Sometimes the letters to the editor are funnier than the funnies. Here’s a guy who wrote in to the Lowell Sun complaining about a comedy bit. A comedy bit? Now THAT’S funny! As a big fan of “Whose Line is it Anyway,” these guys bring humor to television and stage in the tradition of the many great variety shows we all grew up with. And laughed with. Now, if Sonny and Cher or Flip Wilson only had a few segments on crime scene investigations or stranded wannabe millionaires, it would have …. been not funny.
No humor found in comedians’ pain
The Lowell SunAt the end of what had been a funny evening of improvisational comedy at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium this weekend, things turned sadistic.
Comedians Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood walked blindfolded and barefoot on a stage covered with live mousetraps, and ended up throwing them at each other. The traps and the pain were real; the packed house laughed like it was the funniest thing they ever saw. I walked out, but I want to know what it says about our fellow citizens that they thought two people inflicting pain on each other in that manner was so funny.
PETER NELSON
Chelmsford
