Humorists, Homage to the Greats!

Kathleen has begun scribbling limericks to pay homage to great humorists and tacking them up on the wall here in her slap-dash manner for stand-up comedy night here at the pub. All the while, she is thinking that caricatures would be nice, framed as they often are in popular establishments like Molly's Pub, lined up in rows tidy enough to please a Pottery Barn™ set designer. Unfortunately, this is a skill set not yet present among any of our pub's patrons.

This room is not as rollicking as the establishment down the street where humorists may be "blue" or "green" depending upon the country of origin, and where no bowdlerization is attempted. However, here at Molly's Pub, Bowdler is a frequent guest, our mithers knit in amiable gaggles, and the wee ones roam the hallways, a trail of popcorn in their wakes. Take care you do not trample one on your way to the Sports Room with the HDTV.

There are many comedians, poets and limerick authors that Kathleen admires. On this page, by and by, a plethora of them shall be duly noted with original limericks in their honor. Humorists, funny poets, limericks writers, and humour writers in general give the public relief from the nightly news, which is often lugubrious—or alternatively—hysterical for all the wrong reasons.

Life is often a circus and humorists are the ringmasters who show us what is funny and why. Without their wit, we would be left to our own devices, chuckling at the use of "nucular" or "irregardless" by persons whose "IVY degrees" might have been expected to innoculate them against such pronouncements—they must have been "legacy."

Now hereabouts, we have from time to time transgressed the King's English as well. In fact, a non-existent word lingers here at the pub at this very moment, which is different from a neologism in that the latter is placed intentionally.

If things settle down a bit, we shall see to expunging it. Howsomever, should you be the very first to find it, we will send you a free copy of our just released book, The Pocket Book of Limericks. Indeed, it is so new it is yet warm from the presses so to speak, nor have we even made the advertisement page for it here at the pub.

Humorists, poets, and limerick authors so honored in these pages may be living or departed, depending only upon Kathleen's whim. If they are departed enough to cede us their corpus (of work, that is), we shall endeavor one day to include a snippet here or there from the great ones.

Until then, we shall stick to our own original reflections on those august personages or those contributions of our good friends who have shared their witticisms merely for your amusement and for the glory of appearing on the walls of http://www.here-be-limerick-poems.com.