For once, I left the funny out.
First of all, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking...”Jim, even when you try to be funny you usually leave the funny out”. And I would, you know, probably have to (grudgingly) agree with you. But when I'm writing one of my weekly TV pieces I usually try to have a gag or two in place, even if those gags either get cut during editing, get usurped by a crack not yet haven eaten a pasty, or (sadly) fall flat.
But not last night's TV piece. Nope; I actually went into it thinking that I'd forsake the jokes for a little poetic license, apt seeing as how the topic was the changing color of trees throughout the UP. As to whether or not I succeeded in that poetry might be up to the viewer, but as I was writing it this past weekend I added not a joke to it...
Until, of course, my inner 11-year old took over and made the adult me type the word “yellow” in the script. But for the most part, I'd like to think that I was able to accomplish what I set out to do.
Check it out for yourself--
I'm sure that next week I'll be back to cracking gags about Bigfoot, the lack of an “R” in Ishpeming, and, yes, even about yellow snow. But every so often, it's nice to change it up, if even just a little bit.
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