It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Where Honesty Belongs In The Back Of The Bus

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When people rave about a stand-up comic
for "being honest"—as if the comedian's
picture belongs in the dictionary
next to the word "Honesty"—
it opens a big can of worms.

Does it mean other comics are "dishonest?"

NO!
It means those people know
diddly-squat about stand-up comedy.
"Honesty" is not the bailiwick of the stand-up:
Being funny is!

But the best stand-ups
do more than that:
they take us to the greater truths
of the human condition.

Whether they are honest or otherwise
is not as important as making us laugh
at such foibles that highlight
our human condition.
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