Saturday, February 10, 2024

What's So Funny? comic poem 379 by Angela Lansbury

 

 Chaplin puppet from Wikipedia on Chaplin.


What do you think is funny?

Is it standing on your head

Now that's a funny phrase

To keep you tossing in your bed


Some jokes give you a fright

Or keep you awake for half the night

As you ponder over puns

If you're the serious one


Now toddlers like a tickle

And toddlers like a giggle

Yet I'd slap tickling friends or stranger

Who protests ladies are fickle 


I don't like wandering hands

 I don't like loud, popped balloons

But I laugh at stranger's English

And an off-key old guy who croons


The secret of good comedy

Is raised eyebrow and the pause

It's all in the delivery

Which gives stand-ups aplause


If you repeat the stories

Which once made others smile

You will start to see a pattern

In a little, or long, while.

-ends-

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