I’ve decided to invent a new Special Day! Write a piece of comedy day OR Write About Comedy Day!
Is choosing a day myself permitted pretty please? Who to google to get the low down on a new special day? All suggestions welcome but don’t worry I WILL find out! Who makes the rules? What is comedy? Well it is making light or mockery of subjects with the ultimate aim of getting us all laughing and happy! Or being a clown and waving a tickling stick around whilst wearing extra
large shoes and a funny big red nose. Spraying water from a squeezy sprinkler can also be part of a clown’s amusing job along with doing magic and some physical stunts. Hee hee hee!
Comedy is generally made of making jokes – with funny remarks and stories with a beginning a middle and an end and after the punchline, the deliverer of the joke waits for laughter, guffaws, giggles, chuckling, chortling, big smiles noisy throaty ha has and general abandon to being high spirited and sometimes ecstatic.
What makes something funny? It is clearly sometimes a personal thing but take this quote for example – “An Englishman an Irishman and a Scotsman walked into a bar” The barmaid said “Is this a joke?” The Brits love making jokes about their peoples and actually many successful comedians have used ethnicity as a “cradle to nurture” their quips. One of my own jokes is about the late comedian Bernard Manning…”Why has Bernard Manning changed his name to Bernard Matthews?
Cos all his jokes are turkeys…” I remember reading that he eventually got a following even from the groups he would employ to entertain his audiences bless ‘im and had multicultural audiences later in his life. A pork pie walked into a bar – the barmaid said “sorry we don’t serve food here”.
And then there’s the theme of saying “Have a nice Day”. Why not “Have a nice Week”? or “Have a nice life?” Some funny people would prove something of a more substantial encouragement on their day such as “Have a mind enhancing super nova psychedelic day and a happy groovy twilight crepuscule”…but I doubt that would catch on. Or Would it? Ha ha.
We have a funny way of making up pet names for our high street shops in the country hence Marks and Spencers is Marks and Sparks, Dorothy Perkins is Dotty Perkies and Nat West due to the signage which looks like 3 cats on the logo is Cat West. KFC has a nickname Killing for Company for example.
Many comic skits can be seen about our favourite high street stores in adverts on the box – namely currently Tesco ads. Comedy therefore sells products as well as provides a mood enhancing experience.
The word comedy is said to be connected with a Greek verb meaning “to revel” and be associated with a Greek God of vegetation Dionysus. The origins of comedy are thus tied up with vegetation rituals. Take it or leave it my precious Google made me feel all googly over this outside the box revelation. However I am sure there’s lots of funny takes on who wants to claim comedy as their own!
Finally no one takes you seriously if you write comedy! A famous comedian once said “When I was young I always said I wanted to become a comedian. They all laughed. They’re not laughing now!”
Hope you enjoyed this reflective piece of writing. I like to be funny. It makes me laugh! Hope it makes you laugh too.