INTRODUCTION

The fact that laughter has always been the best medicine can never be over-emphasized. In the  present times of strain and stress and care, to laugh and to make other laugh seems to be the best charity. Humour is the exclusive possession of we human beings. It' laughter and a sense of humour which separates man from beasts, birds and other living beings. Cracking jokes about people around us and ourselves has been a time honoured pastime. One cannot be always sober and serious. The tongue in cheek view of life brings into focus our comic aspect of existence. Sometimes we come across a joke full of insight and wisdom par excellence. A deft flick of the humorous and witty tongue can sometome diffuse and reduce the most serious and tense situation to gales of laughter. Jokes are sometimes cynical, sometimes acid sharp and witty but often funny and harmless. Life is too full of cares. Come horseman, let us learn to pass by life and death with sense of humour fraught with wisdom.