When we say something is s, we are talking levity, not gravity. It’s nothing serious, just something that’s superlatively clever.The audience gathered in the Lion’s Civic Centre in Woodbrook, last Friday night for the concert Seriously Funny: Humour in Calypso, was there to celebrate the work of veteran calypsonian Master Funny (Donric Williamson), a gifted songwriter whose creativity has enabled him to consistently produce superlatively clever songs for the past 50 years.Hosted by the Sparrow: A Special Someone Committee, the programme featured performances of Funny’s songs, and humorous calypsoes of other bards, by David Bereaux, Swami (Randolph Galt), Temples (Nigel Galt), Kid Kallaloo (Julien Hunte), Black Sage (Phillip Murray), The G Man (Graham Gellizeau), Tuffy (Roger Murray), Roderick Chuck Gordon (Roderick Gordon), and Trinidad Rio (Daniel Browne).Bereaux opened the playbill doing Funny’s Check Up (1970) and the late Cypher’s (Dillary Scott) funny, but complex, composition titled Papers.Swami was up next to render two of Funny’s compositions—the amazing Time Really Flies with the classic chorus: “Day before yesterday was yesterday, yesterday. Yesterday was today, yesterday. Today was tomorrow yesterday. Tomorrow today go be yesterday. Day after tomorrow, tomorrow, will be yesterday.”
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