Welcome to Musing Interrupts. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. You know what is great about comedians? I’m going to tell you a couple of things. I also want to go over some principles of comedy, mind you, this is purely from observation, so I may be wrong. Come closer, pull up a seat, put your feet up, and let’s talk about it.
My first love was the first boy who made me laugh, without fail. I was 11. I really loved him. We were friends, in the same class. We had playdates at each other’s house, we have memories playing his FIFA game on my super Nintendo, watching movies, and eating pizza at my house, pitched battles with his friends at his neighborhood park, and sitting close to each other in class. On my behalf, it was a silent love, I never told him… although, I’m pretty sure it was plain to see. I’m not a master of mystery now, so at 11… I mean. Whatever… What I most admired, was how he just knew what would make everyone burst with laughter. It was not only the phrases he said, it was his timing. I so admired that. I desperately wanted to be funny too. He was not they only funny person in my life, a few years later, my sister filled our home with comic relief. We were not great friends then… but ohhh, she made me laugh. She still does.
Comedians have this fantastic ability to break down walls, emotional, moral, the 4th wall, through observation, commentary, and a playing with perspective. Comedy is a vocation for serving laughter and helping people discover the boundaries of their laughter and their imagination, sometimes through the power of deduction. Like explorers and scientists in the field, they observe, mix, condense, project and make it go boom. Comedians should be sent in when diplomacy has failed. Think about it, TNT vs a Release of Serotonin… the effects are clear.
From the moment you meet a comedian you know you are in for a treat. They have the best ice breakers. Ahhh, the first impression can be poetic. It could go both ways too, you could be funny right off the bat, or you could present yourself as a very modest and serious person, whom, when you least expect it, makes you laugh hard. Yeah... Some people like to laugh so hard that their bowels move and their face becomes completely distorted. Some people, and me too. I love to laugh. Laughter is the great defeater of sadness, a champion against angst, a mediator between the anguish life has to offer and breathing life and color. Making laughter, what thing.
The best ice breakers are those that catch us off guard and make us laugh out loud, in the most unguarded way. Like when you are at a funeral, and you approach the grieving widow and ask if she thinks people are having a good time.  That might not go over so well. However, if I go first, I do hope you ask my husband that. Also, I hope my admirers put on a proper display of grief. At least one should drape themself over my casket, and the speeches should also include words like loving, an unparalleled seductress, brilliant writer, master teacher excelcium, and overall, humble. Which takes me to my next point…
The principles of comedy. The following list is neither exact nor all-encompassing. It is an exercise in observation and an invitation to continue the conversation. Continue reading

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