From time to time someone I work with encourages me to think about becoming a Comedian.  He thinks I am hilariously funny and suggests it is because I was 48 years in Canada before moving here.  He isn’t alone, my Dentist and his staff look forward to my visits, and are ready for a good laugh as I amuse then a lot.  At my church I am the lead jester for sure, and have been introduced there as the resident comedian.

So I have lately been actually thinking of becoming a Comedian, wondering if that is my calling.  I realized right away that self employed Comedians don’t have health insurance as a rule, or disability insurance unless they can buy it, dont have preexisting conditions, and can afford it.  My mind leapt ahead as it does, and I wondered how would a Comedian need to collect on disability insurance?  Of course!  If a Comedian loses his sense of humor, then obviously he is disabled.

So now, picture the diagnostic tests which the psychiatric professionals will want to use in order to determine if someone has truly lost all of their sense of humor!  Would they hire clowns and comedians to perform, show the subject old 3 Stooges films and Monty Python files, Laugh In, I Love Lucy, Jerry Seinfeld?  With the subject all wired up to a lie detector looking for any response to punch lines?

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