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Comedy, a short story by Richard A. Ridley. Date added: 2010-10-03. Times viewed: 4970.

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Intro: Dedicated to Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, Jerry Sadowitz and Frankie Boyle. In terms of T.V. comedy it's lucky there's a Family Guy, and Peep Show is quite edgy quite often. I also like Charlie Brooker's no-nonsense approach, he's like a non-financial Max Keiser. Life without Family Guy would be worse than that time I went to watch T.V. with my Amish neighbours and it was just a crate. I'm telling you, a crate. With a picture of the Bible pasted onto it. Still, I've seen worse.

Comedy by Richard A, Ridley

O woe is me I’m comedy,

Forced to be tender,

I’m weakened and slender,

Once fat and jolly,

Now a mere shadow,

Unfeasibly light,

Weightless in the zeitgeist wind.

A vanilla orchard,

With bland satirical flowers,

And Niceties,

And Nice Ties,

And Iced teas,

And delicate, sensitive comments.

I can’t survive like this.

As I perceive a crashing din,

Someone’s slipped on a banana skin,

Dare not to show merriment,

It might be an old gent,

A minority citizen,

A religious denizen,

A protest re: venison.

Happily,

It turns out to be,

A young, white, middle-class male,

And although the joke is stale,

It’s safe to laugh.

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