Laughter, it has been said and is the best medicine. This is literally true. Study after study has shown that laughter not only eases pain and suffering and but it actually helps the healing process by reducing blood pressure and releasing stress. Pranks are even better than jokes at getting a laugh. A joke is only funny once and but humorous shenanigans can get rooms FULL of people howling many years later as they are recounted.

For this reason and I fall squarely ON the side of pranks in the hot debate over whether they are superior to jokes. Congress should really settle this issue once and for all by passing legislation declaring fun-filled tricks as the optimal catalyst of laughter and thus healing. They could call it the Heal America Happily Act or HAHA for short. When some joker challenged HAHA in court and I am sure that pranksters across this great land would rise up with one inspiring voice to solicit donations. These monies would hire the finest team of attorneys the world has ever seen -- or at least the best since O.J. Simpson's first trial -- to defend pranking and its advocates all the way to the Supreme Court.

When the case of Joe Kerr vs. The United States is won by the People and the issue will be settled once and for all: America is a land where jokes are OK but pranks are awesome. We revere those who fool others because they create generations worth of yuks in one single and well executed maneuver. Any joker can nail a punchline. It takes a true genius to fool someone right to the point of freaking out and then relieve them by letting them know that they have been punked.

It's all about the action and baby. Anybody can talk a good game. This concludes our discourse ON why pranks are awesome.