Seinfeld has complained that wokeness is ruining comedy. Similar complains show up in Henry Fielding’s “Tom Jones.”
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On Comedy, Seinfeld, and Tom Jones
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WaPo’s Petri Plays Shakespearean Fool
Washington Post humorist Alexandra Petri has been having a lot of fun with Trump supporters’ attack on “Julius Caesar.” Here are some of her funniest barbs.
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Poems on Mayweather, Manziel, Rivera
“The Daily Sports Poem” blog has poems that perfectly capture a wide range of sporting events.
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Theological Clerihews – Heaven & Mirth
The clerihew form can wittily articulate major theological questions.
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Quiz: Identify These Famous Figures
Two wonderfully light poems give readers a chance to test their knowledge of cultural history.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Albert Einstein, Bloomsbury group, Connie Bensley, Gertrude Stein, Jacob Epstein, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf Comments closed
The Cosmic Meaning of Flushing Flies
I don’t know how deep my father’s qualms go about flushing a fly down a toilet bowl. At the very least, the prospect makes him think twice and look for a larger message, as he does in the following comic poem.
Mark Twain Made Humor Matter
It is Mark Twain’s unrivaled ability to combine both laughter and enlightenment that makes him continually relevant.
Huck Finn vs. CBS in the 1960’s
Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain This past Friday was the 125 anniversary of Huckleberry Finn, a book that packed a wallop when it came out in 1885 and has continued to be controversial ever since. Last May I wrote a series of posts on Huckleberry Finn, including on its importance to me as a child […]
