REMEMBER WHEN NORMAL PEOPLE WERE CLOWNS, JESTERS AND LAUGHED?

 As we all sitt huddled in our small empty rooms avoiding everybody so we wont get a virus pandemic named after a soft fizzy drink, in what is called in this day of 'buzz words ' and phrases ..SELF ISOLATION...It seems strange to be typing a blurb about ,clowns and jesters and people who make a fool of themselves for a living ,but actually its probably not such an odd subject in these days of ,maybe not black death and plague ,but a light fizzy lurgy.

Clowns ,jesters ,jokers have taken many forms through the years ,using their natural gifts to make themselves look silly for the amusement and entertainment of others. Physical comedy , written and drawn comedy ,like what i attempt to do and spoken comedy . As comedy evolved ,starting from bells and sticks annoying the king in his court right up until these days where theyve evolved into clowns and very unfunny jesters called politicians and they arent funny, but frightening as these clowns and buffoons have our life and our survival balanced on their ridiculous views and opinions, at this moment as a worldwide pandemic is at our facemasks they tell us to stay away from everywhere and everybody and not to worry, if it wasnt so unfunny ,it would be hilarious.

Once people were funny and entertained with funny songs and bright colours and called jesters ,annoying people with bells and generally annoying stuff...Physical humour humour has always been beloved ,flips and pratfalls ,even up to our fairly recent times with comedians with funny songs and physical stuff which saw them through their career in variety halls throughout the land. Then some moved into films years later ,all the silent stars and later characters like Jerry Lewis and our own Norman Wisdom. I saw him getting slung all over the stage of the Liverpool Empire years ago ,an aging fellah landing in a full side ways splits from about 10 feet up. I remember biting my lip and wiping tears of laughter from my eyes ,i was amazed. I had trained in Karate for years ,stretching and straining to do the splits ...unsuccessfully!....All i got was clicking hips and knees.

Looking incredibly daft5 and stupid has always been a good way of getting a laugh. Combined with bright ghastly colours and ill fitting shoes and cloths , false red noses?...What the red nose secret is ,i'm not too sure ,outside its connection to way too much to drink, which i do understand !....Also things like big shoes ,huge braces and baggy loud check suits ,which probably scare as many people as crease them up laughing

In our enlightened times ,sadly silly humour where once that word was a compliment is now sneered upon by our liberally sensitive pains in the arse that be, anything that passes the 'not offensive to any sex ,race ,colour ,gender ,breed of dog etc, etc, ism, ist, etc, etc #themtoo,etc,etc is ok and the rule of thumb is the 'Beeb'or Channel 4 will show the days clowns ,jesters , i think i prefer the guy with the bells and the stick.

Lest we forget the shining light of clowns and jesters ,the cartoonist!...Life was portrayed and much laughter ensued from a simple gag, strip or editorial cartoon....The power ,in megaton-gags was amazing ,humour in whatever form has it ,but the cartoons have gone and humour has been shackled ,but hope is out there....I was never a fan ,but i saw RICKY GERVAIS wipe the floor with Hollywood ,big corporations and preaching gobshite actors and actoresses.....One man with well observed well written material shut up millions of woke peddaling  smug tweets and rants ofn social media (gawd bless it!)...As this is what has destroyed humour and entertainment and removed our clowns ,jesters and chance to enjoy and laugh.

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THEN N' NOW !

It's ironical in a way that the most unsociable activity that the wonder of modern technology has given us is given the name social. Every person on the planet give or take a few odd sorts who haven't got a phone spends their days gazing and tapping text on their little flat screen to send messages or see if theyve recieved messages from someone ,anyone' it doesnt matter. There seems to be an excited urgency if you recieve a message on the phone through ,google ,Twitter ,Facebook ,etc ,etc...They are a lot more important than the people who are actually with you wherever you may be.

As the years have gone on and the social media has taken us over ,the streets are full of people shuffling down the streets and crossing main roads totally concenterating on who likes their latest facebook message instead of the double decker bus trundling inexorably towards them. I remember getting knocked into in Liverpool a few years ago by people on their phones ,texting and getting a little irritated, but a few weeks later i was working in Macau and the streets were filled in the densely populated islands and everyone was on phones . I had been doing some boxing training and just as well as you had to be light on your toes, esspecially when it was raining as they'd have their umbrellas in one hand and be texting with the other , as they were short and looking down i nearly lost my eyes a few times getting cuts on my forehead from the umbrella spokes. Apparently they'd tried to have texting lanes with symbols of people texting on lamposts ,but nobody saw them as they were looking down. When they tried putting them on the ground they were blocked by the phones

I was caricaturing people by request , but as i'd go to their table i'd get a quick glance before their head would drop 90 degrees from a sociable vertical to a social media stare as the caricaturist was forgotten for the joys of social cyberspace. I drew a guy as a black circle with ears i explained it was the view from the top of his head which was all i had to work with. Families would eat and every single one was away somewhere far away on their phone to people far from their loving family and friends who likewise were in contact with other vitally important people on the network....Insane media.  

