This question will probably make me sound ageist and grumpy. In my preemptive defense, let me say:<\/p>\n
1) I’ve been tossing AARP’s annoying magazine for years; and<\/p>\n
2) I am<\/b> grumpy.<\/p>\n
So here’s my question: Have you ever noticed that Andy Rooney isn’t funny anymore?<\/p>\n
I used to be a fan and would never turn 60 Minutes<\/em> off until Rooney’s monologue was over. I even owned one of his humor collections. But I can’t remember the last time Andy Rooney made me laugh … or even giggle. These days his commentaries make me cringe.<\/p>\n Now to those who may argue that I’m<\/strong> not funny either, I say:<\/p>\n CBS doesn’t pay me<\/strong> a gazillion bucks a year to not<\/strong> be funny!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And no, this limerick isn’t funny either:<\/p>\n Have You Ever Noticed… At the risk of incurring some ire: This question will probably make me sound ageist and grumpy. In my preemptive defense, let me say: 1) I’ve been tossing AARP’s annoying magazine for years; and 2) I am grumpy. So here’s my question: Have you ever noticed that Andy Rooney isn’t funny anymore? I used to be a fan and would never turn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,50,42,43,116,71],"tags":[1690,1689,1687,1688,710,454,303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
\nAndy Rooney should really retire.
\nIt’s not that he’s old,
\nAnd I don’t mean to scold,
\nBut he’s funny no more, and it’s dire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"