good comedy Warning!

"This comedy will make you laugh very hard and without warning, so please don't drink or eat during show time. Do so at your own risk or only if you are skilled enough to eat or drink without swallow. We have tested the comedy on a group of 20 people, 2 of which choked to death from eating and drinking while laughing out loud, very loud"

Silence is gold but laugh can be fatal. I don't know if it's possible to ban eating and drinking in the movies, especially in comedies, but I happened to witness a couple choking to death from laughing out loud while eating and drinking since the start of the movie. Sounds crazy but it wasn't funny to hear them choking and patting each other in the back. Not that a warning in the beginning of the movie will avert a potential choking but at least there will be no excuse that people were not warned!

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Beware Greeks inspiring sex strikes!

I read on the news that women in Kenya are on sex strike to force the government and opposition to stop bickering and look after the interest of their country. Although I've never been to Kenya, I think the news tell us that women must have no political power in that country. Why would they use sex to bring political change otherwise? In the article I read that the strike was inspired by Ancient Greece. In Aristophane's comedy Lysistrata, the ladies of 5th century BC Athens withheld sex from their menfolk to force them to put an end to the Peloponnesian war!

I must admit I haven't read Aristophane's original guide to a sex strike, but I have the following two observations to make. First, it is well known that homosexuality was strongly practiced in Ancient Greece, so how effective could a sex strike really have been? Second, assuming the strike can be very effective, could It have been the culprit that drove men into homosexuality?

If Aristophane's comedy was an inspiration to women in Kenya, my advice is to be careful about how long they carry out the strike. Ancient Greece was the bastion of homosexuality so it might not be the best example to follow :)

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text chat comedy

i have a friend in another country whose emails always make me laugh. whenever we text chat he always finds funny ways to crack me up just typing text and smileys. currently he is out of job so we spend a lot of time talking to each other. i suggested to him to use his skill in creative writing to entertain people. place an online ad for live online comedy delivered in writing as a new form of entertainment. do you think it's a good idea? people pay to see stand-up comedy and laugh, why not consider a few laughs in writing. what's your view?


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