Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 03, 2018

Rubba-dub-dub, get out of the tub… oh good heavens, get back in there!

He should go to some place that features performance art. He’d be a huge hit.

They’re not laughing with you …

A literalist with a very shallow mental capacity. So, no blue in his act?

Perhaps they prefer someone with a dry wit.

Perhaps if he tried his shtick from under water?

He is not Standing UP!

That’s Archimedes the stand-up geometer. He gave up his career in comedy because he couldn’t deal with the hecklers yelling, “You reek-a!”

I wonder what it is about comics that make them think that vulgarity is a necessary part of humor. Sometimes, it is appropriate (Even I have one joke that absolutely needs the “F-word”), but not when used gratuitously. I think the idea is that the shock value gets people nervous and some people tend to “titter” when they get nervous. It is often a crutch for poor comedy.

Even the great George Carlin succumbed to frequent use of vulgarity. He didn’t need it, and his material went downhill from there.

Greatest "Clean Comedy Bit Ever??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M

Hope that bath water is warm – or else he’ll be performing blue humor.

Clean body, dirty mouth.

A completely empty room. The promoter took a bath, too.

Perhaps he thought he said to be foamy ?

Ever see the 1974 movie Lenny, starring Dustin Hoffman as stand-up performer Lenny Bruce. There’s one extended scene there in which Lenny absolutely flogs the n-word to death until it’s lost all its venom and power to shock or offend and becomes just another word. I wish it actually worked that way in real life.

It’s the casual use of profanity in daily interaction that bugs me. I’m 66 and been around. Nothing about language shocks me, but the ongoing use of such language detracts from what you’re trying to say. I tried watching the new Netflix series “Bright”, because I like Will Smith and the story line looked interesting. I was completely sidetracked by the language. Even the Orcs have learned how to properly cuss in English. Became boring real fast.

Last time I went to an open mic night at a local “comedy” club, I walked out. A string of off color is not funny.

♫"Good authors too who once knew better words

Now only use four-letter words writing prose.

Anything goes. "♫

………………..Cole Porter 1934

Comedians are smart people. Most would know you take the bath first, and then perform.

Someone once said: profanity is the last effort of a weak mind to enforce its opinion on another person – or words to that effect.