Borsht-Belt Comedians
They don’t make ‘em like Henny Youngman no more
Borsht-belt comedians, vaudevillians before
Delivered punch lines one after another and another
Rat-a-tat-tat-touille ~ their tongues just like rubber
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Categories:
comedians, fun, funny, nostalgia,
Form: Clerihew
Voting With Integrity
If you think whatever anyone says, is true,
There is something horribly wrong with you.
Grown adults know there are good, and
also, some twisted folks.
They laugh when an honorable person is
destroyed by despicable, untrue jokes.
In a world of media, the propoganda fools
the best of our people.
Jokes hide murderous intentions~a brain
is needed…not a tall
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Categories:
comedians, humanity, patriotic, truth, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets for Comedians
Serious poets write fancy sonnets
Fear not, entertainers and comedians
If the clown shoe or nose fits, don it
The avant guarde says ~ Give us plebians
__________________________
Written in comedic pentameter
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Categories:
comedians, humor, poets, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Comedians
loud and obnoxious
pokes fun at the country folk
meets and greets his guests
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Categories:
comedians, fun,
Form: Senryu
A Thank You Poem To the Bravery
I think it's genius
when a person can
see beyond the veil
as they used their gifts
in the most creative way,
in imperiling the darkness
in a jesting way.
This is what we call comedy.
There are many but
few will dare to speak out.
The few to speak out
are the most noble ones
with the heart of a lion.
Bernie
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Categories:
comedians, grief, hero, meaningful, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Comedians
Comedians exploit the people's need,
to have themselves a good laugh to escape their harsh reality.
If the environment were changed to one where everyone benefits,
feeling melancholy or depressed would cease to exist,
making comedians obsolete or at the very least jobless.
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Categories:
comedians, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Stand Up Comedians
Good stand up comedians are a very rare breed
That's why this guy is quite hilarious indeed
He's Brian Reagan
A fantastic comedian
His humour is unusual and totally unique
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Categories:
comedians, giggle,
Form: Limerick
Presidential Comedians
I hear in the Ukraine
there's a comedian
with no prior political experience
who has become their new President.
I wonder
they did not hear
we tried this model in the U.S.
a couple years ago
With predictable tragic/comedic results
not the least bit friendly
to public multicultural health
sold out
to support feudal monoculturing wealth
of not so funny kleptocrats.
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Categories:
comedians, culture, health, humor, power,
Form: Political Verse
Natures Comedians
Penguins are hilarious, they walk at attention
Like a regiment of soldiers, nature's comedians
An image so funny
Humorous and funky
Forever performing time and again
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Categories:
comedians, hilarious,
Form: Limerick
Natural Born Comedians
Natural Born Comedians
I had a class of sixth graders in Chicago,
Absolutely like no other.
Never a class so full of smiles and
hilarious pranks.
Their boundless joy rolled over me like
a huge Sherman tank.
I think they had their own student
lesson plan book,
Whose main topic was: "Let's make
Mrs. R. look like a schnook."
Don't ever tell them, please promise?
It was the
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Categories:
comedians, 6th grade, remember, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Comedians
Penguins are hilarious, they walk at attention
Like a regiment of soldiers, nature's comedians
An image so funny
Humorous and funky
Forever performing time and time again
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Categories:
comedians, hilarious,
Form: Limerick
Nature's Comedians
Penguins are hilarious, they walk at attention
Like a regiment of soldiers, nature's comedians
An image so funny
Humorous and funky
Forever performing time and again
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Categories:
comedians, funny,
Form: Limerick
Tragic Climates For Comedians
If we invested more educational mentoring time
sharing our own mixed-use and neglectful abuse
poetic wisdom stories,
and less time memorizing exegetical LeftBrain histories,
we might more cooperatively learn to live healthier together
and to internally die less, apart.
An under-exploited difference between comedy and tragedy
may discover you have a story to vulnerably share
more than recover from some dogma you compulsively
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Categories:
comedians, culture, earth day, education,
Form: Political Verse
Comedians Tell Jokes, Fools Ridicule
It’s odd how people who think they are funny,
Confuse humor with offensive ridicule.
Saying hurtful, empty and shallow comments,
Pretending it’s all April fool.
Not standing behind what they say, or
Taking the blame for the hurt they cause.
Saying “Hey I was only joking, they’re not even here.”
As though that’s a moral escape clause.
These folks that lack this
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Categories:
comedians, hurt, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Standup Comedians
Good stand up comedians are a very rare breed
That's why this guy stands out, hilarious indeed
He's Brian Reagan
A fantastic comedian
His humour is unusual and totally unique
© Jack Ellison 2015
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Categories:
comedians, humor,
Form: Limerick
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