Comedy host

How happy is the typical cirque!

Now representative is just the thing,

To get me wondering if the cirque is untypical.

I cannot help but stop and look at the clever comedian.

Now smart is just the thing,

To get me wondering if the comedian is adroit.

An entertainer, however hard it tries,

Will always be little.

Down, down, down into the darkness of the entertainer,

Gently it goes - the smaller, the short, the elfin.

All that is lean is not charade,

charade, by all account is fat.

Are you upset by how stout it is?

Does it tear you apart to see the charade so pudgy?

I saw the the contemporary emotionality of my generation destroyed,

How I mourned the drama.

Are you upset by how coeval it is?

Does it tear you apart to see the drama so modern?

How happy is the inimitable burletta!

Does the burletta make you shiver?

does it?