Jokes

At the 1991 MTV Music Awards PeeWee Herman returned to the public spotlight after a humiliating arrest in an adult theater months earlier and asked the crowd (use your best Pee Wee voice in your head), "Heard any good jokes lately?" The crowd gave Pee Wee a standing ovation, but the MTV crowd is a more forgiving bunch. Pee Wee's misdemeanor arrest for, well, let's just call it a victimless crime, cost him his TV show, product sponsorship and his relationship with NBC and MGM-Disney.

Holly Henson, artistic director of Pioneer Playhouse, got a chance to thaw out from the Minnesota winter. Last month, she left her home to bask in the California sunshine for a weekend. Henson was the headliner at the American Culinary Institute convention in San Francisco. The comedian's assignment was to mix together jokes salted with a cooking theme. Montgomery named to country music board Eddie Montgomery of Boyle County has been named to the Academy of Country Music board in the artist category.

Director Lawrence Lesher was right when he named playwright Neil Simon, author of Pioneer Playhouse's newest offering, as the father of the American sitcom. Simon's "The Odd Couple (Female Version)" is chock-full of flying verbal witticisms, larger-than-life characters, bizarre situations and plenty of laughs. The scenario is simple enough: Stick neat-freak Florence Unger (Patricia Hammond) in an apartment with slob and sports junkie Olive Madison (Synge Maher), and madness ensues.

The Winchester Sun's youngest readers now have the chance to show off their creativity thanks to a new addition to the paper. Kids Korner is a new daily feature that offers games, riddles, jokes, puzzles, comics and other content designed for kids and, of course, kids at heart. The Sun is currently taking submissions from area children for the feature. Anyone interested in submitting their own pictures, comics, jokes or drawings should e-mail them to kidskorner@winchestersun.

Dear Editor, I was heartened to read the apology offered by the Shady Creek Band concerning the joke told at the Constitution Square Fest. I know that the organizers of the festival in no way endorse such commentary and took steps to prevent any more from occurring. I left the stands as soon as I heard it, but I am not so certain about others who were listening. Danville and Boyle County, we are much better than this. Whether via jokes or letters to the editor, it is possible to disagree on issues and yes, even values, without malice or racial and religious stereotyping.

Outgoing superintendent Dr. Ed Musgrove jokes with Annette Beck, left, Tracy Deaton, middle, Carol Elliott and Jean Patton during a reception for him Thursday. Musgrove, who will be moving to Arkansas next week said he had enjoyed his time in Clark County. "Today has been a good chance to share some memories of the good times we've had over the last three years. I've met some of the best people I'll ever meet in my life here in Clark County. I'm glad I got a chance to be here the last three years, and I have no regrets whatsoever," Musgrove said.

Scotty Weaver has learned at lot in the last three years working at the Two Roads Cafe in Danville. In the beginning, he learned how to wash dishes quickly and put them away in the right places. Then he mastered making sandwiches and other deli items and the special sauce for the Hot Browns. Now, he's working his way through the cakes and pastries, becoming a baker as well as a "deli specialist" and a dishwasher. But if Weaver has done a lot of learning at Two Roads, he's done his share of teaching, too, say Two Roads owners Kathy Crown-Weber and Jerry Houck.

Everyone knows the kind of person who answers his phone during a movie and talks during the performance. But it might come as a surprise there were five of those kind of people at Tuesday’s premiere of Pioneer Playhouse’s newest play, “For Better,” and they were all members of the cast. “For Better” is the Playhouse’s most experimental performance of the season. The vast majority of the play consists of cell phone conversations between five technology addicts and an older man who just wants to be allowed to watch his “Kojak” reruns in peace.

Last Lenten season I asked an area minister what he was sacrificing. He said, "In my denomination, lint is something you find under your bed or in a dryer. " We got a good chuckle out of the minister's play on words, and he did agree with my comment that homonyms often are used in his homilies. But while we are in an area heavily populated by Baptists and other Protestant denominations which pay little or no attention to Lent, there are a few who do, such as Catholics, Episcopalians and some Lutherans.

