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This humor and wellness podcast features stories, insights, and expert conversations about laughter as a healing modality, humor for mental health, and how humor helps reduce stress, anxiety, and burnout. Each episode offers uplifting humor, practical tools, and real-life applications of therapeutic humor as a coping mechanism for navigating hard moments with humanity and heart. The official podcast of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor

Our Rallying Cry: Humor Helps! https://www.aath.org/

The Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and application of humor to effect positive change. The strategic use of humor sparks connection, increases influence, improves communication and can be used as a competitive advantage in any industry. What’s more, humor provides innumerable benefits to our overall health and well-being, including reduced stress, greater resilience, decreased depressive symptoms, and even increased pain tolerance.

Laughbox is a therapeutic humor podcast exploring the science, psychology, and healing power of laughter. Sponsored by the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, Laughbox blends humor, wellness, mental health, and joy into meaningful conversations that help listeners feel lighter, more connected, and more resilient.

This humor and wellness podcast features stories, insights, and expert conversations about laughter therapy, humor for mental health, and how humor helps reduce stress, anxiety, and burnout. Each episode offers uplifting humor, practical tools, and real-life applications of therapeutic humor as a coping mechanism for navigating hard moments with humanity and heart.

If you’re searching for a podcast about laughter and healing, a funny podcast for stress relief, or a feel-good comedy podcast with purpose, Laughbox delivers science-backed joy with a human touch. We explore why humor is important, the benefits of laughter, and how playful connection supports emotional well-being, personal growth, and resilience.

Perfect for listeners interested in mental health podcasts, self-care podcasts, comedy podcasts, and podcasts about joy, Laughbox is for anyone who believes that laughter is not an escape, but a resource.

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Laughbox invites you to listen, laugh, and remember that even in serious times, humor heals, laughter connects, and joy is a skill we can practice together.

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Where laughter meets science, and humor becomes medicine.

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Episode 25: Interview with Yakov Smirnoff

Tuesday Oct 17, 2017

Tuesday Oct 17, 2017

You loved him on the stage and big screen and now you’ll love him at the AATH conference! What a treat it was for me to spend a little time talking with Yakov Smirnoff on this week’s Laughbox podcast!  Admittedly, I was a little nervous going into it but he quickly put me at ease as he shared some of his insights on laughter, love, and relationships.  I can’t wait to hear more in San Diego!  Listen in!
 
More on Yakov…
 
Fans who loved the comedy of Russian born entertainer Yakov Smirnoff throughout his expansive career on television, the silver screen and Broadway can experience the hilarity once again in “Happily Ever Laughter: The Neuroscience of Romantic Relationships.” In this new show, audience members are left in stitches as they enjoy Yakov’s insightful and laughter-filled philosophies on love, relationships and the differences between men and women. The New York Times called Yakov, “Warm-hearted, delightful and splendidly funny.”
 
A mainstay on the entertainment scene since the late 1970’s, Yakov co-starred in movies with Robin Williams in “Moscow on the Hudson“, Tom Hanks in “The Money Pit“, Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson in “Heartburn” and Richard Pryor in “Brewster’s Millions.” Yakov has also given command performances at the White House for several presidents and honored guests. President Ronald Reagan called Yakov, “a national treasure.” Smirnoff was a regular guest star on the award winning NBC sitcom, Night Court. He has been a popular guest of numerous national TV shows including the Tonight Show. You’ve seen him on HBO and enjoyed his humor in his critically acclaimed Showtime special, “Yakov Smirnoff from Moscow…Idaho.”  From 1993 to 2015, Yakov performed at his own two-thousand-seat theater in Branson, Missouri where he entertained over four and a half-million people and produced several outstanding award-winning shows. His comedic style is firmly grounded within his mission statement, “to experience happiness and teach it to the world with passion through comedy and sensitivity.“
 

Yakov’s quest to understand the science of happiness took him to the University of Pennsylvania where he earned a master’s degree in psychology in 2006 under the supervision of Dr. Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology. Today, in addition to being a comedian, Yakov is also an adjunct professor at Missouri State University where he teaches a course on happiness and laughter and is currently earning his Doctorate of Education in Organizational Leadership at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education & Psychology in Los Angeles, CA.

In “Happily Ever Laughter”, Yakov takes his comedy to a new level to showcase laughter’s effects on relationships and envisions a world where sadness and tears are replaced with love and laughter. Whether on stage or in a classroom, Yakov’s audiences love him. He is passionate about helping people extend the honeymoon stage of their relationships and “fall in love and laughter all over again.”

 
Check out Yakov on his website:  http://www.yakov.com/

Comments (2)
LaughBox

2 months ago

Thank you so much for your feedback! We are looking at improvements to Laughbox. we hope to hear from you again :) 😀

lou suSi

11 months ago

Lovin’ this episode and specifically Yakov Smirnoff’s insights about humor, laughter, and happiness in relationships in his research at Pepperdine ... absolutely phenomenal! 😀

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