 Comedy: September 05, 2007 Issue [#1933] |
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This week: Edited by: Robert Waltz  
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"I had thought — I had been told — that a 'funny' thing is a thing of a goodness. It isn't. Not ever is it funny to the person it happens to. Like that sheriff without his pants. The goodness is in the laughing itself. I grok it is a bravery... and a sharing... against pain and sorrow and defeat."
- Valentine Michael Smith
(Robert Heinlein,
Stranger in a Strange Land) |
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Happy Birthday WDC!
I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who first said, "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Death is, of course, a great source of comedy material; we fear it, so we have to laugh at it. For some reason, though, hardly anyone laughs at taxes. Oh, we make jokes about it - periodically, some government bureaucrat comes up with a scheme to tax the air or some such, and we make her into a laughingstock - but underneath the levity is a certain nervousness, a fear even more profound than that of death; a fear, in short, stemming from the certain knowledge that somehow, someone is eventually going to find a way to tax air.
But I digress. There is one other certainty in this world, and that is birth - in some respects, the opposite of death, and, incidentally, something that someone's going to find a way to tax, sooner or later. It's a certainty, because somehow or another, everyone reading this was, at some point, born. And in honor of Writing.com's seventh birthday week (not to mention the even more important celebration next week of my third Writing.com birthday), this week's Comedy newsletter is all about birth, and birthdays.
The problem with me doing this is obvious: I've never given birth. I've never witnessed a birth, nor caused one to occur. So I'll leave the baby stories, and all the hilarity that is epidurals, C-sections and episiotomies to professionals like my Comedy editor colleague, Melissa is fashionably late!  . I'll confine myself to collecting all the birthday material featured below.
Just remember, though - the birth of anything is a creative moment. Whether a child or a story - or a website - it's all about creativity. From the initial spark to the finished product, the creative process can be deep, profound, and humbling - and it can also be the source for belly-splitting laughter. |
On birthdays:
For starters, a limerick about Writing.com's seventh birthday:
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There's nothing funny about Alzheimer's Disease, but anything can be comedy if it's handled right:
A bit of a birthday mystery:
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And the dark side of birthdays:
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Some birthday parties are funnier than others:
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And let's not forget that all-important milestone in the U.S., the 21st birthday:
On birth:
The impending birth of a child:
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And the birth of religion:
The birth of an ezine:
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And, lest we forget, the story of the birth of our own online home, straight from the horse's mouth:
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Last month, I did a newsletter on the humor inherent in personal ads. Here's some of the feedback:
Tigger thinks of Prancer : Thanks for the entertainment. I especially love that it is at others' expenses.
Want me to do one at your expense, Tig?  I believe it's important to laugh at ourselves - but it's even more important to laugh at everyone else.
alyssa91075: I read the personals and "missed connections" everyday on craigslist.com. You should look their for material. There are definitely some "characters" that would make for very interesting comedy. I don't read them for anything other than the laughs I get. Michael reads them too...sometimes we even do it together and laugh our asses off.
My wife gets laughs out of craigslist. When I tell other people my wife is reading craigslist, though, they look away, give me a sad smile, and shake their heads. I was wondering why they were doing that. Now I know.
andromeda Funny, but I'm not looking. Is it me, or is there a lot of that stuff going around right now? Not all of us are single and looking!
thanks for another laugh
Single or not, there's nothing wrong with looking - at personal ads, at least
Now I'm out of here, before SM realizes I called him a horse, up there. See you next month! |
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