Humour

Hmm.

Ok my friends, in a bid to get myself over the itty-bitty parts of life which make me more miserable and lonesome than I've typically been, I've decided to dedicate today's post to one topic:

Humour.

That's right, and well, where shall I start. Of course. What sorts of humour do people encounter or use in their everyday lives... lame, satirical, political, dirty, filthy, snide, childish, amateurish, dumb etc. And so how does humour fit into the threads of our lives which are interwoven with issues such as faith, love, work, pressure, porn etc? I'm just joshing about the porn bit.

I find that having a little sense of humour brings you a long way. However, in the case of Alvin and myself, our super-chim, semi-high-brow, no-holds-barred, call-me-filthy-if-you-want humour just seems to go over others' heads... and that sometimes is funny in its own sense.

Right.

Anyhow, many people have made a career out of humour.. you know stuff like comedies, comedians, cartoonists, caricaturists etc have all made a decent living out of letting people have a few laughs whether within or without. I personally have great respect for people such as Jim Davis (author of Garfield), Billy Crystal, Chris Rock and Bill Crosby for their insatiable sense of humour... and sometimes I wished I had the ability to make people laugh as much as these guys can. I suppose I can pull off a straight face (Alvin fails this aspect utterly and completely.. and you know it man).

So my life somehow centres around snide humour. I won't deny it, and sometimes it just gives me some satisfaction when I crack a joke, and the joke's on those who can't understand it. I just have a small laugh and get over it. Sometimes it's great when everyone can have a laugh all together... and its usually in those cases, you still get some slow folks who need a deeper explanation of the joke to finally get their funny-bones tingling. I wonder how these people can possibly appreciate something like stand-up comedy.. they're probably the only people in the audience having a stoned expression.

I have to say that right off the bat, I'm terrible at cracking a joke, unless a very good opportunity comes by. Maybe it''s because I'm thinking of something funny to say, which gives me a perpetual brooding look, the sort of buckingham palace guard disorder. O.O

So I'm assisting Alvin on his attempt at a parody of Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code' which is titled 'The La Bamba Code', which is a utter hoot, if not for the fact that our powers of lame humour combined might just yield a comedy classic. I'm not going to give you a spoiler on this book, but all I can say for this moment is that you have not seen anything yet... what is to come WILL make you laugh... just try and brush up on yer English, will yeh?

While it's good to have a parody on Dan Brown's 'classic' novel, I have to say that I really don't get all the hype it's been receiving.. it's just a damn piece of fiction. You know it's a piece of fiction. It's a little bit of fact mixed with fiction. But end of the line is: it's just fiction. Get over it.

Yeah.

I also admire singers/musicians who have a sense of humour onstage.. a couple of good examples are (ok, blame me for being a rock moron, but when was the last time a rapper or pop singer ever had a sense of humour onstage??? maybe you can have a laugh at 50 cent clutching his dick) Freddie Mercury, Bon Scott and Justin Hawkins (from The Darkness).

I think people like Bob Dylan are dull compared to what these guys have.. and that all adds up to the charisma and character of these guys... on top of giving a top-notch musical performance, you need to bond with the audience instead of standing there, strumming your block of wood and looking (toot)ing miserable. That's why I need to start writing more upbeat songs, because it's such a drag being miserable all the time.

Humour is a balance of wit and humility. If you have too much of either.. it just sinks. Completely. Now I'm no professor on the subject, but I'm just reflecting on a little thing called humour, and it's time we liven up and have some kicks. After all, would you have fun being boring?


Cheers,

Crawldaddy