The Friday Funnies! Allium Makeup Ain’t no Joke!

In 46 years of performing in local theater productions, I’ve learned this: there’s always one wiseacre who finds pleasure in practical jokes.

I submit the following snap as evidence.

The place, Gulfport Little Theater’s makeup room.

The production, the 1976 production of The Music Man.

The practical joke, industrial-strength allium in my cold-cream jar. For a week thereafter, my face was so tight it was nothing but eyes and teeth.

Don’t forget to laugh today. As Lucy Maude Montgomery of Anne of Green Gables fame wrote, “Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”

(The Friday Funnies! (Originally published May 7, 2021.)