The World Laughter Games

TORONTO COULD GET THE WORLD LAUGHTER GAMES

GAME DEMO TAKE PLACE SATURDAY NOV 21 AT THE BLOOR CINEMA

BEFORE THE HILARIOUS FILM LAUGHOLOGY

For more game information, please email: Hey@laughology.info

Interviews and information requests contact Sonja Andic 416-316-7109

Toronto could be the home of an international laughing skills competition - potentially the Olympics of Laughter.

The Just for Laughs Festival is looking at a World Laughter Games event in Toronto, depending on the upcoming demonstration of the games this Saturday November 21.


Competitive laughter games will be demoed at this Saturday’s screening of Laughology - a documentary about the contagiousness of laughter, featuring the man with the most contagious laugh on earth. Before the screening there will be demonstrations of the games. Champion laughers will compete and some audience members will be invited to compete on the spot.
Director of Laughology, Albert Nerenberg, got the game idea while traveling the world working on the documentary. The sudden rise in laughter exercise techniques have created new laughter games, which when exercised, improve health, fitness and mood.

“It could be significant,” says Nerenberg. “Not only do laughter games promote health, immunity and good humor, they’re funny, because laughter is contagious.”

Nerenberg demoed one of the games, the ‘Laugh Off’ at this year’s Idea City and it brought down the house.

The ‘Laugh Off’ is a game where two contestants go head-to-head laughing at each other. The person who makes the other person seem funnier wins. “This game can be quite extreme. People turn red, split their pants, and fall off the stage.” says current Canadian Champion Victoria Danyluk.

There are also individual competitions, like the ‘Most Contagious Laugh’ – the person who gets the most laughs out of an audience simply by laughing. And the ‘Evil Villain Laugh’ made famous by Hollywood star Mike Myers.

Laughter competitions are new and different from comedy competitions. There have been small laughter competitions in India and Thailand, but no one has tried to create an international competition, although one is certainly coming.

“The Just for Laughs festival is interested in the event,” says Nerenberg. “Because the idea is so new, they want to see how it will work.”


Trailer for Laughology is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ScWC0N6e8


THE WORLD LAUGHTER GAMES

Canadian Champions will be crowned at the event.

Want to compete? hey@laughology.info

Saturday November 21, 7:00 pm at the Bloor Cinema

$8 includes admission to the Toronto Laughology Premiere

7:00 – 7:30 Game – 7:30 to 8:45 Laughology documentary

The half-hour demonstration will take place before the screening of Laughology.

MEDIA CONTACT: Sonja Andic 416-316-7109

EMAIL: hey@laughology.info / laughologyinfo@gmail.com



WEBSITE: http://www.laughology.info










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