Surfing the cable subscription ocean, the familiar waves keep rolling in.

There are the ripples that flow of shows you’ve already seen, other shows that follow the exact formula of the shows you’ve already seen and the ones that you can’t stand watching for over 30 seconds.

Every now and then you find a pearl.

We were fortunate to find one in the Fox comedy series The Mick.

The Mick is an American sitcom television series broadcast created by Dave Chernin and John Chernin.

The series stars Kaitlin Olson who also serves as executive producer. The series premiered on January 1, 2017, and resumed in its regular Tuesday night slot on January 3, 2017.

On January 11, 2017, Fox picked up the series for a full season of 17 episodes.

Yippee!

Riding a surf board from channel to channel we stumbled upon this gem and from the moment we saw Sofia Black-D’Elia playing a stuck up, sardonic, spoiled rich teenage princess, we couldn’t stop laughing.

Never underestimate the power of laughter.

“We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”… Ellen DeGeneres

Have you ever enjoyed her work?

She is best known for her roles as Tea Marvelli in Skins, Sage Spence in Gossip Girl and Andrea Cornish in The Night Of. As of 2017 Black-D’Elia stars as Sabrina on the FOX comedy The Mick.

When she was seventeen, Black-D’Elia was cast in her first major gig on the soap opera All My Children as the recurring character Bailey.

In 2010, she booked the role of Tea on the MTV adaptation of the hit British teen drama Skins.

Starting in the fall of 2012, D’Elia played Sage Spence in the sixth and final season of Gossip Girl. She also portrayed Jessie in the Michael Bay-produced time travel thriller Project Almanac, which was released in January 2015.

In 2016, she appeared in the HBO miniseries The Night Of.

What is so fun and funny about her is that she is superb at playing beautiful young girls that no one likes.

At the enjoyable site refinery29.com they hit the polished fingernail on the head. “Sofia Black-D’Elia loves playing characters who are the most obnoxious people in the scene.

Playing someone so unlike herself is where she shines, even if she knows she couldn’t stand these girls in real life. Or, in her words: “I think it’s always fun to play those kinds of people that you feel really familiar with and especially when you can’t stand them.”

In her latest role in The Mick, a new comedy on FOX premiering January 1 at 8 p.m., she plays one of her most out-there characters yet: Sabrina Pemberton, the oldest child in a wealthy family that is turned upside down when her parents are arrested for embezzlement.”

We couldn’t stop laughing.

“Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.”.. Kevin Hart

In an interview with whowhatwear.com, she speaks of her next project, Ben Hur. “Yes, so it takes place in year one in Palestine. It’s a remake of Ben-Hur. It’s really cool for me, because I’ve never played a Jewish person before. I’m Jewish, so I feel I’m getting in touch with some roots I haven’t been acquainted with. It’s shaping up to be such an amazing cast, and I’m really excited they are bringing me onboard.”

We will keep an eye on her progress.

In our competitive female submission wrestling industry Penny Barber is one of the funniest grapplers that we have ever met.

Her wrestling is sexy and effective. http://grapplingstars.com/fvsf-wrestling-videos/

Her humor keeps you in stiches.

She would be wonderful to have a session with too. http://www.barbarycoastgrapplers.com/inquiries/

Laughter is some of the best medicine in the world.

In an October 2016 issue of Psychology Today they report on some well-known facts about laughter.

• laughter functions to create social bonds
• laughing increases our short-term pain tolerance
• a small dose of humor can increase immunological functioning
• laughter during negotiations increases the likelihood of small concessions

In a January 2016 issue they add, “Rana Esseily (2015) conducted research on babies as young 18 months old. There are many research studies that show that when children laugh, it enhances their attention, motivation, perception, memory, and learning. But this study was the first to try out the idea on children as young as 18 months old.

The children in the group who did a task in a way that made them laugh learned the target actions more than those in the control group who were not laughing during the learning period. Esseily hypothesizes that laughter may help with learning because dopamine released while laughing enhances learning. Other research points to the idea that it works on adults too!”

So please keep enjoying the power of other people’s sense of humor and maybe work on developing a better one yourself.

We have a visiting writer with some wonderful suggestions.

8 Considerable Reasons To Develop A Sense Of Humor

By Kurt A Tasche     Submitted On August 06, 2016

If you have an interest in enhancing your health, brain, social life, and state of mind, attempt to laugh more. Having a good sense of humor is beneficial to several elements of your life. A well-developed sense of humor has incredible advantages. Chuckling and smiling aren’t frivolous activities. So, stop being so serious and discover why humor is so important.

A sense of humor has numerous benefits:

1. Reinforce your health. The more you laugh, the less regularly you’ll be sick. Studies have actually revealed that laughing enhances the body’s immune system. It likewise decreases your risk of high blood pressure, which is great for your heart and brain. It’s possible that laughter can lower your medical costs.
2. A funny bone is attractive. Who does not like to laugh? We’re instinctively drawn to individuals that laugh easily. Everybody wants to have fun and release their stress.

If you’re enjoyable to be with and you understand ways to make others laugh, you’ll find yourself surrounded by others who likewise have a common sense of humor.

3. Reduce stress. Day-to-day living can be pretty demanding. There are lots of ways to relieve tension, however few feel as good as a good laugh. With a common sense of humor, it’s easy to find various reasons to laugh about life. A great laugh will permit you to forget your difficulties for a little while.
4. Boost your mood. It feels great to laugh, and the good feelings can last for hours afterwards. Humor can reroute your focus from the negative happenings in your life to something more pleasurable.
5. Boost your social life. Whether you’re trying to find brand-new friends or searching for the man or woman of your dreams, having a funny bone, or sense of humor, is important. Think about the most popular people you know. Are they upbeat and do they smile easily? Or do they do not have a good sense of humor?
6. Benefit others. Your state of mind, words, and actions affect those around you. When you’re in a bad mood, it adversely affects others. Your smiling, pleased face and state of mind are uplifting and lighten up the moods of those around you.
7. Reinforce your relationships. Is it possible to have a relationship that would not take advantage of your sense of humor? Laughing together will bring you closer. You’ll find that your relationships with your neighbors, pals, family, and coworkers take advantage of your ability to laugh and appreciate the lighter side of life.
8. Increase your intelligence. At the minimum, you’ll learn more quickly. A study demonstrated that laughing stimulates the learning centers of the brain. Promoting those areas regularly is believed to boost the ability to learn and retain new information. Laughing might assist you to get a scholarship to Harvard.

Laughing is good for you. Your sense of humor effects your health, state of mind, social life, and those around you. They say that, “Laughter is the best medicine.” Now you have a better understanding as to why that statement is true. Discover the humor in life and keep your state of mind light. There are no benefits to expecting the worst and experiencing negative moods.

Spend time with others who take pleasure in laughing. Make it a point to take pleasure in funny movies or watch your favorite comics. Your laughter helps you and those around you. Feel free to laugh more.

Kurt Tasche is a martial artist, Internet entrepreneur and motivational coach who writes articles and produces videos on the subjects of marketing and personal development. You can connect with him on his Facebook Page here.

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