What are you laughing at?

No, seriously.  What's so funny?

The wiseacres at newcritics want to know.

This week, and this week only, because it happens to be National Comedy Week, newcritics is hosting a comedy blogathon and you're invited to contribute.  Yes, you.

Why you?

Because you're funny, dammit!

Here's how it works.  You post on your blog about the "purest comedic moment" you've ever experienced.  That moment can be a vicarious one---a movie you saw, a book you read, a TV show that happened to be on when you were home sick from work, one scene, one chapter, one sentence, one line, one gesture from any of them---or a personal moment of high comedy, one of those "one of these days we'll all look back on this and laugh" moments, like the time her husband came home early from work. Write it up---or repost it from your archives if you've already written it up---stamp the post with the newcritics seal of approval and email the link to newcritics own comedy czaress, Mrs Peel, at josquin21 (at sign) aol (dot) com.

Or if you're shy around Mrs Peel, send it to me or drop the link in the comments and I'll see that she gets it.

Fun begins tomorrow, Tuesday, November 6, an election day, which I'm sure is not a coincidence.  So vote the bastards out and the clowns in by joining us at newcritics all week long.

Not feeling funny enough?  Pshaw, as one of my favorite comediennes likes to say.

Let me give you some advice my old man Mannion gave me about blogging.

You can be a blogger, my son, he said.  But be a comical one!

In short...make 'em laugh!

Comments

[Plutonious Monk]

Lance, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was shown on a couple of the cable channels few weeks back. I was a teenager when the film was released in 1943 or 1944 and was most impressed by the preparation, the raid itself and the ordeal of the captured and wounded airmen.
Not until the mid-90's did I view the picture again. What impressed me most then was the portrayal of all the officers and enlisted men as being ever so sweet and nicey nice with one another.