I have always had a fascination with humor.
I remember reading a book in college about humor from a scientific and philosophical perspective. Exaggeration, absurdity, ludicrous, schadenfreude. Likely a few other things that I can’t recall at the time.
Tonight, I watched an episode of the CNN series, “The History of Comedy”, and this particular episode dealt with race. Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, Margaret Cho, Chris Rock, Moms Mabley, Aziz Ansari, Freddie Prinz. So many more that I should name, but this show impressed me.
I did stand-up for a brief period in college. I was so inexperienced, inconsiderate, and obnoxious. Which translated to moderate regional success in commercials and hosting midnight movies.
I had a lot to learn about life, love, and just the condition of being human.
Now I sit here at 53, rambling over a word processor, and I still feel like I have so much to learn.
I guess that’s the advantage of age.
I think now I could probably put together a decent twenty minutes if I had to. I’ve married, I’ve had kids, I’ve been working as a technical trainer for 20 plus years, and I’ve had some funny minutes.
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But there are some things that are funny that I’ll never talk about in a comedic perspective and those topics deal with race and gender. I’m as white as the day is long, I can’t joke about that part of the human struggle. I haven’t experienced it. I never will. I understand what white privilege is, and I know for a fact that I was born on first base.
When you start thinking about that sort of thing… well… it’s kind of hard to find something funny to say.
More to think about. Maybe I’ll find something to make me smile. Probably something Chapelle joked about, or Eddie Murphy, or someone else.
Probably not something I thought of.
Maybe next time.
Peace y’all.
