"Cosmo, call me a cab." "OK, you're a cab."

Cosmo:

Though the world is so full of a number things,

I know we should all be as happy as

But are we?

No, definitely no, positively no.

Decidedly no. Mm mm.

Short people have long faces and

Long people have short faces.

Big people have little humor

And little people have no humor at all!

And in the words of that immortal buddy

Samuel J. Snodgrass, as he was about to be lead

To the guillotine:

Make 'em laugh

Make 'em laugh

Don't you know everyone wants to laugh?

(Ha ha!)

My dad said "Be an actor, my son

But be a comical one

They'll be standing in lines

For those old honky tonk monkeyshines"

Now you could study Shakespeare and be quite elite

And you can charm the critics and have nothin' to eat

Just slip on a banana peel

The world's at your feet

Make 'em laugh

Make 'em laugh

Make 'em laugh

Make 'em...

Make 'em laugh

Don't you know everyone wants to laugh?

My grandpa said go out and tell 'em a joke

But give it plenty of hoke

Make 'em roar

Make 'em scream

Take a fall

But a wall

Split a seam

You start off by pretending

You're a dancer with grace

You wiggle 'till they're

Giggling all over the place

And then you get a great big custard pie in the face

Make 'em laugh

Make 'em laugh

Make 'em laugh

Make 'em laugh

Make 'em laugh

Don't you know... all the...wants..?

My dad...

They'll be standing in lines

For those old honky tonk monkeyshines

Make 'em laugh

Make 'em laugh

Don't you know everyone wants to laugh?

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha

Ah ha ha ha ha ha

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Make 'em laugh, ah ah!

Make 'em laugh, ah ah!

Make 'em laugh, ah ah!

 

Make 'em laugh

Make 'em laugh

Make 'em laugh!

-Make 'Em Laugh, Donald O'Connor.

Film: Singin' in the Rain (1952)

      Easily one of my most favourite films, one of my favourite characters and one of my favourite songs ever. Unfortunately I couldn't find a picture of when Cosmo, played by the irreplacable Donald O'Connor, jumps of that wall (you know what I'm talking about).

       This song makes me so happy. It's exactly why I believe in films so much... as much sorrow and horrors and whatever else happens to us and around us, they have the power to always make us laugh and forget our grief and anguish for a while.