They Love to Make Me Laugh

This was so fun; I laughed out loud, and watched all the alternate endings. The majority of Youtube.com creative stuff just doesn’t really make it outside of a million random silly thoughts that I have on my own. When someone stretches, or better yet, breaks out of my own strange imagination, particularly in a clever way, I am tickled by this. The video above stretched enough to be worth my while, and to subscribe to see more. Be on the lookout for Shrek, by Shay, auditioning for Robin Hood! Very funny silly stuff.

I think the funniest stuff comes from the stuff we’re familiar with, but with a twist. I think the biggest laugh can come from stuff we're scared of. Also things we'd be afraid to admit we have thought about. Have you ever had something devastating happen and you responded in laughter? Laughter is just like tears; an overflow of emotion. I love to laugh, and can forgive anyone able to make me laugh!

Top 5 Comedic Geniuses, IMHOToday are:

1. Kurt Vonnegut; a novelist who could literally make me laugh and cry in a single page. I often laughed at something and then had a cold chill that he could make me laugh at such tragic things. Brilliant, black humorist.

2. Lucille Ball; I know I know, but after seeing "I Love Lucy" many thousands of time there are still moments of genuine belly laughter, by some subtle gestures along with garish slapstick. She really was a genius!

3. Carl Reiner, by way of the Dick Van Dyke Show; for better or worse this show is the basis upon which I judge all comedy. It had everything, and it was the best of the best!

4. Mel Brooks; "Blazing Saddles", High Anxiety", "Young Frankenstein", need I say more?

5. Peter Sellers; "Being There" made me laugh out loud repeatedly, something I do rarely, except in conversation with my very clever friends. The Pink Panther movies are far more clever than just simple slapstick, and I never get tire of seeing them.

So many I haven't listed here (Looney Tunes, Woody Allen, Jack Lemon, Eve Arden, Gilda Radner, Alec Baldwin, Red Skelton, Chris Rock, Bob Hope, The Three Stooges), but you get the picture, and I am grateful, for they have made the hard times so much more bearable! Here's to you, funny people! "A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer in your pants" from the eulogy for Chuckles the Clown