Distance Enough For Humour?

The right distance for humour is always farther
between people than we like to think. 

Humour Is The Best Medicine

I listen to news bulletins quite a lot.
When the news is bad, repetitive,
and about events I cannot change or stop
I listen with lowered concentration.
Given how hard the content is to process
the bulletins are depressing all ways round.

But I marvel at the comedy shows
that use the scalpel of sharp humour
to dissect the news for me, they reveal so much
that the formal repetitions in the bulletins obscure,
with an elegance and grace that makes listen afresh.
  

Paws For Thought

If dogs ever took out
romantic personal ads
in the back of periodicals,
to find each other, sociably,
would their adverts always end
with the phrase 'Must have G.S.O.S.'
(good sense of smell) ?

Humour is for humans
what a sense of smell is to dogs
-both enrich companionship.