Making others laugh.

Not everyone was born to do this, but it's clear that Danny was, and he didn't let us down.

When we laugh, though, it's important to do so in the right spirit. It's a tough line to draw. Danny wouldn't have been as funny if he didn't have Tourette's syndrome, to be honest and obvious. Is it right to laugh at someone with an affliction?

I would argue that Danny was a reasonably intelligent human being capable of making his own decisions. He made the decision to allow people to film him. Some people watch these videos and see a disabled person as he's cruelly exploited. It would be inappropriate of me to presume exactly what he thinks and feels about his situation, but when I watch him put on his own personal Unsolved Mysteries show, I see a man comfortable in his own skin who wouldn't have used the words "suffers from" when describing his experience with Tourette's. That might not be true at all, and if it's not, he sure did a great job of putting it aside at his own expense so that we could laugh more easily.

I laughed out loud at almost every clip I put into these videos. The scenes below, though hilarious, are not necessarily the funniest to me. Rather, I tried to find the best examples of his propensity toward giving us something to laugh about.

Tit dirt. Holy shit, is that ever funny.

 

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