I just snorted (12.21.14) I love to laugh. I wish it came easy, perhaps I’m not easily entertained. I’ll listen to full comedy routines and never laugh once. Though I truly appreciate dry wit, I also love physical comedy and completely inappropriate humor. I will forever laugh at Mary Katherine Gallagher flailing herself through a stack of chairs on SNL “Superstar!”, the films of Ellen DeGeneres’ staff visiting a haunted house and Peter Seller’s dismounting the parallel bars into the stairwell in The Pink Panther Strikes Again. Eddie Murphy’s Delirious is still quotably hilarious: “I got some ice cream.” I watched Last Comic Standing for the first time this last season. The winner was my favorite: Rodman. Watch his routines on “self-checkout lines” and “baby daddy,” but if you laugh until you cry like I do, wait to put on your makeup. Robin Williams will forever be my favorite, no greater comedian will ever exist. I miss him terribly, RIP. Every year for Christmas, I buy each person in my family the funniest card I can find, generally really raunchy and inappropriate, but hey, that’s our family. I wrap them all up in a box and after the last person opens their present, I hand someone the box to open. Somehow they forget what’s coming each year and then someone yells, it’s the cards! Watching the reactions and their laughing as they open, read and pass them along is priceless. We used to do a funny gift exchange, but for whatever reason we stopped. So two years ago I revived it myself. I went to the dollar store where I was working in Moses Lake and bought 11 of the funniest things I could find. Mind you, just being in a dollar store in Moses Lake is pretty entertaining. The funniest thing I found was a marijuana test kit (for a dollar of course), they also sell pregnancy tests. Seriously, you can get a pregnancy test for a dollar, I’m sure it works great, good luck with that (perhaps you shouldnt buy your condoms there either). I can’t say what I bought this year, don’t want to spoil the fun, but I did find something that still makes me smile when I look at it. I purchased a package of tissue paper for the 11 gift bags. When I was wrapping the presents I noticed it included instructions (with illustrations): “Grasp several sheets together in the center” “Turn upright & twist the bottom” “Place in bag, basket or box.” The tissue paper came with illustrated instructions! Awesome. I enjoy making people laugh as much as I do laughing. I’m a goofball and funny (not always appropriate) ideas are always popping up in my head. When I was little, I took a six-pack of Rainier bottles, filled them with soapy water, put the lids back on and gave it to my uncle for a present (he thought I gave him a real gift, though perhaps perplexed by a 7-year old giving him a six-pack). When I was at the dentist office, after the hygienist was done, I popped in a set of vampire teeth for the dentist’s exam, he about peed his pants laughing. In high school one of my friends and I were hanging out in her bedroom listening to music, she got on the phone to break up with her boyfriend, I proceeded to start singing the last bit of every line of every song. She couldn’t stop laughing while she was trying to let down him easy. I do a dance and sing “you’re older than I am” for my friends who turn a year older before me. I invented a mock fight with my niece where we act like ninjas and use the long ends of our drape-front cardigans to battle, now officially referred to as “battle sweaters.” I’d share more but I’d offend too many, guaranteed. Next week when you’re spending time with your family, laugh together. Watch SNL’s Christmas special (who doesn’t love “Schweddy Balls” and “A Bag-O-Glass”?) and watch A Christmas Story. Share funny stories, pictures and family home movies. Every time someone tries to get tense, sit on a whoopee cushion. If your family is older, have a few cocktails and play Cards Against Humanity (self-described as “a party game for horrible people.”) Give the little kids joke books as presents. Times of laughter make the best memories. Someday ask me about our “Chefy’s Thanksgiving.” :) Cheers, She (One more to go….)
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 16:24:49 +0000
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