And the best dad award goes to this guy, who dances to cheer up his son at the hospital

• One Texas dad was recently captured on video performing a hilarious dance routine outside his son's hospital window to cheer him up while he's inside receiving cancer treatment.
• The young boy has been receiving treatment to fight leukemia, according to news reports, and since only one parent can be in the hospital at a time to visit the child, because of coronavirus regulations, the father stayed aside.
• The video of the father dancing was posted to YouTube by Cook Children's Medical Center.
  

Earlier this year, John Oliver, the host of Last Week Tonight on HBO, decided to stop by CBS' The Late Show With Stephen Colbert for a hilarious reunion of the two longtime friends who are also both alums of Comedy Central's The Daily Show. Oliver's appearance was virtual, of course, as the coronavirus pandemic was fully underway at that point, back in late March. During the conversation, Oliver made a quip about how this is such a "sub-optimal time to be a human being," given the state of the world and the slew of utterly depressing news.

To a degree, that's still the case. The pandemic has gotten an order of magnitude worse, more than 200,000 Americans have now died from it (per Johns Hopkins University), and the country's political situation is as maddening as ever. One thing that helps is to look for and celebrate good news when you can find it, which is something that one Texas dad has inadvertently helped out with -- it involves dancing in an attempt to cheer up his son who's in the hospital for cancer treatment.

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