Humour

Humour is a funny thing.

The best humour is all about original thought, ah, if only I had one now or have ever had one, probably have thought it was original, but doubtless someone got there before me.

Sometimes the funniest people are those who don't actually realise they are being funny, in which case you are laughing 'at' them rather than 'with' them which isn't very funny at all.If you don’t have anything good to say about someone then don’t bother saying anything at all. You really can be funny and nice at the same time.

So many 'funnymen' (and women) seem to have had 'double lives', behind the public perception of the laugh-a-minute, wise cracking, happy go lucky sole, appears to lie a deeper, darker more melancholy figure, struggling with personality issues and an understanding of who and what they really are. It got me to wondering with comedians whether behind the mask of laughter many of them might be using comedy to hide a much greater sense of sadness. Public/private faces, two sides of same coin – maybe it just goes to show that you can never really tell, because as an outsider looking in you really don’t know what goes on in a person's mind and/or behind closed doors.

Humour is such a very unique concept and is best left to each individual to define.