Funny Bones?

The phrase 'Funny Bones' usually conjures up images of bumped elbows, or can be used as a description of a favourite comedian.

Tell you what though - it's difficult being funny all the time. Funny 'Ha Ha' not funny 'Odd'. I'm the latter far more than the former.

All the great comedians and comediennes I've ever read about don't seem to be that funny after all. Sad in fact. All had some kind of trauma in their deepest, darkest childhood that causes them to 'act up' when in front of an audience. The funnier they are, the deeper the hurt inside.

I'm not funny. I can't tell a joke to save my life. I can't even remember many jokes at all, let alone re-tell them in a comical manner.

So the phrase 'Funny Bones' could mean something else then? 'Funny' as applied to the general career of being 'Odd'. 'Bones' signifying 'Death'.

Leading you all gently to my logical conclusion then, 'Funny Bones', to me anyway, means Dead Odd. Seems to apply to some of the sketches on Little Britain. Shooting Stars even.

I've picked up a good piece of advice for all the newly-crowned TV Comics though, and it comes from one of the finest, subtlest, wittiest men to have ever lived since Shakespeare.

"Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade" - Noel Coward.

Shame I don't like fish. Love Jaffas though. Safer.

Sergei