I'm gratified to see all types of comedy are offered by LaughFest. We have Yiddish Theater at the Dog Story Theater. We have improv all over, including River City Improv and the Pop Scholars. We have Margaret Cho in a big performance and hopefully Wade Rouse reading at Schuler's Books for the Literary Humor. Wade just kills with his Erma Bombeck gone wild essays. Kill is a good term. It means the audience laughs so hard they bend over double with laughter but are fully capable of leaving room when the comic stops talking. We have comedy that is clean as comedy can be clean. We have Christian comedy from the Master Arts Theater, one of my favorite troupes in the area. We have laughter in the Yoga classroom, which probably includes lots of deep, deep breathing. We're even going to laugh at feminine undergarments, which I believe are for sale after the yuk yuks.
We have comics and painters, putt putters and artists and comics, and even comics at the symphony. We even are exploring connections between healing and laughter, and some days, laughter is the only medication and the only exercise I get.
Who left out the roast? I browsed through all the days, and nothing looks roasty, meaning one person is singled out as guest of "honor" for a single evening whilst all their friends read testimonials, yeah that's the ticket, about them. We have roasts on Comedy Central. We have roasts at the Friar's Club. Why are we roasting nobody for the Laugh Fest in Grand Rapids? In general, a roast should be savage and insulting, making the roasted want to leave the room if it weren't for everyone having a good time. So why don't we create a kinder and gentler roast for Grand Rapids Laugh Fest. We can leave it entirely online, too. So here's a plan. People in Grand Rapids can volunteer to be roasted. Before going to print, we'll give him or her a chance to read it over. If it's not cool, we'll toss it out. Maybe we'll pick up some self-effacing humor along the way. We can generate a great deal of laughs just by caricature, taking the notable's qualities and blowing them up to absurd size. For example, what would happen in the well-meaning Lisa Rose Starner put a bee hive and an organic garden on top of every flat topped roof in Grand Rapids? The idea is to generate a great deal of laughter and room hugs by the end. Are you in? I would like to publish one a day until the festival's close.
Roast on the West Coast?
Thank You Rhymer
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