What Makes Me Laugh

I'm joining in the July P.E.O.D. Chapbook Memoir Challenge at Poetic Bloomings. This (a bit late!) is for July 1st: Laugh, Laugh.

What Makes Me Laugh?

My funnybone gets ticklish

at the ridiculous

plus anything quirky

(and that’s no malarkey). 

A shaggy dog story

also does it for me.

But slapstick or farce –

sorry, I’ll pass.

Adore Rowan Atkinson,

loathe Mr Bean;

I prefer the badder

wit of Blackadder.

Love me a Goon,

also a Python.

I relish the movies of PJ Hogan,

while Kath and Kim are wickedly Bogan.

The amazing Chris Lilley

is brilliant, not silly.

But the absolute kingpin

is Mr Tim Minchin.

See, it’s the satirical

gets me hysterical!