Funny Movies for Fibromyalgia
Our Fibromyalgia Support team recommends “AFI’s 100 Funniest American Movies” for you to “Laugh away your pain!”. We have seen that fibromyalgia sufferers find laughter and humor to be a positive fibromyalgia support when dealing with the stress and chronic pain of FIBROMYALGIA.
Norman Cousins drew the attention of the medical community to the pain-reducing power of humor in his book Anatomy of an Illness. A spinal disease left him in almost constant pain, but he quickly discovered while watching comedy films that belly laughter eased his pain. In his last book, Head First: The Biology of Hope, he noted that 10 minutes of belly laughter would give him two hours of pain-free sleep. Over a dozen studies have now documented that humor does have the power to reduce pain in many patients, being a positive Fibromyalgia support.
Given all the evidence that watching a humorous video strengthens different components of the immune system, it makes sense that individuals who have a better developed sense of humor – those who find more humor in their everyday life, seek out humor more often or laugh more – have a stronger immune system because they get more of the benefits offered by watching a comedy video, exercising their sense of humor more frequently. Consistent with this expectation, three studies have shown that individuals with higher scores on a sense of humor test show higher “baseline levels”, a stronger immune system. “The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick.” (Bernie Siegel, M.D.)
Norman Cousins drew the attention of the medical community to the pain-reducing power of humor in his book Anatomy of an Illness. A spinal disease left him in almost constant pain, but he quickly discovered while watching comedy films that belly laughter eased his pain. In his last book, Head First: The Biology of Hope, he noted that 10 minutes of belly laughter would give him two hours of pain-free sleep. Over a dozen studies have now documented that humor does have the power to reduce pain in many patients, being a positive Fibromyalgia support.
Given all the evidence that watching a humorous video strengthens different components of the immune system, it makes sense that individuals who have a better developed sense of humor – those who find more humor in their everyday life, seek out humor more often or laugh more – have a stronger immune system because they get more of the benefits offered by watching a comedy video, exercising their sense of humor more frequently. Consistent with this expectation, three studies have shown that individuals with higher scores on a sense of humor test show higher “baseline levels”, a stronger immune system. “The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick.” (Bernie Siegel, M.D.)
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TITLE |
DIRECTOR |
| 1 | Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder |
| 2 | Tootsie | Sydney Pollack |
| 3 | Dr. Strangelove | Stanley Kubrick |
| 4 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen |
| 5 | Duck Soup | Leo McCarey |
| 6 | Blazing Saddles | Mel Brooks |
| 7 | M*A*S*H | Robert Altman |
| 8 | It Happened One Night | Frank Capra |
| 9 | The Graduate | Mike Nichols |
| 10 | Airplane! | David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, & Jim Abrahams |
| 11 | The Producers | Mel Brooks |
| 12 | A Night At The Opera | Sam Wood |
| 13 | Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks |
| 14 | Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks |
| 15 | The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor |
| 16 | Singin’ In The Rain | Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen |
| 17 | The Odd Couple | Gene Saks |
| 18 | The General | Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman |
| 19 | His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks |
| 20 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder |
| 21 | A Fish Called Wanda | Charles Crichton & John Cleese |
| 22 | Adam’s Rib | George Cukor |
| 23 | When Harry Met Sally… | Rob Reiner |
| 24 | Born Yesterday | George Cukor |
| 25 | The Gold Rush | Charles Chaplin |
| 26 | Being There | Hal Ashby |
| 27 | There’s Something About Mary | Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly |
| 28 | Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman |
| 29 | This Is Spinal Tap | Rob Reiner |
| 30 | Arsenic And Old Lace | Frank Capra |
| 31 | Raising Arizona | Joel Coen & Ethan Coen |
| 32 | The Thin Man | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 33 | Modern Times | Charles Chaplin |
| 34 | Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis |
| 35 | Harvey | Henry Koster |
| 36 | National Lampoon’s Animal House | John Landis |
| 37 | The Great Dictator | Charles Chaplin |
| 38 | City Lights | Charles Chaplin |
| 39 | Sullivan’s Travels | Preston Sturges |
| 40 | It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World | Stanley Kramer |
| 41 | Moonstruck | Norman Jewison |
| 42 | Big | Penny Marshall |
| 43 | American Graffiti | George Lucas |
| 44 | My Man Godfrey | Gregory La Cava |
| 45 | Harold And Maude | Hal Ashby |
| 46 | Manhattan | Woody Allen |
| 47 | Shampoo | Hal Ashby |
| 48 | A Shot In The Dark | Blake Edwards |
| 49 | To Be or Not To Be | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 50 | Cat Ballou | Elliot Silverstein |
| 51 | The Seven Year Itch | Billy Wilder |
| 52 | Ninotchka | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 53 | Arthur | Steve Gordon |
| 54 | The Miracle Of Morgan’s Creek | Preston Sturges |
| 55 | The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges |
| 56 | Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein | Charles Barton |
| 57 | Diner | Barry Levinson |
| 58 | It’s A Gift | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 59 | A Day At The Races | Sam Wood |
| 60 | Topper | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 61 | What’s Up, Doc? | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 62 | Sherlock, Jr. | Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle & Buster Keaton |
| 63 | Beverly Hills Cop | Martin Brest |
| 64 | Broadcast News | James L. Brooks |
| 65 | Horse Feathers | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 66 | Take The Money And Run | Woody Allen |
| 67 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Chris Columbus |
| 68 | The Awful Truth | Leo McCarey |
| 69 | Bananas | Woody Allen |
| 70 | Mr. Deeds Goes To Town | Frank Capra |
| 71 | Caddyshack | Harold Ramis |
| 72 | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | H.C. Potter |
| 73 | Monkey Business | Howard Hawks |
| 74 | 9 To 5 | Colin Higgins |
| 75 | She Done Him Wrong | Lowell Sherman |
| 76 | Victor/Victoria | Blake Edwards |
| 77 | The Palm Beach Story | Preston Sturges |
| 78 | Road To Morocco | David Butler |
| 79 | The Freshman | Andrew Bergman |
| 80 | Sleeper | Woody Allen |
| 81 | The Navigator | Donald Crisp & Buster Keaton |
| 82 | Private Benjamin | Howard Zieff |
| 83 | Father Of The Bride | Charles Shyer |
| 84 | Lost In America | Albert Brooks |
| 85 | Dinner At Eight | George Cukor |
| 86 | City Slickers | Ron Underwood |
| 87 | Fast Times At Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling |
| 88 | Beetlejuice | Tim Burton |
| 89 | The Jerk | Carl Reiner |
| 90 | Woman Of The Year | George Stevens |
| 91 | The Heartbreak Kid | Elaine May |
| 92 | Ball Of Fire | Howard Hawks |
| 93 | Fargo | Ethan Coen & Joel Coen |
| 94 | Auntie Mame | Morton DaCosta |
| 95 | Silver Streak | Arthur Hiller |
| 96 | Sons Of The Desert | William A. Seiter |
| 97 | Bull Durham | Ron Shelton |
| 98 | The Court Jester | Melvin Frank & Norman Panama |
| 99 | The Nutty Professor | Jerry Lewis |
| 100 | Good Morning, Vietnam | Barry Levinson |
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