How many places do you walk into laughing? You can’t help it at the National Comedy Center in Chautauqua, New York, which we visited as part of an Empire State Road Trip in upstate New York. Flashes of comedic movies, TV shows, and stand-ups assault your inner comedian as you enter the National Comedy Center, and you feel one with a larger-than-life Rodney Dangerfield. Then a sign comes on reminding you to wash your hands—and you stop laughing—but just for a moment. Instead of the pre-COVID wristband, you get a card that provides interactive capability during the virus and a stylus allowing you to touch screens. And you allow yourself to start laughing again. The National Comedy Center began as a long-ago vision of the legendary Lucille Ball—a home-grown Jamestown girl (the small town adjacent to Chautauqua), she was born, bred, and buried here—for her hometown to become a destination …