Humour: Like the thread of silver that used to run through our old pound notes, so has humour run through the blogs lately. So I set a very forgetful mind to work out who made me laugh - it was a mixed bag!
Remember 'The tub of Lard' that was 1993, when Roy Hattersley the politician did not appear on 'Have I got news for you'. They substituted a tub of lard for Hattersley, it was original and funny as they addressed the tube of lard quite seriously.
Ian Hislop and Paul Merton always have on the tips of their tongues a funny remark, my two favourites by the way. Ian Hislop latest was recently, when asked to talk about the latest crisis with America. He said, and here I am paraphrasing, it will be four years of glorious fun, there maybe a few nuclear bombs involved - but hey-ho.
Spike Milligan's rather droll outlook on life is captured brilliantly on his gravestone "I told you I was ill".
My one and only joke which is so pathetic.
There were two dogs who lived in Rome, one was a Catholic dog the other a Protestant dog. One Friday wandering together through the streets the Protestant dog cocked his leg against the Vatican. The Catholic dog looked at him furiously, 'if it wasn't Friday I would bite your balls of for that'.
Now most people won't know why. But of course you don't eat meat on Friday just fish by Catholic command, silly but it always made me laugh.
Home news: the Swiss trip is off, Matilda was sick all night, apparently Nora virus is doing the rounds through her friends so the trip is cancelled much to my daughter's relief. Funnily enough she and Andrew went to listen to an older comedian at a club on Thursday night. She didn't find him very funny, but if I remember will look his name up. She was cross with him because he picked on them in the front row.
Andrew's laugh is always enormous, he laughs at most things. But is funny how humour and laughter helps the human heart to relax. One more, when the bet was on that Liz Truss leadership would not outlive the life of a lettuce. Guess who won? the lettuce of course. It was an Iceberg lettuce, spiteful of course but humour can also be cutting.
There have been lots of jokes about our current situation but it is difficult to laugh about it anymore.
ReplyDeleteHope you are enjoying your weekend, Thelma.
Well it is very windy at the moment, not the sort of weather to go out Ellen. The invalid is getting better/
DeleteHope Matilda recovers soon.
ReplyDeleteI can never remember jokes - have a good memory for some things but jokes vanish 5 minutes after I've heard them
She is on her way to recovery Sue. My daughter was taking over crumpets for her aunt and now we have six packets to dispose of, I expect they will freeze.
DeleteWife's brother parks his car beside ours, and pulls a face at her through the window.
ReplyDelete"Ugly mug" wife calls him.
"Granny glasses" responds brother.
"At least I can take mine off" says wife.
Short, sharp and witty, should remember that one Tasker.
DeleteThat made me laugh.
DeleteThe English do some humour so well, such as the Tub of Lard and Hislop and Merton. I quoted Milligan in my blog when my mother died. The lettuce was superb humour without being that funny, although it was very funny when it turned out to be true. I hadn't heard the funny joke you told.
ReplyDeleteIt did set me off thinking who was funny Andrew. I remembered Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore and their conversations in the pub, doubt if anyone remembers them.
ReplyDeleteI can still watch old Morecambe and Wise shows and laugh out loud, that rarely happens with modern comedy and I can’t remember the last time I heard a joke worth repeating. Sign of our stressful times maybe.
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I still remember 'The Class Sketch' from the 1960s with the two Ronnies and John Cleese and who could forget his 'silly walk'
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