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| Bow to Lord Buckethead! John Oliver brought this "Outer Space Candidate" across the pond to introduce to the US and he's hysterical! Can we borrow him? |
Never let it be said that I don't have a highly developed, all-encompassing, sometimes twisted, sense of humor. I love, love, love to laugh! I rarely smile but I crack up daily! Funny has been my salvation, my refuge, sometimes the only coping mechanism at hand to deal with the pain and insanity that assaults me every waking moment.
Whether it's cancer or national elections, laughing is essential because sometimes it's all you have. As with anything else I ingest, I am highly selective about my humor - I know truly, blow-milk-through-your-nose, hilarious when I see it - and I saw it on "Last Week, With John Oliver". As Oliver (an American Brit) commented, "When done right, British politics are fun!"
The leather-clad "Lord Buckethead" was a real candidate; visually disturbing, arch, dripping with sarcasm and silliness. His remarks were delivered with a superior (if slightly muffled) British accent! You really need a British accent for effective sarcasm. Who else but a Brit (wearing a cape and a bucket) could say, "Brexit will be a sh__show!" at an event with the PM and sound so snotty?
I love Monty Python. The TV show and the movies. I grew up with Python and "Absolutely Fabulous". Snarkiness is my favorite kind of humor - I adore a good snarkfest. Like a great biscuit, the British are still a dependable source of superior snark and set the standard for ridiculousness. ("Ministry of Silly Walks" is a favorite.) When I saw The "Dark Lord" sharing a stage with the British PM, I LMA off! It was like something from a VISA ad, "priceless".
Who's under the bucket? It's like why did I have a brain tumor? Who knows? Who cares? Mysterious works in the humor scenario. I don't care where it comes from! I like the pulsating blue light where the eyes might be, the metal circle (?) for a mouth, in a bucket! I don't need to know who he is! Seeing under the hood (or the bucket) would be like finding out your dad was pretending to be Santa or there is no Easter Bunny - just plain disappointing. And who needs that? I don't want to know the alien running for Parliament is, in fact, just a dude wearing a 2' bucket! I don't need to know that.
I look for snide, snarky, slightly sideways humor everywhere, and with the internet, I can search worldwide for something really funny.
Or I can easily click on something kind of funny but mostly cute - like a kitten spinning on a Roomba. Always watchable! The Internet rarely disappoints which is good because that's the tone of the world - disappointing, at best. At worst? It's downright scary! One thing you can do is laugh. It probably won't change anything but you might feel better!
