HUMOROUS EXTRACTS


 
Franklin Roosevelt defends his dog (1 min 53 secs)
In his 1944 election campaign, Roosevelt opened the campaign with a speech to the tough cookies of the Teamsters Union. Note his wonderful timing. It has been said that the stoniest of Republican faces cracked into a smile, and that this speech even turned the election for him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqt7b9veFo8

 

An elephant plays the Blues (2 mins 11 secs)
An elephant joins a blues player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMIWE2hryZc

 

Clever donkey solves a problem (30 secs)
Clever donkey finds smarter way to get to other side of fence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO5XYp–joI

 

Book (3 mins 20 secs)
A splendid Spanish joke about the digital age. It continues to make me laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhcPX1wVp38&feature=channel_video

 

Bird and Fortune (approx 9 mins)
Outstanding comedy about corporate greed; and (considering the date it was recorded) remarkably prescient.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJmTCYmo9g

 

Juju the English Bulldog Rolling Down the Hill (1 min 8 secs)
Absurd that this gives me so much pleasure; but it does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5al5tVnqITI

 

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