Carnie's Comments
This is what we call the daily commentary. It's "Carnie's Comments".
I write and recite it with an eye on keeping it to around 60 seconds. I've been doing it for about 15 years now.
Sometimes I talk about serious issues that impact you and me but lately I've been trying to keep it light. We need more jocularity in our lives, don't we?
I wondered how having more fun might be accepted by listeners and those who read the piece on our local news website and then I got a timely email from a guy named George.
"I am a casual reader of your column and lately I've been very amused by them. The stories are really funny," he wrote.
George said a couple of the pieces had him "in stiches" and both "could be successful stand-up bits".
He also suggested putting a book together with a collection of the "best, funniest and most memorable stories".
In fact, George said he'd "buy and enjoy it".
Thanks, George. I needed that.
You know what else I need? An agent. George?