I'm not the best when it comes to spelling and punctuation ,but typing on the lap top has done me no favours, but i do try. I try and write relatively normally ,but refuse to go into text speak and refuse point blank to join the LOL brigade.

It amazes me how people get so upset when they havent got their phones ,kids and adults behaviour is identical . The most important item in any house is the chargers ,of which there are a number scattered about the house. The phone is now becoming the only bit of technology that people can work. I wonder will anybody have the scientific knowhow to invent anything new other than phone APPS and hi-tech things like SELFIE STICKS ?

The TWITTER phenomena is something that totally pisses me off, every body has an opinion ,but as soon as JEREMY CLARKSON screws up on a question on 'WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE' or The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES has something to spout they and 50 billion others have to have their limited character say. All the news programmes and newspapers now see fit to broadcast and print these twits tweets , i don't think i've ever read one i liked , a few words in amongst a heap of twitter symbols and twitter addresses. At least an e-mail is a sort of traditional letter(ish) ! 

Anyhow i cant waste all day writing this crap....Ive got to go onto FACEBOOK to tell everyone what i had for my breakfast !

TIM LEATHERBARROW: DONALD TRUMP THE GORGON!!!....HAIR WITH MINDS OF ITS OWN ON A NIGHT OUT IN RUSSIA!

The whole world hates the American presidential elections as they last , so it seems longer than the term that the existing president gets to spend in the White house after winning the last 'slog'!...Boring as shit! is a good description of the whole 'circus', but for a reason i cannot fathom the Yanks love it and like a Supergroup rock tour they have political rallies filled with flag waving screaming fans????....I honestly wouldn't turn my head to look at any British politician if they walked past in town , i genuinally hate the slimey bastards.

The whole world has been thrown into chaos ,not by two people, but by one man. Hilary Clinton is an experianced politician and has flounced arounds the corridors of power for years under various presidents ,even her husband, who had a few other WhiteHouse ladies under him as Hilary was over him ,i can't imagine her taking orders from the hubbie.

No, the force of nature was a hairpiece with minds of its own like the mythical GORGON atop the head of a certain DONALD TRUMP, possibly the most powerful buisnessman on the planet. He virtually ran the country ,so thought "Gee!..Why not go the whole hog!" and actually run the whole sheebang!?

Politics n' politicians are all the same and all faith has been destroyed as each candidate and party change, but nothing else changes. If Hilary'd got in i doubt things would've changed much, but one thing about Donald is that there will be change, wether that change is good or bad is yet to be seen. The man is totally un-P.C. and offended lots of people and angered all kinds all over, the political version of the atom bomb. He's an opinionated hard nosed buisnessman and isn't afraid of confrontation. He has no speechwriters, etc, he's quite happy and visably enjoys facing the press and announcing to anyone his intentions on Twitter, i think it is amazing !

Attacking immigrants ,building walls to cut off mexico and all points south; Building up nuclear weapons?...Wether the yanks actually reduced them to levels they claim is debatable, the US are the most paranoid n' Xenophobic nation on the planet, the Chinese n' Ruskies are definitly not angels, but those military medal clad nutters who run the place are just as nuts as those in the Pentagon. Trumps a hard man and knows power and control , he'll be right at home. Politics over the next few years should be ,shall we say interesting?

A mercenary ex British M.I.6. man reckons the Russians are hacking n' blackmailing Trump and American political stuff with film of Trump haven't naughties with Russian ladies in Russian hotels, etc, but Trump came out thouroughly unflustered and denied it all pointing out he realises that he's a target for foreign intelligence and most hotels etc he stays in on foreign trips theres been cameras set up and asked "Am i stupid enough to do all this while being filmed?", he may have a point. Whereas most politicians would crumble under these 'allegations' and resign to 'Do some gardening!', It's just another day at the office for DONALD TRUMP !