When we say something is truly smart, we are talking levity, not gravity. It's nothing veritable, just something that is superlatively clever.The swarm collected in the Lion's Civic Center in Woodbrook, last Friday night for the show Seriously Funny: Humor in Calypso, was there to adulate the work of veteran calypsonian Master Funny (Donric Williamson), a skilled lyricist whose imaginativeness has enabled him to dependably make superlatively tricky tunes as far back as 50 years.Hosted by the Sparrow: A Special Someone Committee, the undertaking highlighted presentations of Funny's tunes, and redirecting calypsoes of various troubadours, 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 Cipher's (Dillary Scott) amusing, however mind boggling, piece titled Papers.Swami was up next to render two of Funny's associations—the shocking Time Really Flies with the immense chorale: "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."
