23. 24. 25. That's all for this week — as always, for more funny tweets feel free to peruse our most recent roundups: I Am 97.33% Convinced These Funny Tweets From The Week Are The Small Joy We All Need Right Now 27 Funny Tweets From The Week That Sentttttt Me Into Orbit Also in Internet Finds: Also in Internet Finds: Also in Internet Finds:
BBC News
02-07-2025
- Science
- BBC News
Laughter makes bonobo monkeys more cheerful, scientists say
Have you ever heard the saying: "Laughter is the best medicine"? For years, it's been known that when we laugh our bodies release chemicals called endorphins - hormones which make us feel scientists say it could also be the case in the animal kingdom found that bonobos become more cheerful after they hear other bonobos giggling! What did scientists find? Researchers at Indiana University in the US trained bonobos to recognise two different boxes - a black box and a white box. The black box always contained a delicious food snack and white one was always scientists had trained the bonobos to always approach the black boxes and to avoid the white ones, they decided to add in a third box into the mix. Experts would then either play the sound of bonobo laughter or a control sound - before presenting the chimpanzees with a grey box that they had never seen Sasha Winkler, the lead author of the study, explained: "We know that other apes, like chimpanzees, have contagious laughter during play."We were wondering if that behaviour could be explained by positive emotions produced from the sound itself," she added. The team found that the chimpanzees were much more likely to approach the grey box after hearing the sound of bonobo laughter, treating them like a reward box - which indicated a more optimistic expectation of finding a say their results suggest that hearing laughter brings about positive emotions and may therefore influence bonobos' decision also think it could help offer clues about how humans developed emotion."Studies like ours can help to untangle the evolutionary building blocks of empathy, communication, and cooperation in humans," Dr Winker added.
