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LIFE IS COMEDY---YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WIT YOU: First off you need to know my dad and I shared the same name: “Tom O’Brien”. When my dad died I was the first car behind the hearse in the procession. After mass my wife pointed out the gas gauge was a hair above empty, but it was too late, we were leaving for the cemetary in a minute. As we pulled out of the parking lot I decided to take a chance and find a gas station. How hard could it be to pump a couple gallons and h...

LIFE IS COMEDY---THE COMEDY TEST Take this simple test to measure your ability to detect LIFE versus created COMEDY: which one is TRUE, and which ones are actual sketches? 1) Two men decorate the car of a newlywed couple during the wedding ceremony and find out afterward it’s the wrong car. 2) A clumsy son knocks over a plant called Mother-of-thousands that his mother has in her house. He tells her about it by saying “You know that Mother of Thousands plant? It’s down t...

LIFE IS COMEDY---MY FIRST COMEDY ROUTINE My credentials for being a comedian are as follows: I was born on April 1st. PM. Not sure what the big deal is, but when I mention my birthday it gets a laugh. I don’t notice this reaction for other birthday‘s, though Halloween and 29 Feb get some chuckles. (Actually, when people say “April Fool’s Day?!” I act surprised, like I never knew…this is always good for more laughs, an occasional guffaw, and sometimes mi...

This concerns the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday, formerly known as "WEDNESDAY". It's pronounced "WENSDAY". From this point forward spell it "WENSDAY". That's all there is to it. Thanks for your help. My next crusade is dealing with "FEBRUARY". As you well know, the first "R" is useless but I have more research to do before declaring anything.

I was reading the phone book the other day. The White Pages. Had some time to kill so I read. If you read the White Pages you know there's NO plot at all. Lots of characters, but no plot. I don't ususally do this but I read the last page FIRST to see how it ends. After a few pages I decided to not see the movie, no matter who's in it. Movies rarely do the book justice, and this one is a hard one to put down, a real page-turner. If you're wondering why I was reading the phone book the truth i...

Water is wet.The sky is blue.Funny to me may not be funny to you. Humor is not so easy to define, as it depends greatly on your perspective. And vice versa, or as my high school BINGO coach Steve "Dauber King" Mazurky said: "verse vice, uh". Though tough to define, comedy is simple as wet-water or blue-sky---IF IT IS, IT IS! (iii,ii!). And if it ain't, "verse vice, uh". BINGO. The debate is over. Elvis has left the BINGO hall. However comma debate over what's funny is only part of the probl...