This is a very interesting question to ponder. On the surface, the answer is blatantly obvious as "yes"; however, if we look into this more deeply, we see it is not as easy to make a sweeping judgment as this.

Comedy and Tragedy are often seen together as two masks. They are two sides of the same coin. You see a friend fall or slip. The first thing that happens is you get a laugh out of it, then say, "Dude, oh wow, that looks like that hurt!" "You should have seen yourself! Boom! You went down good!" Then only after that you ask if he is okay.

Look at how one hurts and other laughs. If you look at all comedy you are laughing at, someone is either getting hurt or acting less intelligent than you are. So does this comedy really raise our spiritual vibration when it is really causing us to see two things: comedy and beneath it, drama? Look at America's Funniest Home Videos". You see someone kicked "accidentally" in the groin; and while you watch, they play a funny cartoon noise, and everyone has a good laugh about it, including the guy sitting there in the audience watching that had happened to.

Think of jokes you know: are there any jokes that do not make fun of someone in someway?

These are just observations from a higher spiritual perspective, I am not saying I do not love watching comedy. Because I do like it: Everyone from Jackie Gleason, Three Stooges, Laural and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Jerry Lewis, Lucille Ball, and all the many to follow like Chris Farly, John Belushi, Jim Carry, Lesley Nielsen, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor. All of these and many more are very funny, but if you examine the issue more closely, they are either funny because they are getting hurt, or playing someone less intelligent than you.

When we think of it in this light, and you see someone in life less intelligent, deep down, you honestly tend to feel sorry for him/her. Your desire becomes to want to help that person more than you want to laugh at the person, because you know being laughed at hurts! This is why I believe Louie Anderson wrote the books "Dear Dad: Letters from an Adult Child" and "Goodbye Jumbo: Hello Cruel World", because underneath all of that funny man stuff is someone that is hurting.

So does comedy really raise our vibrational level when highest vibrational levels are unity? Consider comedy is based on separation, "Glad that is not me! But, wow is it funny it happened to him though!" and weigh this in your mind. Does it?

Good question Nikulas, in my experience you're absolutely right...once your desires have been rocketed into space, so to speak, the best ways to maintain a high level of optimism is to stay happy, play, do things that you really enjoy...and meditating does of course help you to maintain an even keel.

well i would say it always depend how you use it. are you laughing at someone else expense or are you laughing with someone? are you making a joke to pass a message or are you making a joke just for fun? are you laughing where most people would cry in negative situation? so you see it always depend how you use it. experience and enjoy.