What happened to Days 15 & 16? A mid-NaBloPoMo break. I’m making up my own rules. We will now resume your regularly scheduled blogging experience.
Saturday night I went to a comedy club. There were moments of laughter from the warmup guy but the main comedian had rage issues. He was heavy on the loud rants and light on the laughs. With an undercurrent of bitterness.
We left the comedy club feeling a bit beat-up because, really, that guy dumped his stuff on us. We were looking for levity and got heavity.
It got me to thinking about comedians. When Robin Williams committed suicide, I remember a lot was said about the things that fuel them. I think Willaims could rage sometimes about things during his standup comedy, but he made it funny. The difference between talent and no talent. And an ability to know when to lighten up.
I was going to find other angry comedians who were funny but when I googled comedians looking for examples, I found Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and spent a half hour watching two episodes. So no time left for writing.
Now here it is your moment of mosaic. A 2nd century AD theatre mask mosaic from the Capitoline Museums in Rome. I’m not sure which mask is supposed to be comedy. The one on the right looks a little like our angry comedian from Saturday night.
