It has become a ritual around my house the last few years whenever
I start to tell a story my wife will stop me short before I really get started
and ask the all-important question: “Is this guy dead?” Apparently I know, well
I knew a lot of people that are no longer with us and stories being what they
are the people in them sometimes are just not around anymore. I don’t sit around
contemplating why them and not me, I’m just glad I’m around to tell stories. Well here goes another one, sort of.
I was watching one of the little tribute videos that have been
plastered all over Facebook since Joan Rivers passed and was struck by something
she said at the end of the one I watched. Joan Rivers kicked the door off its
hinges to pave the way for the great woman comics that followed her. Just by being
herself no matter what the subject she could be sarcastic, abrasive, and
unflinchingly opinionated though she never apologized for who she was. Not everyone appreciated her humor all the
time, though I ‘m sure the biggest stuffed shirts laughed until they cried at
many of her jokes. She mentioned in this little video that for a comic doing
comedy was a calling and it is what we do, we make people laugh. It was spoken in such a way that I knew it
come from inside the heart of who she was. One should be so lucky to find a
calling in that way, the internal knowledge of this is the way I go. I hope you find your calling and I thank you for taking some time to share mine with me.
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