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=What Makes Me Laugh by Authors Who Make Us Laugh!!=

"I laugh any time I see little kids giggling...I laugh at any good joke; and I laugh at a lot of bad jokes. Shoot, I laugh at almost anything."
 * Chris Crutcher**, author of **//Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes//**

"Reading (and writing about) characters' excruciating embarassing social gaffes always make me laugh! Which is awful, since goodness knows I've committed enough of them!"
 * Meg Cabot**, author of **//The Princess Diaries//**

"...humor is how I cope. If I couldn't laugh when things get sticky, I would loose my mind. So I guess I would say what makes me laugh the most is humor where it does not belong. Humor in dark places. Humor in the midst of fear, grief, horror, I find exhilarating, life affirming."
 * Chris Lynch**, author of **//Gold Dust//**

"The unexpected makes me laugh. Once when my daughter was little, we met the girlfriend of my son's math teacher. She wasn't anything like we'd imagined her. Later at lunch, still pondering what the math teacher's attraction to this woman was, my daughter burst out: 'Maybe she took a bullet for him!' "
 * Dorian Cirrone,** author of **//Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You//**

"A woman strutting out of the bathroom with toilet paper stuck to her heel gets me every time!"
 * Lisi Harrison**, author of **//The Clique//**

"...if I had to pick one, I'd say that I most often laugh at myself. All those mortifying moments in life that used to send me face-first into my pillow, now make me chuckle. Blush like mad, but chuckle..."
 * Mary Hogan,** author of **//The Serious Kiss//**

"What makes me laugh most is Congress. Dogs can also be very funny, but I have to give the edge to Congress."
 * Dave Barry,** author of **//Peter and the Starcatchers//**