This talk, in three acts with a prologue, intermission, and epilogue, will discuss the rarely funny topic of humor. The prologue will set the tone by providing definitive evidence about why women live longer than men. It is likely that none of the males in the audience will find this section remotely amusing. Act I will introduce the topic of humor and laughter with a few blonde stories thrown in to keep the audience awake. Act II will center on the brain's ability to detect and respond to humorous stimuli. This act will switch awkwardly between jokes and unpronounceable brain regions.

If the audience is smart, it will ignore most of this section and instead look forward to the intermission, where evidence on laughter in animals will be offered. Whether humor has a positive effect on one's physical health will be the focus of Act III. Much information will be presented in this section, but the speaker plans to avoid drawing any firm conclusions, regardless of pressure from the audience. The epilogue will be a poor attempt at tying together the entire topic of humor using high-brow philosophical constructs and low-brow jabs at our current and past presidents.

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Our first question will be asked by Don Kahle. Enough said.