But homes with Alzheimer’s require tremendous bravery. Not to diminish the founding fathers, setting up a country, yeah, you win.

Only in Hollywood, folks.īut enough about hair, the point is that I never thought about “home of the brave,” in a less sweeping way before.

Later the host told us that she was the model for the red tresses of that girl in Brave. It will ruin my hair!” Naturally this set off another round of Don Rickles’ like barbs. “I can’t come out,” she finally said, “my hair. A woman with a full head of curls listened to the show from the doorway of the house, for which she was teased mercilessly by the comic. Side bar: Laughter On Call, was hired for an outdoor birthday party in a private home, it was a rare humid night in Los Angeles. You don’t think much about bravery in everyday life, unless you’re reading a children’s book or watching a Pixar movie, they always seem to find a place to hit that note, like the film about the redheaded girl with all the curls, appropriately named Brave. What is absolutely essential though is courage, the bravery if you will, to accept it and deal with it and, from our point of view, help people find whatever moments of joy are possible along the way. Because it’s not a disease that can be cured for now. One laugh at a time.” The more exposure I’ve had to the disease of Alzheimer’s and the people who show up for it, I realized that hope is nice, but not really relevant. So much so that you may have noticed we changed the tag line for Laughter On Call from “Hope. I have been thinking a lot about bravery, more specifically courage, these last few months. Posted at 16:24h in Events, News, Stories by loc-adminįunny how lyrics can resonate differently depending on where you are in your life.

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