Bricks Ha!Ha!
by Steve Wardrip
What’s so funny about a brick wall?
Is it about to fall?
C’mon, tell the truth,
Is it on the border or something?
Every Comedy Club, Every Stage,
Has one of these… and people laugh.
Why do people laugh at brick walls?
Sometimes comedians stand in front of them.
My sister and I will never forget,
One night long ago in Lower Manhattan,
At Rodney Dangerfield’s Comedy Club,
When a lady went to the ladies room then what he did.
Well, she had been blowing smoke into his face,
Sitting there right in front of the stage, close,
So, when she left, he pretended to spit in her drink,
And looked at the audience and said “Shhh! Don’t tell!”
She came back, took her seat and everyone laughed,
She didn’t know why and Dangerfield started saying,
“Sometime I get respect. It just comes out of nowhere,
All I have to do is stand here and people just laugh.”
“It must be the brick wall. Why do people laugh?
Because of the schmuck who had to stand there all damn day,
and pick up each and every brick, and stack and mortar it?
Because he had to work his ass off and you get to live inside the brick house?”
No, the brick wall is laughed at because it is just that, a brick wall,
A brick wall, you can’t penetrate, You can’t climb,
You can be thrown up against it, lined up, frisked, executed,
The brick wall is solid, It’s not going anywhere. That’s why we laugh at it.
