 Comedy: September 24, 2008 Issue [#2627] |
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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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FALL
Wow... it's September already. More... it's Fall already!  Where did the year go? Year! Here, Year! Come to Daddy! ... Year? Drat! it's still hiding.
You'd think Fall would be funnier than it is. After all... it's Fall! What's funnier than a Fall? Nothing, I tell you! (Except maybe a duck).
By now, those of you in school, or with kids in school, will be settling into routine after school began sometime around Labor Day in the US. And what's funny about routine, anyway? Wait, lots of routines are funny. George Carlin's certainly were. Margaret Cho's, not so much.
After the back-to-school bit, and the official beginning of Fall this week, comes Halloween, or Samhain, or Candy-From-Strangers Day... whatever you want to call the last day of October. Of course, you spend all of October planning and decorating for it - though stores started that pretty much alongside their back-to-school specials. "Thanks for purchasing those notebooks, pencils, calculator and Taser. Would you like to see our enormous werewolf collection?"
But while Halloween can be made funny, it's not inherently funny - I mean, all those cute little goblins and ghosts and whatnot: they're dead. Nothing's funny about being dead. Though, I suppose, the manner of death can be funny... but more on that, perhaps, next month. Fortunately, some are predicting that the most popular costume this Halloween will be... The Joker! Yes! Finally, some humor in a humorless holiday! Wait, what's that? The Joker is a delusional, paranoid, psychopathic killer? Okay, not funny!
Then, of course, comes that grand Fall tradition: NaNoWriMo. The only thing funny about that is if someone decides to write a humorous novel. If you do, and you put it up on this site, send me the link and I might post it in a future newsletter - it'll keep the readers laughing through the cold, dreary winter...
But first, here in the US, we have Election Day. Totally, absolutely and completely nothing funny about THAT. I mean, we get to choose one of two people on the basis of... what? Who has the better TV image? And then he (because, at least this time around, it will be a 'he' - at least at first) gets to be king for four years. Well. I guess that makes us all court jesters. I suppose there's a reason Election Day is set so close on the heels of Halloween - we're all out of scared by then.
And then, Thanksgiving - at least, here in the US, where we really don't care what the rest of the world does at the end of November. What does the rest of the world do in November, anyway? In any event, nothing funny about Thanksgiving either. I mean, except maybe the turkey. But turkeys are only funny when they're alive. You know... kind of like ducks.
Then, of course, comes the whole gift-giving retail splurge part of the season, and believe me, that can be comedy gold. So maybe the reason they've extended that frenzy back all the way to the fall equinox... is to give us something to laugh about during an otherwise dreary and dismal season.
Anyway, whatever your plans, enjoy your Fall - we'll be there, pointing and laughing as you pick yourself back up again! |
Here are some items that may or may not be Fall, but definitely are funny 
And then there's this Halloween-themed contest - with a comedy twist!
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Last month, in "Comedy Newsletter (August 27, 2008)" , I discussed the potential deadly peril of telling bad jokes. Some may wonder, then, why I'm still around to write newsletters...
spazmom  : I think it's hilarious about Hugh Grant...good newsletter.
I believe spazmom is referring to my next-to-last effort, "Comedy Newsletter (July 30, 2008)" - but the bad joke relevance is still there. Subtle, perhaps, but there.
⭐Princette♥PengthuluWrites  : A DUCK? What's so funny about a duck?  Penguins are where it's at. Erm, not that they're funny...but if you cover yourself in pictures of penguins, no one will DARE yell at you or be mean in any way because penguins are like heaven. Really!
Oh, yes, penguins are like heaven - if heaven is one big joke, as I suspect! But seriously, there are a lot of birds, besides ducks and penguins, that are just inherently funny. Geese, for instance. Or blue-footed boobies.
maryelle: Loved this, but as my husband says I have a dry English wit and though funny, people usually get me three days after I've left the room, it's not something I'm willing to tackle. I just know they'd find some way to punch me through the screen.
And that, Dear Readers, is why I'm still around to write newsletters even though I tell horrid jokes: No one has yet invented an Internet-enabled USB suckerpunch device - at least, not one that can be installed without my knowledge. When that finally does happen... I'm out of here.
Wait, that's it for the feedback this week, so I guess I am out of here - at least until next month, when we'll try to sprinkle a little humor on the Halloween decorations! Until then,
LAUGH ON! |
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