Some nights I just can't get to sleep. That was the case last night. I was up at midnight watching the late shows and Letterman had Don Rickles and Regis Philbin as guests. Rickles has never been one of my favorite comedians. His humor seems kind of mean spirited to me.Making fun of a person and then saying, "I'm just kidding", seems to me to be insincere. The joker picks something they see as strange or wrong about a person and they are off to the races with the jokes. When this is done in front of others it can be embarrassing. Yes, I've been joked about, as probably everyone reading this has. No one seems to be immune. It's not really fun, and even less so when you see that something "strange" in yourself and now attention is being drawn to it in front of others.
Rickles has made a sizable fortune from his humor so I guess some people like it. I'm just sayin I don't. I don't want to embarrass other people; I don't want to pick on any obvious "sore" spots they may have about themselves. Does a person who is shorter than most others really need to hear jokes about it? Does a man about to get married really to need to hear any more jokes about what he's giving up?
We gain so much when we let others hold on to their dignity.
Pic.. New York City's Central park. Imagine a world where only love existed and was shared.
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