Humor Brief

To brighten your day, we offer some of the wit and wisdom of Bill Cosby...

A word to the wise ain't necessary – it's the stupid ones who need the advice.

"Don't worry about senility," my grandfather used to say. "When it hits you, you won't know it."

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. Think about your father. You ask him to do something, he messes it up, and your mother sends you: "Go down and see what your father's doing before he blows up the house." He's a genius at work because he doesn't want to do it, and knows someone will be coming soon to stop him.

I am not the boss of my house. I don't know when I lost it. I don't know if I ever had it. But I have seen the boss's job and I do not want it.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."

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For the Health of It:  Aristotle said that tragedy depicts man at his most noble, and comedy depicts man at his most base. That may be largely true, but we at HAHA believe that the purpose of comedy can be noble. We should all be more like the clown or comedian who helps us to laugh at frustrations and foibles, and to try again when we fail.


This Jest In:  Nov. 23 8:00pm see Bill Cosby live in the Seneca Events Center << www.senecaniagaracasino.com/seneca-events-center.cfm >>.

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