Too often, we forget that comedians can be very serious, having profound insight, possessing the skills to share those insights, moving and stirring the emotions of those who listen, reminding us of essential truths, providing us again with an understanding of what is important.  I see early  comedians such as Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Sid Ceasar, Ernie Kovacs, and others as the models for more recent comedians who also seek to share serious information (e.g., Bill Cosby, and the late George Carlin).  Men and women who have the skill to make us laugh are able to do so because they possess insight: regarding these professional "clowns" as "mere clowns" in a pejorative sense misses the point of their genius.

GLEN ROCK — A Hawthorne man was arraigned in municipal court Tuesday for the aggravated assault of his girlfriend’s ex-husband, who remains hospitalized and unconscious in critical condition with multiple facial fractures and kidney failure.


CARMINE GALASSO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Buy this photoThomas Neville was read the assault charge and his rights and then sent back to the Bergen County Jail. Thomas Neville, 50, of Dixie Avenue, Hawthorne, was read the assault charge and his rights by Glen Rock Municipal Court Judge Russel Teschon, then sent back to the Bergen County Jail

Cindyv wrote on May 18^th, 2010 at 10:32am:


Anybody know this guy?