Name: Laughing with Purpose
Uploaded: 2016-05-29T03:47:07.000Z
Duration: 4 min 38 s
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Past simple

Did you know walking is an Olympic sport? You walk,

training for the Olympics my entire life and didn't even know. Like, I'm just, you just walk.

How do you even get excited about walking? Like, "man did you see what he did? He had

then he put his right foot in front of it. That stuff was

awesome. He's amazing. The Bible always says that laughter is good like a medicine.

People would always quote that to me. I've seen it I don't know how many times. And then one day, God

why don't you take it to the sick?" That is one of the

hugest revelations that I've had since I've been a Christian.

I've been on all the late-night TV shows - I had a great time but it wasn't until I

to giving them an opportunity to laugh where everything changed because now this gift

that I have - it's not about me getting, it's about me

in Montrose, Colorado at a place called the Dolphin House.

Now the reason it's called the Dophin House is because

they take care of abused children. Dolphins - whenever a dolphin gets hurt,

other dolphins swim around it to protect it

so until, until it's better. They take of children who were being abused by their

And I walk in there and I get the stories of these kids.

And this grandmother tells me about her grandson who was so afraid of his

like, everywhere he goes he wears a Spiderman costume, like

One of the things his mom has been doing to him - she's been pulling out his toe nails.

then I hear all these other kids' stories, too. Then they bring them all in so I

can do jokes for them and their caregivers.

if it had not been for God changing my mindset about comedy

to giving people an opportunity to laugh versus

getting laughter, I'm telling you there is no way

I would have been able to do the show. I had actually become physically sick after a while

this thing had been going on, so not only am I physically sick,

but I'm down and I'm, and I'm hearing these stories - but I have to do this show because

these kids need to laugh. So I go up on stage

and sitting right up front is Spiderman in full costume.

He's sitting on his grandmother's lap, and he's, he's clinching her

with his back to me. And I get up on stage

and I start doing jokes. Slowly but surely,

people start laughing. And about 20 minutes  in it, people are laughing pretty well,

and then I hear a voice and the voice says, "my name is Ronan."

And then this little boy pulls off his mask,

And the whole place is like, frozen - sitting still,

like in shock. He pulls off his mask, and he introduces himself to me as to say,

He's in a room where everyone's laughing, and there's no telling if he's

And suddenly, he felt free enough to take off his mask, and

I can't help but think every time I do a show, whether it be late-night TV,

whether it be at a church or wherever - that there's probably somebody in the room

on some level that could be taking off their mask.

It's not about me getting the laughs from them; it's about me showing up with my gift

being willing to give it to the people. Because I have a gift, my job is to present it to

I feel like should have it. And if they don't receive it, it doesn't matter. I've still done

and wholeheartedly because someone in that room

needs to laugh - they're going through a hard time or they need some sort of revelation that

because I've opened up the room with laughter.

So that's my assignment. That's what I'm about. That's what I want to do. That's why I love to bring

You should never argue with your wife because if you win,

you are married to a loser. Why is that so funny?