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And to top off that imposing list of achievements he wrote that stirring war-time song, GOODBYE BROADWAY, HELLO FRANCE, and last year he authored LITTLE INCH-HIGH PEOPLE, the book for children that educators and child psychologists have stamped as the outstanding child's book in a decade. The author presents, Mr. Riesner:
Getting People to Laugh is a Serious Business by Charles F. Riesner
When my son Dink was two years old we got him a small and very lively fox terrier. And from then on every time he saw a horse he would become hysterical with laughter.
Picture the three of us, mother, father and baby driving down a country road, all laughing until the tears rolled down our cheeks, the baby laughing at a horse and mother and father in turn laughing at the baby.
Why were we laughing at the baby and why was the baby laughing at a horse ? The horse wasn't laughing, nor was he doing anything funny. He was just an ordinary horse, normally proportioned, grazing in a field.
What the baby saw was not a horse. To him that animal was a giant dog, but a lazy dog that moved slowly, not quickly and playfully like his little dog.
Later when Dink had grown and discovered for himself that the animal grazing in the pasture was not a big dog he no longer laughed at it. And that experience emphasized to me with increasing force three things most important to making people laugh. First, Superiority, second, Contrast, third, that there is no such a thing as Comedy as a thing in itself.
We knew that the baby had made a mistake, that he was laughing at something that was not funny in itself. In other words we were in on something he didn't know about and that knowledge made us feel superior to him. Any feeling of superiority is pleasant. Pleasure can express itself only in a joyful sound, or laughter, if there is enough reason for it. His hysterical laughter made his mistake that much bigger; the more he laughed the bigger his mistake became and the more reason we had to laugh.
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