Archive for the 'Humorists Platform' Category

It’s No Joke - It’s the Audience!

Let’s define-what is a joke? Simply anything that makes people(audience) laugh. It can be merely a word, a smirk, a raise of the eyebrows or even a momentary silent pause. As long as it gets a smile or a chuckle or a guffaw from the audience. Which means a joke or comedy needs the audience […]

Family Circus Cartoon Provokes Mass Rioting, Violence

(UNASSOCIATED PRESS) Widespread rage over recent Family Circus cartoons erupted violently into the streets of America yesterday, when angry protestors violently displayed their disapproval of the patronizing comic strip by looting and firebombing local stores.
Beyond the United States border, equally livid international protestors demonstrated their violent discontent as several U.S. Embassies on European soil were […]

A Dog’s Eye View of the World, Part I

(Note: The following article was relayed to us via an otherwise respected author, who told us he had transcribed his dog’s musings on humanity to him. While we were, shall we say, skeptical to the max, the, uh, dog had some interesting points to make. We therefore present this four-on-the-floor account for your reading pleasure… […]

Dumb Luck

I’ve never really thought of myself as being funny. I don’t have much of a sense of humor at all. My ex-husband used to tell me dumb jokes all the time and I didn’t laugh, not even to be polite like everyone else would do. Yet the strange thing is that people who’ve read some […]

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS…

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WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS…
Or, learn how to flog fruit and at least lob the losers!
Theolonius McTavish, a lemonade-stand sales rep at the tender age of five, a used car salesman at the testy age of 20, and now a paltry pie-maker just a tad too old to remember the darn […]

10 THINGS NOT TO LEAVE IN POCKETS

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10 THINGS NOT TO LEAVE IN POCKETS
Or why these facts are important to good mental & physical health
Ovid Publius Hadweenzic, Ph.D., Professor of Pith n’ Vinegar, (and an avid reader of paltry poetry by a little-known and quite inept weaver-of-wool from a small Welsh village that few can pronounce, Llanfairpwllgyngyllgogerychwryndrobllllantysiliogogogoch).
Academic research […]