Humor Me, Son

Despite all the analysis of how Bush 41 and 43 react and deal with each other, their's remains a unique and in many ways inexplicable father-son bond.The most recent example of how other-worldly is their relationship comes with 43's current Decision Points book-tour stop on Fox and Friends. He related what is supposed to be his dad's joke (although the meme "are my testicles black" has been around for a while) with a nurse anecdote from the book. It's black (ball) humor based on poor diction told by a loving son about an adored father. Somewhere in there is a key to the parent-child world of the Bushes. Somewhere. Somewhere ...

Make Room for Me, Too

Marlo Thomas never caught her father trying on her mother's girdle. That was just for the show that paid the bills, Make Room for Daddy (eventually changed to The Danny Thomas Show and on air from 1953-64).



However, That Girl makes clear in her the new memoir/comedy study, Growing Up Laughing, certainly caught his love of humor. In the book she tells tales of what it was really like to make room in her heart for daddy and how she and some famous comedians she talked with developed into the people who make other people laugh.

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Introducing the latest and greatest musical super niche, Christian Suburban Daddy Rap, courtesy of Tulsa, Okla., Church on the Move. Originally produced as part of the mini-mega church's Father's Day celebrations, the song — with highly suggestive lyrics such as, "It's the dad life/It's the dad lifeTake my daughter to the potty/It's the dad life" — is speeding up the charts with all the force of 21-horsepower ride-on lawnmower. It's very, very safe for work:

Hot and Not

Single dads are television heat. First there was Jason Mesnick ramping up The Bachelor's ratings [Earlier: Dad Bads] and now BBC3 is introducing five pops and their kids to a house that last year was only filled with single moms. The resulting, Young Mums' and Dads' Mansion premiered last night with a single mom trying to get her revenge on evil men. The buzz is building.

However, older dads are still funnier. He may not be hot, but John Sadler can certainly bring on the funny. The coroner of Kosciusko (Indiana) County, answered the cops call to pick up his drunk son, the assistant cornoner. He was drunk and the police objected. Both father and son are now in the Whitley County (Indiana) hoosegow for DWI.

Maybe if we could get a mom and daughter in their too, reality TV and hiliarity might ensue?

Hawk

"This mountain stole my father," claims the steely-eyed 30-something. And so begins "The Hawk," described by its documentitians as "one man's journey to face his demons, come to terms with his father's tragic death and fulfill a family legacy that goes back ten generations. And that's all in the first three minutes."

"The Hawk" is the video that takes the sagacity out of saga. Much about it rings true, a son wants to honor his dad on the 25th anniversary of his death — "I'm gonna finish what my dad started. But there are other moments such as when it is announced that if the narrator's ancestor, an American revolutionary war, "...hadn't built this board [snowboard prototype] we'd all be speaking British right now."

Did I mention that the five minutes honoring a father lost while snowboarding is a spoof honored by a snowboarding company hoping to encourage boarders to illegally travel down "ski-only" hills?

** Knock, knock. Who's there? Fathers inspiring [real] humor. **