The Talmud = Key to belly-hurting humor

"This could be very funny," a Jewish writer of comedy, told me.  "But it isn't."

Duh.  I had submitted what I thought was a satiric piece on the healthcare system in the U.S. to a site which will launch next year.  Like all the deeply wounded, I consider I know my way around comedy.  Well, I didn't.

The witer gave me a 130-second tutorial on comedy writing, which he could charge premium rates for a course sponsored on Mediabistro.com.  The lessons all went to the heart of Jewish humor which derives from the pile-up of seemingly logical but absurd arguments of the Talmud.   On the surface it all seems to make sense.  That's where the belly-hurting screams of laughter come from.  

The Talmud is the must-read in Judaism, just like the Baltimore Catechism was in my school-girl days of Roman Catholicism.  The Talmud records the pompous deconstructions by the rabbinical set regarding Jewish everything, be it the law, ethics, or the meaning of meaning.  They are self-assured, smug, and so hell-bent on supposed logic.

So, I re-worked that piece into an absurd presentation of evidence [see my legal blog http://lawandmore.typepad.com] that the medical community has finally seen the light on interventions ... Well, you will read it on that site in 2112. 

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Catechism was in my school-girl days of Roman Catholicism. The Talmud records the pompous deconstructions by the rabbinical set regarding Jewish everything, be it the law, ethics, or the meaning of meaning. They are self-assured, smug, and so hell-bent on supposed logic.