This Is Great

At first I thought that this was distasteful. You are not able to make a comedy involving the mentally handicapped. The reason being is that if you want the audience to laugh then its all too easy to just go for the easy laughs and make fun of the people you are acting as or writing in there. Though the more I read it the more I discovered that what I heard about comedy is true. Its funny no matter what. That caused me to reflect on how I approach something that is so near and dear to who I am as a person and to the craft that I have spent years attempting to perfect and am still trying to work out. I often resort to degrading the people I am trying to make laugh. I am beginning to realize that comedy has so much more of a potential to become another art form and slowly is working its way in that direction. I look at art and art does not degrade a person. It has a way of lifting you up or taking you to a low but does not outright attack a person. So with that applied to my craft I realize that though it is easier to degrade someone in the name of comedy. I have been inspired to take what I do to a new level, to make my enjoyment of humor an escape to those of everyday life, to become the reason a person smiles breaking a chain of frowns. To fulfill the potential that God himself has set before me to move away from the juvenile comedy as a way of laughter through the degradation of a creation made in his image and more towards an escape from the reality that the person I am with is currently in, to a new and happier place and even if for a second it was long enough for me to have changed that person's outlook on that moment and changes the glass which they look through to one that is lighter.