am i funny? and i don't mean my looks!

so i've been catching random pieces of kathy griffin's show, "my life on the d-list" and just the other night i was watching a portion of her stand-up routine "kathy griffin is not...nicole kidman". this woman makes me want to jump up and down she's so freakin' funny.

ok, let me explain to you how much i love comedy and how much i love to laugh. seriously though, i love sports and i love music and i love really good comedy. i respond to comedy in the same way i respond to an amazing play in a baseball game, or to an exceptionally good piece of music. i cheer. sometimes i stand up, sometimes i clap, sometimes i yell, sometimes i just pump my fist in the air, but always, i cheer. laughter is truly medicine for the soul. i do believe that. which is why i try to find the comedy in everything, including my own life and drama. i call this blog, "my life as a dramedy" for that very reason. while my episodes are very real and intense to me, having journalized my thoughts and experiences enough over the past (almost 3) decades, i have learned that my life is just funny. it's not emmy winning comedy funny, but it's funny nonetheless.

we as women are funny. our reactions, our responses, our impulses, our everything, we're just funny. it's when we take everything so seriously that we begin to falter and stress out. now, i am, by no means, advocating that we sluff off our responsibilities and become blissfully ignorant of reality. no, i am actually saying that we need to take a few deep breaths now and then and occasionally those deep breaths should be induced by laughter.

like in everything, there's a balance to be had. we should constantly be aiming for that perfect balance and enjoy "the comedy" of the intermittent stooge-esque tumble. i have to admit, some of my heroines in life are those women that incite laughter throughout all of life's circumstances.

lucille ball was a prime example of this, and kathy griffin seems to continue to emulate that spirit. maybe it's in the red hair, or maybe it's something else. who knows? all i know is that i want to be that funny, that real, that entertaining, and that intelligent. and that's just in my every-day life.

i wish i had the chops to be a stand-up comedienne. maybe someday, maybe...