A Joke is Where You Make Somebody Laugh. The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Fallen.

 

 

 Rev Wilbur Witt

Good morning! A lot of you don’t know it but basically I’m a comedian. Yeah! I made my bones in Austin and Nashville writing Adult Country Comedy. Only problem was that back in ’82 they wasn’t no Adult Country Comedy. So here I come out of Austin via Killeen dropping “ F” bombs on the Baptists and their wives and kids in Nashville Tennessee. I loved Jesus but I drank a little. Pope Roy Acuff handed me my ass and I went home and got into Real Estate. Since I grew up in Simmonsville stealing hub caps, Real Estate seemed a natural choice. When a Real Estate Broker dies you don’t have to bury them. Just drive a stick through their ears and screw them in the ground.

Surprisingly, me and my sixth ex-wife did quite well at that. Only got sued by the state of Texas twelve times and beat every charge. They were crookeder than us! But let’s talk comedy. John Brandt told me once during a recording session, “A joke is when you make somebody laugh!” The reason he told me that was I was cutting a tune called “Kill Little Babies and Eat Their Guts!” Hey! I was Austin, ok? Well we dispensed of that project and did an album, “Weird Wilbur Rides Again.”

I stayed in Real Estate. But the basic theory of comedy was embedded in my brain. Fast forward to today. Political jokes have had a firm grip on the American scene like forever. The formula is simple. If you don’t like George Carlin, don’t listen because he won’t make you laugh. If you are not in tune with the material the connection will not be made in your cerebellum, and you will leave the show thinking, “I could’ve had a V8!” I get this all the time. Like, I’ll be trying to make a point and my grandkids will say, “67,” and laugh their asses off. So I’m sitting there like a fool with them reminding me about how old I am. Now I know what “69” means, but when you try to explain that to an Alpha they go, “Ewww Ewww Ewww!”  If the Alpha is <18 the cops go, “Ewww Ewww Ewww!”

But, there is one type of humor you should walk away from! When someone gets shot in the neck and Social Media is saturated with pictures of his wife crying over his coffin you need to leave that alone! If you try to work that into your routine and someone finds it funny you and him are a couple messed up individuals! Jus’ Sayin’.

His own network went, “Ewww Ewww Ewww,” and he carried his cardboard box out of the studio first thing the next morning! And the opinions blew up. The Left started screaming, “Freedom of Speech!” Now Freedom of Speech didn’t bother them at all when they were shoving dirty socks down our throats! But all the sudden the First Amendment was the order of the day. I listened to Jimmy’s monologue. Uh, yeah! Then I began to check out his other routines. Now I’m a weird guy. You can make fun of my mama, but if you hit the nail on the head I will laugh. (I knew my mama.) But the first Amendment ain’t the issue here. As I examined Kimmel’s material I could only think, “This guy’s got something on someone in the organization because he lost it a long time ago. And he and I are not that far away generation wise.

The left was laughing at him because they hated the right so bad! The Romans laughed at crucifixions too. I’m a big believer in To each his own, but when you tailor your humor on someone’s misfortune you have a problem. On top of that it exposed the driving spirit behind liberal philosophy. 

Different segments of society have different understandings as to just what is humorous. There are several things that tickle the funny bone. Paradox, slapstick, unexpected conclusions, a series of seven or eight things that will bring a smile. Racism is another. That’s right. Racism! Poking fun at different cultural norms. Even your own. And capitalize on those differences. Putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes. One time, for instance, I took the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and changed it to  the National Association for the Advancement of Cracker People. I wasn’t making fun of blacks. I was making fun of me!

Politics has always been in style. This is because in a Democratic Republic nobody gets their way. It’s called compromise! If you’re not pissed off yet, just give it a minute or so, and you’ll be pissed on, But we should all understand that we may have come over on different boats, but we’re in the same boat now. You see, that’s what’s wrong with the kids these days. Back in my day (Oh God! Did I really just say that?)we understood that there weren’t no Sandy Claws. Kids today think the world has a great reset button on a video game. This is exemplified in the lyrics of Turn it Off from the play The Book of Mormon:

I’m not going to go into all the historical and psychological ramifications for this mindset, but I will let you know at least one of the reasons that kid shot Charlie. Social Media Groups! The pandemic forced the kids into their bedrooms and their friends were people they had never met or never will meet! What they thought  were like minded individuals were any number of perverts, mentally ill or downright crazy liars. And we added a new word to the vocabulary; Influencers! And your kids were led down the Yellow Brick Road by a bunch of girly-men believing that these Whack a Doodles were going to change civilization while you became day drinkers, 

WOKE, ANTIFA, BLM, take your pick. We’ve seen Carté Blanche solutions before. —>Goldstein, der showahs!<—

The simple fact is that no one segment of the population causes all the problems. It takes a Congress to do that! And as Will Rodgers told us:

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts!

He made that comment on a stage with politicians from both parties all around him. But people had understanding back then. World War 1, The Great Depression, World War 2 (If it was the war to end all wars why did we have to give it a number?) and later, in the 60s,  Free Love: HIV, AIDS, Herpies, and scores of other maladies, too many to count. They were free, too! And now the Alphas are listening to college professors who don’t know if they should stand or squat. A guy tells them that boys are girls and anyone who cries, “Foul!” gets shot in the throat . . . but they want gun control!

Jimmy Kimmel was a comedian who had seen his better days. That’s the long and short of it. Time for the lounge circuit. He had a good gig and the WOKEs gave him a captive audience that had to laugh at his material because their handlers said so. In my opinion the studio bosses had his neck in that hook for a long time and they finally jerked him off the stage.

George Carlin was more direct but he navigated the treacherous waters of public sensibility by adding a little sugar of humor to the salt of his dialog. The kids have little or no cognitive abilities. They are addicted to memes and sound bites, and while these may make you chuckle, there is simply no substance. Charlie knew that. You would too if you’d only listen!.