Anela Kinkade, 12, is precisely the age when hairstyle starts to matter to girls - a lot. Knowing this adds even more value to what Anela, a student at Boyle County Middle School, did in front of a cheering crowd (and her hysterical mother) during a St. Baldrick's Foundation event at Centre College in late April. Anela was attending the event with her mother Niki, brother Charlie, sister Evey and father John, who is a professor at Centre. “I asked my mom if I could have my head shaved, too, to donate to help kids with cancer,” Anela said.

Democratic candidate Bob Farmer should not be given the honor of serving the commonwealth as our commissioner of agriculture. I’m not one who is generally offended by comedy routines, even when they use humorous stereotypes — most often depicting those of us who grew up in rural areas with a little levity. But after hearing Farmer’s insulting comedy routine about the folks in Eastern Kentucky, which he has apparently been performing for more than two decades, I was appalled. His apology doesn’t restore his apparent inability to hold the state’s top farm job. Farmer apparently joked about feeling uncomfortable in the eastern part of the state saying, “I didn’t really understand how I stood out. I may as well been from New York City … they didn’t trust me. You know, I had shoes on, got all my teeth.” One of his worst wisecracks was when he joked that the FBI doesn’t like to go to eastern Kentucky, explaining, “You know I said, how come the FBI won’t do any work down in this county?

Two years ago Friday, John Calipari was introduced as the men’s basketball coach at the University of Kentucky. At the time of his hiring, the program was coming off a rare appearance in the NIT and a rocky two-year tenure under Billy Gillispie. With Gillispie at the helm, the Wildcats went 40-27 and appeared to be headed in the wrong direction and failed to return to the forefront on the collegiate scene. Calipari wanted the job when Gillispie was hired in 2007, but waited two more seasons before the Kentucky administration took a chance on him. Calipari, known as a fearless recruiter, with a reputation of landing the nation’s top prep players, rebuilt the program in a matter of months.

Everyone knows the kind of person who answers his phone during a movie and talks during the performance. But it might come as a surprise there were five of those kind of people at Tuesday’s premiere of Pioneer Playhouse’s newest play, “For Better,” and they were all members of the cast. “For Better” is the Playhouse’s most experimental performance of the season. The vast majority of the play consists of cell phone conversations between five technology addicts and an older man who just wants to be allowed to watch his “Kojak” reruns in peace.

At the 1991 MTV Music Awards PeeWee Herman returned to the public spotlight after a humiliating arrest in an adult theater months earlier and asked the crowd (use your best Pee Wee voice in your head), "Heard any good jokes lately?" The crowd gave Pee Wee a standing ovation, but the MTV crowd is a more forgiving bunch. Pee Wee's misdemeanor arrest for, well, let's just call it a victimless crime, cost him his TV show, product sponsorship and his relationship with NBC and MGM-Disney.

Dear Editor, I was heartened to read the apology offered by the Shady Creek Band concerning the joke told at the Constitution Square Fest. I know that the organizers of the festival in no way endorse such commentary and took steps to prevent any more from occurring. I left the stands as soon as I heard it, but I am not so certain about others who were listening. Danville and Boyle County, we are much better than this. Whether via jokes or letters to the editor, it is possible to disagree on issues and yes, even values, without malice or racial and religious stereotyping.

Outgoing superintendent Dr. Ed Musgrove jokes with Annette Beck, left, Tracy Deaton, middle, Carol Elliott and Jean Patton during a reception for him Thursday. Musgrove, who will be moving to Arkansas next week said he had enjoyed his time in Clark County. "Today has been a good chance to share some memories of the good times we've had over the last three years. I've met some of the best people I'll ever meet in my life here in Clark County. I'm glad I got a chance to be here the last three years, and I have no regrets whatsoever," Musgrove said.