Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Skelton frames humor not as escapism but as a practical ethic—a “credo” for meeting adversity. The advice to “look around you for happiness instead of sadness” suggests an intentional shift of attention: life contains both, but one can choose which to cultivate. His final sentence grounds the maxim in lived experience, implying that laughter can interrupt spirals of despair, restore perspective, and reopen possibilities for action. Coming from a professional comedian, the line also hints at comedy’s deeper function: transforming pain into something survivable and shareable, turning private unhappiness into a moment of resilience.