After all, it is National Lets Have A Laugh Day tomorrow, quickly followed by the International Day of Happiness a day later.
If you need some inspiration, enjoy these uplifting photos from the Shields Gazette archives.
It’s a barrel of fun and memories from 1966 to 2019.
5. Fun in the St Oswald's kitchen
A March 1991 scene and it shows St Oswald's cooks and cleaners having fun for Conic Relief. Pictured are Olive Ward, Isabelle Titterington, Sandara Oxberry, Jean Park, Margaret Henderson, Jessie Morris, Carol Robinson and Jennifer Campbell. | SG Photo: Shields Gazette
6. Red noses at Brinkburn
Brinkburn Comprehensive School teachers Kirsten Berry and Lynda Pinder were pictured at a Comic Relief fundraising event in 2003. Does this bring back happy memories? | SG Photo: Shields Gazette
7. On Cleadon hills
Laughs galore in 2004 but are you in the picture in this wintry Shields Gazette archive photo? | SG Photo: TR
8. Tommy helps out
Tommy the Trumpeter always raises a smile, and he certainly did when he opened the new garden at Westoe Crown Primary School, with pupils Will Orr and Grace Carr, in 2010. Photo: Tim Richardson