By Mel Cooke, Freelance Writer 
Grandfather and Son were two of the performers who got some laughs at Priscilla's comedy 'Laugh Again'. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
WESTERN BUREAU:
IT WAS a titter a second, a chuckle a minute and a bundle of laughs at Priscilla's on Constant Spring Road, as the Laugh Again series ended on a giggle for 2004.
Bobby 'Inspector Madden' Smith had the last laugh, after performances by Rumhead and Grandfather and Son, exchanging RPE (Royal Palm Estate, for the uninitiated) barbs with the night's host, Bello, for a smooth flow into his set.
Before introducing Smith, though, Bello got on a rib-tickler of his own, describing and illustrating a Jamaican man in New York walking 'pon de bias', as Blacka would say. He also illustrated a Jamaican woman 'looking' a man, pseudo shy smile and walking away just to ask her girlfriend 'im see me? Im see me?'
"New York girls come direct," Bello said. One such approached a Jamaican, took him back to her place, slipped into something more comfortable ("the thing call negligee, yu know it look like it neglect mos' of har body"), encouraging him over and over again to "do what you Jamaican guys do best". He eventually asked her if she wanted to be tied up, she cooed that she liked that, he duly lashed her and did what 'you Jamaican men do best'- "him tek har fridge, har stove, har TV, har cyar, de food in har cupboard..."
After setting a few things about RPE straight ("me run dung Tiney Winey because dem pay me"), Smith illustrated how seriously too seriously people take the series, telling the tall, true tale of an elderly woman in a supermarket in Ocho Rios who chastised him with a harddough bread while telling him "yu fi lef' Tiney Winey alone!" "I say 'chill out, is just acting!' She sey 'yu do it too good!'," Smith related.
INS AND OUTS OF CHEATING
It was the beginning of a riotous trip through the ins and outs of cheating; ("woman nah come home late. Dem do dat pon dem lunch time. Why yu tink so much traffic deh pon de road between 12:00 and 2:00 p.m.?") a couple trips to the doctor (one including a man who stammered badly because of 14 inches in a certain area and the operation to cure his speech impediment (which the doctor was happy to acquire) and the consequences of kicking the cat.
Smith got off a real thigh-slapper as he described three pastors discussing how they divided the collection between themselves and God. One said he tosses the collection in the air, what falls in the plate is God's what falls on the ground is his. The other said he did it the other way around, so that God gets more. The Roman Catholic priest said "I throw up everything. What the Lord wants he keeps."
With his voice changing to be the smooth talking priest, the stuttering 14-incher, the amorous Yankee woman, cheating woman and carnal doctor, Smith donned a famous voice, that of Edward Seaga, to retell a famous speech in Sam Sharpe Square and leave the stage with Priscilla's in an uproar of laughter.
Called back to give more Smith went on a riotous trip below the waist, the laughs coming thick and fast as he lived up to the philosophy he had mooted before coming off the first time- "If a gwine get in trouble, a might as well go the whole way."
