Now that’s not funny!

Posted by Rod Hamilton on Jun 06 2008

It occurred to me, as I read some very funny things on the internet, that to this date the things I’ve posted on this blog were not very funny. Gladly, I wasn’t trying to be humorous, so I didn’t fail at being humorous.

Now I realize that prefacing a journal entry and highlighting the fact that you will now attempt to be funny is, in and of itself, comedic suicide. It’s sort of like telling the world you’re a 5′6″ 238 lb high jumper (those ARE NOT my vitals, BTW) and then proving it by jumping over an empty Folgers can - the 1 pound, not the 5 pound.

At this point, many might just skip the effort and go on and link to something verifiably funny - time tested and laughter approved. Not me, and that might be a mistake. And, if half way through I find that it is, I’ll simply link you to something that is verifiably funny.

OK. I can’t do it. I guess I’m just much better live, if I’m actually ever funny at all. In fact, the last 5 minutes of my life, while attempting to create from scratch something that is funny, might well have been among the most excruciatingly painful moments of my life. I would compare it to the moments immediately following the realization that I have no idea of the next verse of a song smack in the middle of a worship set. Not the moment when you deal with the fact that you can’t remember the verse and choose to improvise, but the one where the verse hasn’t gotten there yet and you know you won’t remember it when it does and you search frantically through your mind and audience to find some hint of what the next verse might be but with no idea what you’ll say when you open your mouth. Unfortunately, without a large screen in the back of a worship center, I have more of those moments than I care to mention.

All of that in mind, I want to link you this week to something I found particularly funny. Maybe it’s funny because I scored low. But let me tell you; I just came back from a Darlene Zschech and Hillsong worship conference in North Carolina and I saw many worship leaders who scored very high on this indeed. It added an interesting sociological study time to what was already a great event. Go ahead, read the link, but do not judge me!

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