Scared to Laugh

I want to like Saturday Night Live.

I really do.

It's just not funny anymore.

Back in the day, it was friggen hilarious!

"Jane, you ignorant slut!"

The Bass-o-matic!

Mr. Robertson's Neighborhood!

Joe Pescipo Sports.

"You look marvelous!"

Today I watch in high hopes because everything looks right ... Alex Baldwin as POTUS ... every character Kate McKinnon, Kennon Thompson and Cecily Strong play ... the really unfunny new guys on Weekend Update.

I want to like them so bad ... and they all look perfect ... but it's just not funny.

Occasionally they give me a chortle.

Not a giggle, a spewing of drink, a belly laugh or uncontrollable fits of celebration ... but they sometimes, though not very often, make me chortle.

I know, I know ... everyone's going to say I'm old, romanticizing the humor of the past so the first cast was the best or ... Johnny Carson's better than any late night anything on now ... and Bugs Bunny is a hell of a lot funnier than any cartoon our two year old Che watches.

Why are today's cartoons politically correct?

Anything Stephen Wright, Rodney Dangerfield or Richard Pryor ever did was funnier than all the comics today combined.

Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra and whoever else they chose to make up "The Rat Pack" were great!

Hell, Laugh-In and Hee-Haw are still funnier than anything Saturday Night Live puts on these days.

It makes sad.

We've lost our ability to poke fun at others and ourselves.

It's dangerous to laugh anymore!

You can get blackballed, fired, arrested or killed in today's politically correct world.

Every day, I get up and try to find things that make me laugh.

It's not what the world wants but it's what I need.

Today, I find humor in my past (how in the Hell did that happen?) ... in most every Che does ... the perplexities of living with 3 teenage girls ... being the Minister of a Church in a Bar ... at the lunacy of politics, religion and societal expectations.

The sad reality though is how few there are left in the world to make fun of how we live anymore and there's even fewer to laugh with anymore.

Because it seems as though everybody's scared to laugh anymore.