Hey, look at me. I'm putting up websites. One after another. I can't seem to stop. In fact, I just might give up blogging altogether and just put up websites. Put them up just like a farm wife "puts up pickles" for later. Might as well. Can't dance.
When they started calling them all "comics" I thought the "funny papers" had come to TV or maybe "comic books" had finally gotten on the tube. Back when I was a youngster, a boy who told jokes on TV might have been called a "junior comedian" and a girl who told jokes on TV more than likely would have been called a "comediette" and hardly anybody would have cared.
Retro Comic Spotlight is my latest creation and this website has nothing to do with me or my books or my blogs or any science fiction or comedy creations of mine. Retro Comic Spotlight is my fourth website at Webnode (bless them for putting up with me) and it pays homage to the kings and queens of stand-up comedy, guys and gals who told jokes and funny stories on shows like The Ed Sullivan Show, The Jack Paar Show, The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman. Back in the 20th Century.
Yeah, I was a big fan of 20th Century stand-up comics, back when a man who told jokes was called a "comedian" and a woman who told jokes was called a "comedienne". Nowadays, they think men and women are somehow interchangeable. Hmmph. Not on your life. Yep, they call them all "comics" in the 21st Century. Comics. Not to be confused with the Sunday "funnies".
When they started calling them all "comics" I thought the "funny papers" had come to TV or maybe "comic books" had finally gotten on the tube. Back when I was a youngster, a boy who told jokes on TV might have been called a "junior comedian" and a girl who told jokes on TV more than likely would have been called a "comediette" and hardly anybody would have cared.
Today we'd be knee-deep in "hissy fit" doo-doo and opportunistic, discriminatory lawsuits if we pulled "insensitive" politically-incorrect stunts like that and I guess that's why everything that moves on TV and tells jokes today is called a "comic". I guess that's better than watching a bunch of "comedy persons" on TV. Hell, yes. But I don't know. I kind of miss the old days. Like John Housman said about World War I — as opposed to The Cold War — in the spy movie "Three Days of the Condor": "I miss that kind of clarity."
I just hope they never come out with a joke machine. If they ever do, they'll probably call it a stand-up "comic", even if it looks like a Hoover upright vacuum cleaner. But, hey, I put up another new website this week. And, y'know, I think there's still a little bit of room on that shelf.
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