Where do comedians get their source material?

Do you work the comedy club circuit and walk the local city’s streets during the day, read the city’s newspaper and pick up rumours from local noon talk shows?

I, for one, use online forums and user comments to poke fun at the anonymous angry poster.

You know the ones I’m talking about, who always have problems with problems but never offer solutions or insightful questions about current events, often repeating phrases they heard from popular radio/TV show hosts.

I wonder what these people look like.

Do they have regular lives?

Were they ever in management or owned their own [successful] companies?

Do they know how to lighten up, lay off, cool down or get a life?

Me, I like to have fun, get a laugh, blow off steam, be great at pretending to be great.

Do something off-the-wall like walk into a jewellery story, buy a $500 gold necklace, hand it to someone who returns to the store and finds out how much the store will buy back the necklace at current gold prices. $45?  Wow!  Does that mean jewellery store merchandise is overpriced or what?

A barrel full of fermented punchlines.

It’s all about the level of service.

A word to the world of complainers, nitpickers and naysayers.  Yes, some of us are listening.  And yes, we’re going to make fun of you because you don’t have one original innovative suggestion in your thoughts to make the world better.

Is the world better without you?

Oh, I won’t go that far.  You probably have a loving lizard or pet turtle that can’t live without you.

That’s all for now.

Time to figure out what to do for dinner.

They tell me the person known as Elizabeth Taylor died today.  I never met her so I assume that means I won’t see any more new cinematic presentations with her embodiment in them.  The list of films in which she starred is more than ample to supply my interest in remembering her acting skills.  “Taming of the Shrew” or “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” but probably not “Cleopatra,” though it seems like it was entertaining enough when I saw it years ago.

Reminds me to watch “Where Eagles Dare” or “Anne of the Thousand Days” with Richard Burton.  Or better yet, “The Lion in Winter” with Peter O’Toole.