 Comedy: July 29, 2009 Issue [#3188] |
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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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Interactive Comedy
When we think of comedy, often we think of a nerdy-looking girl (or guy) up on stage making jokes while the audience, one hopes, laughs. Or, perhaps, of watching a movie where funny stuff happens, at which point, one hopes, we laugh.
Of course, some of the greatest comedy is perpetrated by teams. For examples: Abbott and Costello; The Three Stooges; the Marx brothers; the Republican National Committee.
But comedy doesn't have to be all pitch and catch - often, we get the best results bouncing ideas off each other. Ideas bounce, of course, unless they suck, in which case they "fall flat." When a person "falls flat," it's funny. When an idea does, it's the opposite of funny. See?
Anyway, fortunately, we have the internet (trust me - if you're reading this, you most likely have an internet), so we're not limited to listening to other peoples' funny stuff, or struggling to make up our own. We can exchange ideas like the couple in the back row is exchanging germs.
And right here on WDC is plenty of opportunity for interactive comedy: forums, interactives, campfires, mad libs, In & Outs and, perhaps funniest of all, peoples' blogs. Not that I'd encourage you to post funny comments to a serious blog entry, or serious comments to a funny blog entry. I wouldn't do that any more than I'd use this space to plug my own blog, "Complex Numbers" [18+], or suggest that you turn anyone's blog into a laughing stock. I wouldn't even think of suggesting something like that.
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How about some Mad Libs?
Or some Comedy Interactives?
[Editor's Note: Some of the things I had to wade through to find these scarred me for life. Some of you authors out there owe me some shrink sessions. Wait - no! I meant shrink as in psychologist!]
And then there are the In&Outs:
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Last time, I did a tribute to the late, great Ed McMahon.
faithjourney: Thank you for this tribute to Ed McMahon. His death did fall to the sidelines, didn't it? He was a unique kind of comedian that we all appreciated.
How do you cheat death? Unique up on it.
scarlett_o_h: Thanks for including my little story in your Newsletter. That was a very pleasant surprise. The world's a sadder place each time it loses a comedian like Ed McMahon.
You're welcome  And I guess we're just going to have to strive to be funnier to compensate.
And that's it for this month - tune in next time for another installment of As the Joke Turns. Until then,
LAUGH ON!!! |
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