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To: Ish who wrote (180325)	9/13/2001 11:11:37 AM
From: calgal	Respond to of 769667

The humor will return. Just not yet. Steve Young: jewishworldreview.com -- MY business is humor; comedy, satire. I create it. I write about others who create it. I wake up every morning, take a look at the newspaper, the Internet and the television to see what my kind of weird, off-center, sometimes sick perspective, can do with any of it. This morning I woke up at 4:30 AM PST and tried to do what I do every morning. Only today my mind wasn't buzzing with how I can make something funny. That part of me had been is locked out. Shelved for a time. It's happened before. When my father died, when the Kennedys and Martin Luther King were assassinated. When the Challenger went down. When the loved Philadelphia weatherman, Jim O'Brien fell to his death. And now. Tuesday. There's a hole in New York, a hole in Washington, a hole in America, in humanity's soul. That hole must be where humor once lived. I say once because I don't feel funny right now. I know it will return. It always does. There will be no Jay Leno monologue tonight; no David Letterman; their shows canceled. Our country's funnymen are now just men. They had lost the funny. For the moment. They'll be funny again. Just not yet. Not now. Hollywood shut down production. Laptops closed. Pencils down. Entertainment, humor on hiatus. No Will, no Grace, no Dharma, no Greg. No Mad TV. Only a mad world. There's no room for jokes about our president today. Only support. No song parodies about the Congress and the Senate. Only America The Beautiful. There's a tendency among comedians, among many of us, to find humor in most any situation. It's the built-in defense mechanism that keeps us from feeling our feelings. It also works to get us out of the pit of despair where we cannot survive for long: after a funeral, back at the house where we're meant to sit and soothe the family; where we're meant to honor one's passing. Inevitably, the talk moves to those moments in the life of the deceased where humor lived. Breaking through the tears there is laughter. Laughter because we're human. Some of us are. And we will continue to be. Just not yet. We have to bury our family members. We have to feel the feelings. We have to grieve. The humor will return. The late night comics will return. The Internet will inevitably be filled with lists of sick jokes. We will hear more laughter. It's what we do. Just not yet. Not now. We'll always have our humor. It's part of humanity's strength. But right now, there's a hole. A hole in New York's skyline. A hole where the humor once lived. The hole where humor will live once again. Just not yet. Not now. jewishworldreview.com