Reading Bruce Dessau's 'Beyond a Joke' - it's
A history of flawed comedians from
Grimaldi to nowadays, sketches, skits
Physical slapstick, wit and bust and boom
Psychological flaws and crowded rooms
Smoke-filled nightmares turned into big money
Focused on big names heading towards doom
Their dark sides fuelled their creativity
Aggressively chasing approval, we
Fly off cliffs like cartoon villains, then shoot
Rapidly down as we see there's no firm
Ground below, there never was, infancy
Comes back to haunt us in nightly visits
Like Hamlet, we equivocate and spin
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