Stand Up (Or Be Counted)

Cherry

By Ewan

Tue, 21 Nov 2017
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4 comments
 

I say, I say, I say:

when did you last hear a joke

start like that?

When the cheeky chappie

tossed his career off

a cliff.

 

Remember the old Python Joke

-they didn’t tell many-

the one about

Nixon?

Trump

needs a mouth

transplant, this is not a joke.

 

Nothing is funny now.
Humour is about difference.

Jokes are cruel.

Imagine Motherland, written by two men.

Lucky it isn’t.

People laugh at inappropriate things.

We “carried on” being funny

via Empire Days in black-face:

whose mum was ever told

“it ain’t half hot”?

 

But...

We are not

the engineers of human

souls.

 

What

is

the

difference

between

a Stakhanovite

and

Orwell’s Boxer?

Two Legs.

Horse laughs all round.

 

You will note

that there are still

“Chinese” Jokes

and Islamists “deserve” ridicule.

Acceptable, for now:

Frankie chooses targets

carefully

lest others boil.

 

Certificate 12
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Days Like These
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Comments

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Humour can be revealing. And it can be a weapon. I worked with a bully in a high(ish) place who maintained his tyranny with offensive or oblique humour. And the colleague who could offend and bully by joking obscenely about her "Tourette's". Then the "Irish" jokes that became "Corkman" jokes when repeated in Dublin. Funny old world. Ha, ha!

Parson Thru

Submitted by Ewan on

a butt of every joke. Some holier than thou funny people should remember that... I can't bear any of them.

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Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

Interesting, I love the way you've arranged the verses. Humour is so complex but thesedays its popularity seemingly governed by trends. Motherland and Michael McIntyre..sickeningly unfunny. 

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

There was a lovely take-the-p 4 part series on Channel 4 or was it ITV 2  last year.'The Windsors'. I feel that people in high places can expect a few custard pies in their face, goes with the job but yes Ewan, humour often has a mean streak. Either that or its silly daft puns often about 'rude' parts of the body, fun to indulge in if I am with close equally coarse-minded friends but 'when in doubt don't' Taboo is powerful.