Write for Comedians? How about Photoshopping for them?

As you've figured out by now, Photoshop is one of my hobbies...it's hard to resist creating realistic parodies and making goofy gags.

I toss 'em here, on Facebook, on Twitter, as email attachments...it's a compulsion. I get an idea and have to take a few moments to make the visualization come to life.

So, Fred Stoller does a joke about how he doesn't fully understand "Game of Thrones," but he does get the nudity.

And I instantly had a picture in my mind of Fred actually IN a "Game of Thrones" nude scene...

So I shot it off to Fred, who gave me a "Ha!" and aha...it turned up on Facebook.

Johnny Carson used to "stay in practice" writing jokes and faxing them to David Letterman. Steve Allen told me that a lot of jokes that he thought up, that were maybe too tasteless or strange for him to use, he'd hand off to other comics. (That probably included his line about meeting a guy suffering from acromegaly and asking "Why the long face?")

Neil Simon once told me, and come to think of it, Steve Allen did as well, that "funny" can be a curse. People say something to you, and you come up with a wisecrack...either spoken or unspoken. You're in the shower and some hilarious idea hits you and you have to keep repeating it or get out and go write it down, sopping wet. So lots of times I get comic mental images that, fortunately, I can make into reality via Photoshop. For a moment, these things seem real, and it would take hours to do a realistic drawing of it.

PS, for ME to do a realistic drawing, it would take weeks. Maybe months. I abandoned any notion of being a freelance cartoonist years ago...having published maybe three or four in as many years...

Cats are Smart

Typo Positive: London Daily Fail -- on Animal Anatomy

They don't call the Daily Mail the "Daily Fail" for nothing.

The story is about an astonishing YouTube video: a little boy is attacked by a neighbor's dog...and his cat comes to the rescue, chasing the dog away.

Oh, maybe a few Twitter fans get it...

UPDATE

I don't think anybody got it. Ya see, the fried egg is a hashtag...

Uh, #friedegg is what they call a hashtag, and it's on a platter of hash...

I know, if you have to explain it...

ANN COULTER MOCKS NIGERIAN CAPTIVES

Oh, that Ann Coulter, she's like a menopausal Miley Cyrus. She loves to shock...but never in a good way.

Recently she mocked Michelle Obama who held up a sign protesting the kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls by a psycho murderous Muslim cult called Boko Haram. Take back kidnapped women? Hell...Ann's sign, making no sense really, changed the subject and snarked, "Take Back Our Country."

Since then most everyone's made their own version of Ann and her sign. Here are three more...and three more...why, soitanly!

MOTHER'S DAY

Typo Positive: Sex Scandal? Watch out, your name could be...Dirt!

This isn't a typo...it's just an amusing bit of irony.

When you're involved in a smutty sex story that makes the news...a middle name like this doesn't help...

Ronan Farrow Hasn't Twittered about his Perv Uncle Jailed for 10 Years

How quiet, the metrosexual mama's boy Ronan Farrow, he of a low-rated cable talk show.

Usually he has a lot to snark about. Any time Woody Allen is up for an award, or if it's Father's Day, depend on Ronan to Tweet about it.

Somehow his pervert uncle isn't worth a Tweet, or a shriek to any newspaper gossip columnists sympathetic to the coy boy and Mama Mia.

Have you heard much about the perv uncle? No. Even his sentencing was minor news or no news at all. Yet any time Woody Allen is intruded upon (attending a museum event, a basketball game, or just walking down the street) somebody's there to photograph him and somewhere there's bound to be a reminder that as far as Ronan, Mama Mia and Dylan are concerned, he should be shunned by everyone on their say-so. Even Diane Keaton is being hounded any time she's in the public eye, asked why she defends Woody.

But the story of the perv Farrow? Nah. Don't go there.

Aside from Mr. Communication, given his own TV show because Mama Mia decided he should have one, Dylan Farrow and Mia Farrow have also been silent about Mia's brother. No Tweets. No indignant statements. And no reporters seem to be running up to them asking, "Do you forgive this guy? Do you think he's an utter creep who should be shunned by society? Are you planning on visiting him in prison? Do you disown him? Do you think nobody should ever mention his name again and that if he has any friends, they should cease to be his friends?"

The few news accounts of the pedophile Farrow...do not contain any comment from Dylan, Mama Mia or Ronan.

It seems a bit strange that a family that abhors pedophilia and advocates that someone suspected...not convicted...be shunned by society on their say-so, has no comment to make on a member of their own family who is now in jail for that offense.