Need a good laugh? Here are ten instant self-help ideas:

1. Picture your boss constipated on the toilet.

2. Imagine Homer Simpson having fun with Plopper the Spider-Pig.

3. Imagine any politician being truthful.

4. Combine Sheldon Cooper lecturing self-importantly with helium.

5. Ask the bag lady on the public bus to tickle you.

6. Watch a few ordinary tourists.

7. Smoke a doobie.

8. Inhale nitrous oxide.

9. Watch that wildly hilarious video of goofballs telephone pole dancing.

10. Manipulate your own funny bone.