I love hearing jokes
Getting lost in chuckles
Laughing so hard
Busting belt buckles
Be it a joke or a riddle
I’m an easy target
If you’re gonna light one up on me
Might as well spark it
You’ll have me in stitches
When I fall out of line
Tears leak from my eyes
Upon delivery of punchline
I’m no stranger to writing
And telling jokes not my specialty
But listening
Part of my morality
Some of my favorite comedians
With them I know I’m in trouble
When they laugh at themselves
Leaving me in a pile of rubble
Red Skelton, King of Pantomime
With his own characters
Gertrude and Heathcliffe
Cauliflower McPugg and Deadeye regulars
Flip Wilson another favorite
Certainly, a funny man
“The Devil made me do it”
As Geraldine, he proved he can
And George Carlin, a class clown
His occupation of fool
My teenage years
He’d hysterically rule
Then Robin Williams came along
First as an alien named Mork
And on The Johnny Carson Show
Poor Johnny’s top would uncork
And who doesn’t know
Rodney Dangerfield
Hold onto your funny bone
On you, his humor he’ll wield
I can only take just so much
Making me all the more dafter
Chasing me to the Loony Farm
Running from the laughter
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