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.

Erma Bombeck

Erma could zing perfect come-back
To life's bitter moments. Her spot-check
Found every loose thread
Making humor from dread
Approach your life like Erma Bombeck.

Garrison Keillor

So enthralled I'm with Garrison Keillor
Lake Woebegone's son and scene-stealer
Who himself limericks
To his friends just for kicks
Because humor's a powerful healer.

Jerry Seinfeld

Some humorist, that Jerry Seinfeld
In stand-up, his audience spell-held.
We all reminisce
How much we miss this,
A sitcom a little bit hard-shelled

At any rate, undeterred, and moving on to other pastures, here's a parody on Joyce Kilmer's famous poem, Trees.

Humorists here in the pub play to prime time. Others shall be tacked up on the wall, as is our wont. By the by, do you know our patron Edward Lear?

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 inoculate 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 hot from the presses and we are reduced to using potholders.

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.">Here Be Limerick Poems

So, I'm throwing my hat in the ring as a humorist. Imagine how different things were, Once Upon a Time."

Lear and Me

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