Thursday, 12 May 2011

Did you hear the one about the...

People think they like a sense of humour, right?
But why?
Whose?
Yours?
How much more likely that they like their own - reflected?
Or are you going to teach a different one?
Are you seriously going to introduce a Russell Howard fan to Daniel Kitson?
Come on. Listen to yourself.
Or perhaps you do not understand the question?
Perhaps you claim to like someone else's humour when you think it's suitable. Or appropriate. Or timely. And not at other times.
Well, wake up soldier.
A sense of humour is a tool that crosses....well... barriers is too small a word. Think more global, universal even. I'll allow you a wormhole (?wyrmhole) here if you are feeling confident.
It's more powerful than a laser because it can go round corners. It's the sort of solution and defence that modern life needs.
And nobody is better equipped to deploy it than the English.
Be proud and play.
You have a flexible joculoscope for investigating life.

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